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Problem exporting file with spot colors to pdf

Jun 28, 2012 3:40 PM

I have a book which I designed in InDesign CS3. It has 150 images in it which are Photoshop eps files: black line drawings with a spot color fill. InCS3, when I needed to send files back and forth to the publisher, the eps files came out fine in any pdf I made. Now in CS5.5, no matter what I do, only the spot color shows up in the images -- their black outlines won't show up. I'm sure it's got something to do with settings of some kind but I can't figure it out for the life of me. Help!

672 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: Bob Levine, Jun 29, 2012 6:55 AM
 
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  • Steve Werner
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    1. Steve Werner,
    Jun 28, 2012 3:51 PM   in reply to KrishnaGopa
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    In which application are you viewing the PDF? What version? Is Overprint Preview turned on?

     
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    2. KrishnaGopa,
    Jun 28, 2012 4:45 PM   in reply to Steve Werner
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    I'm viewing the pdf in Acrobat Pro X. I do see that if I turn Flattener Preview on, I can see the whole image in a separate preview box, but that's not going to work very well when I send it to an editor who is technologically challenged. Is there not a way to ake the pdf behave the way it does if I make it from CS3, where the flattening shows in the pdf by default? As it is, this seems like a step backwards, unless of course, there's something I am missing.

     
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    3. KrishnaGopa,
    Jun 28, 2012 4:46 PM   in reply to KrishnaGopa
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    Ok! Found it! Acrobat: Prefeernces: Page Display: Use overprint preview: Always

     

    Thank you for spurring me on to find this...

     
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    4. Bob Levine,
    Jun 29, 2012 6:55 AM   in reply to KrishnaGopa
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    Why are you using Photoshop EPS? Just save as PSD and be done with ti.

     

    Bob

     
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