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2. Re: "transparent" bounding boxes appear when printing from InDesign and Acrobat
P Spier Jun 21, 2011 8:15 AM (in response to tategraphics)Solid areas of lighter color (see what Bob said), or white lines outlining the area? those are called stitching and are a flattening artifact tha show up on screen and in low-resolution prints. Can your RIP handle live tranparency?
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3. Re: "transparent" bounding boxes appear when printing from InDesign and Acrobat
tategraphics Jun 21, 2011 9:20 AM (in response to P Spier)Solid areas of lighter color. I am not sure if our rip can handle live transparency. It is a Fiery 8e Release 2. I tried a solution from a previous post that suggested de-selecting the Pantone match option when I print and that did work.
The PDF's are high res. It has even happened on some PDF's that were created through Distiller as high res. I have seen this at the print shop I work at and also at the college where I teach design.
Thanks so much for your quick response.
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4. Re: "transparent" bounding boxes appear when printing from InDesign and Acrobat
tategraphics Jun 21, 2011 9:21 AM (in response to BobLevine)I will check this link out...thanks so much for your quick response.
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5. Re: "transparent" bounding boxes appear when printing from InDesign and Acrobat
P Spier Jun 21, 2011 9:48 AM (in response to tategraphics)What you are seeing is caused by the RIP treating raster and vector data differently (explained in the link) and is a result of flattening. It is not related in any way to the resolutions of the images inside the PDF. Distilled PDF is ALWAYS flattened, so you want to export if your RIP can handle the live transparency (do a test). If turning off the Pantone matching solves the probelm, that is probably the best solution, but for the record I wouldn't specify spot colors for anything that wasn't destined for press.


