2 Replies Latest reply: Jul 25, 2011 5:40 AM by plutonak RSS

    bounding box and pdf export

    plutonak Community Member

      Hi all,

       

      I'm using Illustrator CS4 and I have interest in the bounding box of a figure when I export it as a pdf. I'm using the crop area tool (also called ArtBoard, ToolShift+O) to set-up by hand the bounding box and then export the figure as a pdf. The problem is that I can observe spurious small white margins in the exported pdf. It seems that the bounding box is not perfectly set-up. Are you aware of this problem? Is there a work-around?

       

      Thank you

        • 1. Re: bounding box and pdf export
          Mylenium CommunityMVP

          I don't think there is per se any problem nor is AI doing anything wrong. Sounds like your bog standard antialiasing/ transparency blending, if elements are not placed and shaped in such a way that their rasterized output perfectly coincides with whole pixels plus the usual issues with trapping, overprint etc., which Acrobat will obey based on its own settings and the properties defined in your AI document and which particularly become relevant if blending modes, partial opacity and raster effects are involved. You need to look into those things more than anything else and find the right combination of settings...

           

          Mylenium

          • 2. Re: bounding box and pdf export
            plutonak Community Member

            thanks.