RE: Problem Creating PDFs with Graphics Containing Transparencies

["Giordano, Connie" <Connie -dot- Giordano -at- FMR -dot- COM>]

Isis,

In my experience,  graphics with transparences do not PDF well.  I don't use
Frame, but when I tried this in Word with transparent graphics I had similar
problems. It may be somewhere in Adobe documentation, but I have yet to find
it.  I just discovered it from experience. You may need to make the graphics
non-transparent to get them to work properly.

Just a thought, I hope it helps.

Connie P. Giordano
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-----Original Message-----
From: Erb, Isis [mailto:isis -dot- erb -at- ipc -dot- com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 8:34 AM
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Subject: Problem Creating PDFs with Graphics Containing Transparencies



Hello Folks,

Forgive me for cross-posting, but I need to cover as wide an audience as
possible for this one! (whimper)

I come to throw myself upon your tender mercies and beg for assistance! I am
having a problem that has left me sitting in a mostly vegetative state,
incapable of focusing on anything else...

I am creating a PDF using Acrobat Distiller 5.0, from your basic Frame 7.0
file. I create the .ps file first, then run Distiller to create the PDF.
Everything looks fine and I get no errors in the log - yet two graphics I
have (Illustrator 9.0) that contain transparencies do not print correctly.
Where the transparencies are prints as white boxes - not gray, white. And
the graphics also are in color in the PDF, even when I have checked off Spot
Color as Black/White in the Frame Print Document dialog, in addition to
setting the Distiller options to Black & White.

I am working with Win 2K, 256 MB RAM ( I know the memory is waaaay to low,
but it is what I have to work with for now).

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated!!!

Isis Erb
Technical Writer
IPC Information Systems, Inc.
Isis -dot- Erb -at- ipc -dot- com


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