Photoshop PDF vs. Illustrator PDF and InDesign PDF

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lark1000
Sep 13, 2006
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I receive PDF files from various people that all have their own ways of making them. Occationally a PDF will view differently on one computer vs. another and sometimes it can be pretty drastic! Many times i dont find out till its too late and the item has been printed.

I recently had one PDF that I dont know how it was made but looked fine on one of my computers but the other had a big white square around an image that was on it. I found of i opened the PDF in Photoshop and resaved it on top of itself, i didnt have that problem anymore and it still kept its clean look (unlike converting to TIF or something). I only did this with one PDF and was wondering if this is a good idea to do with all my PDF’s to insure that they will always view correctly (dont need to be reedited).

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Bob Levine
Sep 13, 2006
Sounds like it was created in InDesign with a spot color interacting with transparency.

Bob
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lark1000
Sep 13, 2006
well sometimes its not just that, sometimes text will move completly, or font is different, or just anything that just seems way not right. sometimes it is a transparancy issue too but not always. I just have a ton of PDF files that Ill have to use soon and im thinking if i resave them all in Photoshop, the chances are better that there wont be any screwups

I LOVE PDF’s but i still have a problem totally trusting them
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Gustavo Sanchez
Sep 13, 2006
I just have a ton of PDF files that Ill have to use soon and im thinking if i resave them all in Photoshop, the chances are better that there wont be any screwups.

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Bob Levine
Sep 13, 2006
Either that or Quite a Box of Tricks.

Bob
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Christine_Krof_Shock
Sep 15, 2006
or get rid of the corrupt/cheap/free fonts, or have people rasterize or outline the corrupt/cheap/free fonts before they create a native PDF, also have them save to at least Acrobat 6, and preferably Acrobat 7, never let them save to Acrobat 4/PDFx 1.3-4 without flattening transparency, etc…..

What we have started to do is create the PDF settings we want for each application that works with our specific RIP and Printer and then email the PDF Setup Preset out…

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