Boxes around drop shadows 1

[dkw007]

I work with one other artist and we both use InDesign. My version has always worked great and I have no complaints. But hers tends to draw boxes around items she has placed a drop shadow on when we try to make her files into PDFs. I have gone through and set her display performance to high quality but to no avail. If I create the file, it's fine. But if she does, both of us experience the same problems with creating PDFs. Any ideas?

 

[jimoblak]

What type of PDFs are being created? InDesign offers many different settings.

What version of Acrobat are you reading the PDFs in? Are these Acrobat programs set to 'smooth' in the preferences?

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[jmgalvin]

You might make sure that you have the Acrobat version compatability set to Version 5 or higher since 4 does not support transparency well.

If that doesn't fix it, come back and describe the setting on the pdf export.

Using OSX 10.3.8 on a G4

 

[LJNYC]

There's an article about this and other transparency related issues in the Free InDesignMagazine of July 2004. Must read for these drop shadow boxes.

http://www.indesignmag.com/idm/index.html

hope this helps.

 

[ken1001]

I went to the InDesign magazine website and all it showed was how to subscribe to the magazine. Did I miss something? Is there a way to get to the article that was mentioned by LJNYC?

thanks.

 

[LJNYC]

Look at back issues. When you scroll down to the July (or summer) 2004, the premier issue is free.
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