distortion when importing a tif or psd file and saving to a pdf

[watashee]

This problem is driving me crazy, I hope there is a guru here with the solution!
In corel draw 9, when I import a psd of tif file (formatted in cymk) with a transparent background and lay it over type or another like graphic, box or anything I get a distortion where the edge of the graphic lays over any object, when I save as a pdf file. It's the object that it lays over that has the distortion, a little jog in the edge of it. If I bring everything to the front it works ok, but I need to be able to have these images lay over things, obviously.
When I save the pdf to send to a publisher I save it as cmyk, inbed all fonts, 800dpi.
It's only when I save it to a pdf file, although I save them as nothing else. On the screen it looks fine.

 

[Brushman]

Try this. Put file in Corel Paint - resave and import that into Draw, if the problem is resolved than maybe a Photoshop thing if no different, don't know sorry. You mention fonts, try saving fonts as curves when making a pdf and also try making a pdf with Jaws/Acrobat or similar, trial downloads are available, I use Acrobat V5 for pdf creation rather than Corel's export I prefer the flexibility.
Alan

 

[watashee]

Thanks for replying. I did try the photo-paint thing and had the same problem, very strange. When you create a pdf in acrobat, does it just take the cdr file and convert it?
Or is there a trick to it?

 

[Brushman]

Acrobat and Jaws (and others) create pdf in a similar way as a printer driver is added to your printers. You then print to that 'printer' and you are prompted for a name, usually the same as the file name but with a pdf extension, save/print/ok then produces a pdf and if set will run Reader so you can see the result. Advantage of this is that changing the 'printer page' size you can take advantage of Corel's excellent print engine regarding cropmarks, imposition, multi-up, separation etc, so what you see in print preview is what you get in your pdf. Acrobat has the advantage that a pdf you may receive from others that will not import into Draw can be converted to eps which will import into Draw, this may or may not be worth the extra cost depending on you work/workflow.
Alan

 

[watashee]

I have acrobat, need to install it. I doubt it will fix the prob, tho. I think it may be a vector/bitmap issue.
Something must work tho, what good would CD be if it has this problem? All the more reason I think it's a operator error issue, lol. I sure need to figure it out though.

 

[watashee]

Well, I loaded up Acrobat 6.0 and It seems to have solved the problem! The one issue I'm having trouble with is making sure that all fonts are embedded, since I use true type and this all gets done on a mac at Donnelly Publishing.
I can't seem to find the font control panel that is shown in the help section! Maybe it just shows up when one makes a pdf file from a proper file format and not from the print to pdf format when making a pdf fron a corel file.
Any ideas?
Thanks a bunch for the help, I think you have me on the right track!!
T

 

[Brushman]

I'm on Acrobat V5 and in that when you print - properties (to the right of printer destination) Adobe pdf settings tab - edit conversion settings - fonts tab
Alan