Importing illustrator .eps with transparency

[shinykins1]

I have imported this logo which was created in Illustrator CS into InDesign CS (I'm using MacOS panther) but when I export it into a pdf file, the logo doesn't seem to maintain the transparency and multiply blending mode which the original illustrator .eps file has. Can anyone explain why?

 

[jimoblak]

How are you exporting to PDF? What settings? What version of Adobe Acrobat or Reader are you using?

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[jmgalvin]

Check your pdf export or Distiller settings. Set them to be compatible with Acrobat 5 (or later) and see if that works.

 

[shinykins1]

I am using Indesign to export the pdf. I have chosen to export the pdf to be compatible with Acrobat 5 but for some reason the logo is still coming much too dark. Also tried exporting it to be compatible with Acrobat 6 but it's still doing the same thing.

The actual logo itself was created in Illustrator CS with a multiply blending mode but with 100% opacity. Might it be that the pdf gives a much darker representation of the logo to what illustrator displays on screen?

 

[denice]

I would export your logo to PhotoShop, select the area that needs to be transparent and go to HELP>EXPORT TRANSPARENT IMAGE. Go through the wizard and save it as an EPS. This seems to work for me, although I think that InDesign has the ability to keep the transparency, I havent been able to figure out how. As an eps with the wizard created clipping path created, you should have no problem with Acrobat.
It may not the right way to do it, but it works.
~D

Denice
Mac OSX, Running Classic for Quark 4.1. System G4.

 

[jimoblak]

I would export your logo to PhotoShop

I would not. This destroys the crisp vector data.

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[chuppies]

Try editing your InDesign preferences>>>Display Performance
and slide the vector slider all the way to the right to High Resolution.

Or save your illustrator eps file with a tiff preview, for some reason InDesign's default does not handle mac previews correctly.

See

http://www.senecadesign.com/designgeek/dgarchives/designgeek37.php#vectorepsfix

 

[operamatic]

I would change the drop shadow in Illustrator from multiply to normal - multiply generally is a lot darker printing than on screen.

 

[tschatz]

I have to pull down the "View" menu to highlight "Overprint Preview" every time I make a PDF from InDesign or I get very strange things happening...white boxes behind Illustrator EPS's, shadows on these Illustrator files being the size and shape of the bounding box instead of the size and shape of the opaque areas.

Anyway, you might try activating "overprint preview". Note that you need to do this every time you open the file.