LZW compression in PageMaker

[Jana333]

Hello!

I have placed over 150 BW illustrations into the PageMaker 7.0.1, using the LZW compression in PM. When I print compressed illustrations, a light grey frame appears around them. I don't see them on the screen in PM, but they become visible in pdf files. Frames are also visible when documents are printed. I have contacted the Adobe distributor in Slovenia, and they are not really sure how to solve this. The frame is not visible on a postscript print, but they told me that I might anayway have problems, when I send the book to printing.

Is there any trick to make these frames disappear? The easy way out would be to not use the compession (then there are no grey frames), but that will give me a lot of extra work + I am not sure if my computer can handle such huge files.

Any ideas will be most wellcome,

Jana, Slovenia (Europe)

 

[Eggles]

You know the answer - don't use the compression. I am not sure I understand 'using the LZW compression in PM' - do you mean you compressed the graphics (presumably TIFs?) in Photoshop before you placed them in PM?

Regarding the huge files - make sure you LINK NOT EMBED the graphics files, then the PM file will not become too big. Just make sure if you send the native PM file to the printer, to also send along the graphics files (and the fonts). If making a PDF from the PM file, you don't have to have the graphics embedded - PM will automatically include them in the PDF. If you already have embedded the graphics, you will have to go through and unembed them all.