PDF Picture Boxes Show Bad Fit???

[neilmclaren]

Hi there,
please help me,
Some of the pdfs I print from quark six contain picture boxes with a white gap along one edge. There is no reason for this as there is plenty of overlap on the quark file picture box. I've tried several different width frames and other options, but the gap always remains, is not on every picture, but on enough to be a real pain.
I hope somebody has an idea how to solve this,
thanks Neil

 

[MarcusStringer]

On the inside or the outside of the picture box?
Have you checked you trap information?

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[neilmclaren]

on the inside, between the picture and the frame, the picture boxes are set up as process black, so you can't change the trapping on the frame at least.

thanks

neil

 

[MarcusStringer]

Just checking...But the picture is not smaller than the picture box but any chance? You may not see it in the low res preview which Quark uses

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[neilmclaren]

I'd say there's a good overlap of about 10 mm which is constant all round the image, yet the gap only appears on one side.
thanks,
Neil

 

[MarcusStringer]

Um...maybe the image is an eps with a clipping path around it.
If not...then I've run out of suggestions sorry.

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[MyFavoriteLetterIsB]

Which kind of image file is it, and what type of preview is it saved with? It seems like i read here that saving with a tif preview helped.

B

 

[neilmclaren]

It was a CMYK eps, but I have since tried it as a tiff and the problem is still there. I have tried printing the image in separate document, in different picture boxes, but the gap is always there. Its actually on more boxes than I first thought too. Maybe this is a problem that occurs at pdf and not as a result of anything in quark, we've just upgraded to osx and quark 6, and we have had a few problems with the connectivity with our pre-press setup.Anyway, I'm totally out of ideas...


neil

 

[premediatech]

The pics you placed in picture boxes didn't happen to be rotated inside the box were they??

 

[neilmclaren]

no they're all straight.

 

[neilmclaren]

for anyone still interested, I have found this problem to only occur when the document is shrunk in the print style. This is a real problem as half the pdfs I produce need to be created at two sizes, 100% and 74%.

 

[MarcusStringer]

Is the line there when you print the document? Or only when you view it in Acrobat?
Have you tried reducing the size of the PDF?
That is, PDF your 100% file, open in Acrobat, then print to Postscript from Acrobat at the reduced size 74%.
Is the line there when you print from Quark at the reduced size or when you print from PDF?

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[neilmclaren]

When I print from quark to a laser printer at a reduced size, there is no gap. When I print to pdf or print from the pdf there is a gap. I can shrink the 100% pdf in acrobat and there is no gap, so the problem must occur when the image is resized and placed while spooling.
thanks, neil

 

[MarcusStringer]

Have you tried to output to film or another proofing device.
I'm starting to think that it could be just one of those things and that it affects the proof but not the actual output to film or plate...

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au