PDF Problem

[Flyingfisher9]

My PDF I saved from the last post problem I had prints fine off of my mac, but terrible when I print it from my office PC. Any ideas on how I can fix it so it will print fine from the PC (the dept. print shop uses PC).

Any suggestions would be great. I am really frustrated and need this to go to print.

 

[dmacster]

Are the fonts embedded or subset? Same with any graphics - linked or embedded?

 

[Flyingfisher9]

The fonts are fine, it looks like you can see where the transparency (I have two vector photoshop images in my doc) is draining the color out of the grey box, I have where they are over lapping.

 

[itchybug]

Will:

If all else fails, you can fight your way out by rasterizing the whole thing into one large raster image, and print that...

It's not a solution, but it may get you out of the bind you're in...

Bert

Bert Philippus -

http://www.itchybug.com

 

[Flyingfisher9]

I opened the ai file in Photoshop and saved it as a tiff. I then printed and it looks like it lost alot of quality but the halo is gone.

If there a way to keep the same quality?

 

[itchybug]

Will:

Rasterize it from Illustrator, because when you open it in Photoshop it will render at 72 dpi resulting in loss of quality. Export as a tiff from Illustrator at 300 dpi or more for good results.

Bert

Bert Philippus -

http://www.itchybug.com

 

[Flyingfisher9]

Will do, I wasn't aware that you could export a tiff in Illus. I am newer to it, but I love the software.

 

[itchybug]

File>Export, then choose your format from the drop list. You can also rasterize in Illustrator and then save as a pdf, keeping in mind the pdf will be large...

Bert Philippus -

http://www.itchybug.com

 

[Flyingfisher9]

yeah...I sent the TIFF to print, keep your fingers crossed.
Will the file loose print quality?

 

[NFAY]

FlyingFisher9

When you go to print from Illy and you look at the SUMMARY are there any warnings like "Document Effect Raster Resolution is 72 dpi or less" or "Document contains artwork that requires flattening"?

If so you probably need to flatten before printing. Check your Transparency Flattening Presets if you haven't (under Edit). You may need to change something in there if you haven't. You will also want to set your Raster Effect Settings under Effects if you haven't.

You should not lose resolution in a tiff if you choose "high" or "other" and make that 400 dpi (this would depend on your printer and what it can handle I would suspect). I send ads as CYMK tiffs to magazines and they print just fine. The files are BIG however You could also try exporting as PDF or EPS.

If you flatten and get rid of ALL warning messages in the print summary, I would "think" that it should work better.

Good luck.

 

[NFAY]

An addendumL

What I meant to say was that once you have looked at all those problem places, it might work as a pdf file. Including the color profiles might also help going from one computer (and platform) to another.

 

[Flyingfisher9]

Here is the latest. The pink halo was finally exercised from my document, after I saved it as a TIFF file (sent it as a TIFF at 400 DPI). When I got the proof back from print, the quality looked blurry. I can't save as a PDF because it prints the pink halo. Any other ideas, or do you think that I might be saving the TIFF incorrectly?

Thanks

 

[itchybug]

Will:

Try sending it as a tiff with anti-aliasing turned off.

Bert

Bert Philippus -

http://www.itchybug.com

 

[NFAY]

I don't see anywhere in this post that you FLATTENED your document before making it into a 400 dpi tiff.

You also need to set your Flattening setting at 400 - 2400 when flattening and sellect everything that needs flattening (I do the whole document as use lots of effects).

This was mentioned before in my earlier post.

Since I send 400 dpi tiffs from AI to magazines using this method and they are NOT blurry, I suspect that may be your problem.

Also are you sending as a CMYK tiff? Did you make the file in CMYK?

Nikki Fay

http://www.faystudios.com

 

[NFAY]

Also -

Is your tiff file the size it needs to be printed? Remember a tiff is no longer vector so you can't "blow it up" and expect it to look good.

There is more info on printing problems that might be helpful at:

[URL unfurl="true"]http://faystudios.com/illustrator/faq-print.cfm [/url]

Nikki Fay

http://www.faystudios.com