Unwanted lines when converting Publisher to PDF 1

[Tomas6750]

I'm trying to convert a 63 page book that looks and prints fine in publisher to a PDF file using Adobe Acrobat Standard. I get lines apprearing in the PDF file around and through the graphics in the booklet. I've tried every adjustment in Acrobat i can think of. Has anyone had this situation before? I think the graphics are either all or mostly bim map (there are lots). Sometimes the lines just outline the graphics and sometimes they go through the graphics dividing it in quarters.

Any help is sincerely appreciated.

Thanks,
Tomas

 

[Eggles]

For a start, do you mean the graphics are in BMP format, or are bitmap/raster graphics? If you have used a format other than TIF (for raster) and EPS (for vector) then the postscripting process can gag. This is especially true if you use WMFs.

How are you making the PDF? Have you tried printing first 'to file' (which creates a postscipt file), then opening that file in Distiller and creating the PDF?

 

[Tomas6750]

Hi Eggles,
Thanks for your post.

The graphics were created from a music scoring program called Sibelius and are BMP (they are music instruction books).

I've tried converting to a postscript file using the Generic Color PS Pronting for Commercial Printer print driver and opening it in Adobe Acrobat but the same lines appear.

I just tried several times to print to file using this driver and my printer driver. Adobe doesn't recognize the file. When I try to print to file using the Adobe PDF driver I get an error message saying: "When you create a Postscript file you have to send the host fonts. Please go to the printer properties "Adobe PDF Settings" and turn OFF the option "Do Not Send Fonts to Distiller".

I have looked everywhere for this setting and cannot find it.

Tomas

 

[Eggles]

Tomas

Some suggestions:

1. Do you have any photo editing software that could convert those BMP files to TIF? Much smaller files too. Probably the free Irfanview could do it for you, and you may have better luck converting to PDF.

2. Try choosing Distiller as your postscript printer.

>>Please go to the printer properties "Adobe PDF Settings" and turn OFF the option "Do Not Send Fonts to Distiller".<<

Try this. Go to Start>Settings>Printers, highlight Distiller, right click and choose Properties from the list (or go to File>Properties) and select the Adobe PDF tab. In Distiller 5, the selection "Do Not Send Fonts to Distiller".
is first on the list. Uncheck it.

 

[Tomas6750]

Hi Eggles,
I found the "Do Not Send Fonts to Acrobat". Thanks!

I did change all the graphics to TIFF. I tested it by changing one graphic first and it worked. I thought that would do it but when now about 70% of the graphics have the lines and the other 30% do not. I can't see any difference between the ones that have the lines and the ones that don't. They are all TIFF and have similar properties.

I also tried turning off the compression on the distiller with no change.

I tried choosing Acrobat as the Postscript printer also. When I open it in Acrobat the lines are there again.

Tomas

 

[Eggles]

I'm just about out of suggestions but one last thing...

Are there any places in the file you have underlined text?

Finally, have a look at FAQ 1.8 on the Adobe User to user forums (

http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html)

for Windows Pagemaker. The following is the link, but I can never get these to come out properly.

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?50@251.4QIycCboV4N.1391157@.ef8523c/0

 

[Tomas6750]

I gave it a try, Eggles, but no luck. I really appreciate the time and effort you've spent to help me solve this. I did post it on the Adobe Acrobat forum as well.

Thanks again,

Tomas

 

[eurodolphin]

Tomas, did you ever get a solution to the problem of blank line in pdf graphics? I have exactly the same problem. I have two tiff graphics in a Publisher 2000 document and when I convert to PDF using Acrobat 6, one of them has horizontal white lines breaking it up.

 

[Tomas6750]

I never did resolve this problem. I ended up using a service that could print the document from the Publisher file. More costly. I'd like to figure this out for the future.

Tomas