Whenever I try to export an Indesign file to PDF for printing, weird things happen. I have been able to get around this in the past by exporting to JPEG, but recently this has been causing printing problems. I need to be able to export to PDF to get the quality I want, as well as crop and bleed marks. I have attched a sample of my work. One is 'correct' in appearance, but doesn't have crop and bleed marks (JPEG). The other is 'incorrect' in appearance because it has faint lines surrounding all the objects in the Indesign file (text, images, strokes/lines), but does have the crop and bleed marks, and high quality (vector text etc..)(PDF). How do I solve this problem? I am using Adobe Indesign CS3.
PDF Export IssuesYour PDF is Acrobat 4. Try exporting using Acrobat 5 compatibility, this will eliminate white lines (flattening artifacts).
Your printer may demand a flat PDF (Acrobat 4 compatible). If so, send the PDF with the white lines. These shouldn't show up in the printing. You will notice if you zoom in when viewing the PDF the lines disappear.
You are correct not to send JPEG output for print production.
PDF Export IssuesThere's more than flattening artifacts going on in the PDF. That white stroke at the left trim guide is real and looks to be about a half a point thick.
It looks like there are two black filled rectangles with paper strokes next to each other over there.
Yes that rule is in the design. It should be deleted, it's right on the trim.
OP - if you have to flatten make sure you use a high resolution flattener preset. Also avoid using Photoshop EPS and Illustrator EPS link files.
Something like that. In the PDF there are no strokes, possibly strokes were converted to fills during flattening
Looks like in InDesign, it might be a box on the left hand page with a paper frame.
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