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A couple of days ago I was producing my first piece of artwork for a professional newspaper and with no formal training the attempts were a case of hit or miss.
All was going well until I got to the point of exporting as a PDF using Adobe Distiller and I came across a strange problem where blocks of random text would vanish and there would be no indication of the text on the page at all. I tried several things to fix this but as I was using specific settings from the newspaper, I didn’t have much to go on.
Browsing a few of the newsgroups I saw that this was a problem a while back yet I couldn’t find a good solution so I scratched my head about it for a while then it hit me.
I was designing the advert in CMYK since that would be how it is printed (another requirement of the newspaper) and the shade of black I was using was, according to the CMYK colour picker, closer to green (combo of yellow and cyan) than anything else. I found this bizarre and selected a different shade of black from the colour picker, this time closer to Cyan. The result in Photoshop was that the text looked surrounded by a bluish hint but on exporting using distiller, the text all appears and comes out fully black. Printed out it is spot on.
Just thought I’d post this since I know I struggled for a while and I’d be sure glad if there’d been a solution ^_^
Image I was working on was a 300DPI photoshop document made in Photoshop 7.0 on windows XP, distiller was version 5.0. acrobat reader was version 5.0
All was going well until I got to the point of exporting as a PDF using Adobe Distiller and I came across a strange problem where blocks of random text would vanish and there would be no indication of the text on the page at all. I tried several things to fix this but as I was using specific settings from the newspaper, I didn’t have much to go on.
Browsing a few of the newsgroups I saw that this was a problem a while back yet I couldn’t find a good solution so I scratched my head about it for a while then it hit me.
I was designing the advert in CMYK since that would be how it is printed (another requirement of the newspaper) and the shade of black I was using was, according to the CMYK colour picker, closer to green (combo of yellow and cyan) than anything else. I found this bizarre and selected a different shade of black from the colour picker, this time closer to Cyan. The result in Photoshop was that the text looked surrounded by a bluish hint but on exporting using distiller, the text all appears and comes out fully black. Printed out it is spot on.
Just thought I’d post this since I know I struggled for a while and I’d be sure glad if there’d been a solution ^_^
Image I was working on was a 300DPI photoshop document made in Photoshop 7.0 on windows XP, distiller was version 5.0. acrobat reader was version 5.0
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