[posted in both the Photoshop and InDesign forums, as I’m not sure where
the problem originates]
I’ve been experiencing some significant spooling issues printing Photoshop PDFs with vector data, and I was hoping someone might have some insight into this (and perhaps a solution).
Let’s say I’m starting out with Photoshop files with live text layers. I save them as Photoshop PDFs (preserving vector data; retaining layers or not makes no difference to what’s going on) and place into InDesign for output. Here’s where the problem ocurrs: some files seems to take forever to spool, sometimes as much as 5-10 minutes, even though the files themselves are not that large (perhaps 5-8 MB per PDF, four placed into a layout for a total of 24MB of data) – a similar sized PSD or TIFF placed into InDesign spools as expected, no more than ten seconds or so.
Any idea why this is happening? Or if there is another route to take to preserve the vector data in these Photoshop files? (Saving as PSD or EPS with vector data doesn’t work; I’m not sure if it’s Photoshop, InDesign or the RIP that is at fault but the vector data is treated as raster when saving in these formats, unlike saving as a PDF from Photoshop whereby the vector data is recognized as such by the RIP and rasterized at 2400dpi accordingly.)
Thanks!
Brian
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