So Im doing a brochure for Air Lift Suspension. Been ripping pdf's for them to proof. Suddenly last night one of the 24 page pdf's the colors go all mute. I've seen this happen before where subset text was outside a cropped text box. Preflight/scan document no issues. Onto something else.
Here you can see an example of what i'm talking about. Left is the resolved issue mock, right is with the issue apparent
Their previous catalog files contained indesign drop shadows, transparencies, feathers and outer/inner glows. These seem to have a negative effect on ripping pdf's by muting the colors on the output side. I had to completely rebuild the document piece by piece ripping a new pdf each time I added some component art from the existing file. Doing this allowed me to see how the output fared as i returned each component to the new file until I could eliminate exactly what was causing the issue.
I had even gone as far as converting any unused colors in the swatches/palette to spot colors, going into the separations turning the cmyk colors off so just the spot colors remained. Then making sure that nothing in the file was using the spot color and changing it to the cmyk color. That didnt seem to effect it at all.
It turns out that any of the effects added in indesign would mute the color while ripping to pdf. There werent any overprint/non-printing attributes in the attributes panel either. Once I eliminated all the effects and re-drew the shapes/art and pasted into a new document with all the base photos/copy the issue seems to have gone away.
Typically I have never used any effects in indesign natively simply because of issues. Have you guys experienced this anywhere in the past(I noticed there were alot of indesign native effects being used).
It's a new one for me that literally had me working the last 12 hours to fix.
Here you can see an example of what i'm talking about. Left is the resolved issue mock, right is with the issue apparent
Their previous catalog files contained indesign drop shadows, transparencies, feathers and outer/inner glows. These seem to have a negative effect on ripping pdf's by muting the colors on the output side. I had to completely rebuild the document piece by piece ripping a new pdf each time I added some component art from the existing file. Doing this allowed me to see how the output fared as i returned each component to the new file until I could eliminate exactly what was causing the issue.
I had even gone as far as converting any unused colors in the swatches/palette to spot colors, going into the separations turning the cmyk colors off so just the spot colors remained. Then making sure that nothing in the file was using the spot color and changing it to the cmyk color. That didnt seem to effect it at all.
It turns out that any of the effects added in indesign would mute the color while ripping to pdf. There werent any overprint/non-printing attributes in the attributes panel either. Once I eliminated all the effects and re-drew the shapes/art and pasted into a new document with all the base photos/copy the issue seems to have gone away.
Typically I have never used any effects in indesign natively simply because of issues. Have you guys experienced this anywhere in the past(I noticed there were alot of indesign native effects being used).
It's a new one for me that literally had me working the last 12 hours to fix.
