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• • May 11, 2020 at 5:06 am #1249706
    Yats Try

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    Hello,

    This has happened to me several times and I don’t know where the problem comes from. I thought I could insert screenshots in the post but I’ll explain.
    I have in this page a single layer and the elements in order from below to above are: background image, text, png picture with transparency.
    When I insert the transparent picture, the text suddenly appears “bold” or thicker. Whenever I delete the picture, the text returns to its original appearance.
    The opacity of every of these 3 elements is set at 100%.
    Any idea?

  • May 11, 2020 at 5:43 am #1249735
    Dieter Stockert

    Member

    I don’t know if this helps but have you tried to place the text frames on a separate layer on top of the other layers?

  • May 11, 2020 at 5:48 am #1249745
    Yats Try

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    Yes, I’ve tried that but nothing changes

  • May 11, 2020 at 6:14 am #1249775
    Aaron Troia

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    Hey Marcos,

    I believe I have seen what you are talking about, I don’t deal with it everyday but it pops up occasionally, even on printed material. You are correct that it has to do with the transparency (I believe if you open Flattener Preview under Output and select either Transparent Objects or All Affected Objects, the PNGs should show up in red). Off the top of my head I don’t know a simple solution besides converting to a flattened file like JPG (have you tried PSD? I’m not sure that will fix anything as the images will still have transparency) so that might not really be a solution since you have a background image.

  • May 11, 2020 at 6:29 am #1249795
    Marc Verhaegen

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    Always put text on top. Text that is placed under transparency will get pixelated.

  • May 11, 2020 at 7:08 am #1249835
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    As others have pointed out, this is usually due to “transparency flattening” for older printers (or when you export to an old PDF version, such as “acrobat 4”. If you export to PDF/X-4, and your printer has a RIP that can handle this, then you should not have this problem anymore.

    Tim Cole and Rufus Deuchler did a very funny video about this many years ago:
    https://indesignsecrets.com/stop-the-transparencide.php

  • May 11, 2020 at 8:20 am #1249855
    Yats Try

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    I found the solution! Since the document I’m working on is meant to be send via online and not to be printed, I went to Edit > Transparency Blend Space and set it to RGB. Then, when exporting the document to pdf, it appeared a yellow triangle warning something like “preset specifies source profiles don’t match the current color settings file. The profiles specified by the color settings file will be used.” I went to Output > Color > No color conversion and the warning disappeared and the document exported well and with the text looking fine.

    To be honest I don’t know what I did correctly since I don’t quite understand the whole thing.

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