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Problems Exporting Placed PSD with Transparent Background

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    • May 28, 2013 at 11:18 pm #33721
      Angelo Outlaw
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      Hi everyone, I’ve been lurking for awhile but this is my first real post. I’ve been running into an export problem that I am hoping to get a little help with.

      I have created a trifold brochure, and on the cover of the brochure I placed a PSD file of a dog with the background masked out so that it is transparent. I am trying to export it to a press-ready PDF (PDF/X-4:2010, Acrobat 7 (PDF 1.6)) and for some reason the linked PSD file does not show up in Preview on a Mac. Acrobat opens the file fine, but I am sure that sooner of later someone will try to open it on a Mac and wonder why the cover is blank.

      Exporting the file to a PDF/X-1a file does work, so technically I have a solution. But doesn’t it seem strange that it would work in an older standard and not the newer one?

      I have narrowed the problem down to transparency. When I link a PSD with a mask on it, the exported PDF no longer shows the file when viewed in Preview.

      Thanks for your time!

    • May 29, 2013 at 5:12 pm #33736
      Bob Rubey
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      <<Exporting the file to a PDF/X-1a file does work, so technically I have a solution. But doesn?t it seem strange that it would work in an older standard and not the newer one?>>

      No, not really. PDF/x1a is basically a “lowest common denominator” format. Your image is being flattened, so the fact that Preview will display the image is no surprise.

      Yes, sooner or later someone will try to open the X4 on a Mac using Preview, but since Reader is free, I’d just point them toward the Adobe site and be done with it.

    • May 29, 2013 at 8:58 pm #33738
      Angelo Outlaw
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      Thanks for the reply, Bob. Yes the venerable X-1a definitely works. I was hoping to create a file that wasn’t flattened, but admittedly it isn’t holding up my work. At this point it’s a nice-to-have. I was just trying to understand the mechanism that prevents the transparent PSD from showing up in some programs versus Acrobat.

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