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Shape drawn in ID not converting to PDF

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    • June 17, 2013 at 9:14 am #33931
      Gina Garcia
      Member

      Can anyone help? I’ve drawn a shape in ID6 using the pen and convert direction point tools. I then added a photo to the shape and added a directional shadow to the shape. When I export the file – that contains this shape -to a PDF, the shape gets converted to a rectangle.

      I tried adding the shadow to the shape and then also to the image within the shape. Both – when exported to PDF – gets converted to a rectangle. I also tried several different PDF settings with no luck there either.

      Has anyone else experienced this problem or know of another work-around?

    • June 17, 2013 at 9:17 am #33932
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      That is very odd. Are you opening the PDF in acrobat or reader or OS Preview or something else?

    • June 17, 2013 at 9:18 am #33933
      Gina Garcia
      Member

      Hey David.

      I’m opening the PDF with Acrobat Pro.

    • June 17, 2013 at 9:25 am #33934
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      What kind of image did you put in there? Is there any chance you placed a movie file by accident?!

    • June 17, 2013 at 9:29 am #33935
      Gina Garcia
      Member

      Nope – definitely a PSD. I do have an EPS butting up next to it. Might that have something to do with it?

    • June 17, 2013 at 9:32 am #33936
      Gina Garcia
      Member

      Hummm – think I just figured it out. I duplicated the shape and placed it away from the EPS that is above it and the duplicated shape converted fine in the PDF. Now, how do I get the two to like each other?????

    • June 17, 2013 at 9:33 am #33937
      Gina Garcia
      Member

      Is there any way to send you a screen shot or the PDF? Doesn’t seem like I can add an image to this post.

    • June 17, 2013 at 9:48 am #33938
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      re: screen shot: You’d have to put it on flickr or image shack or someplace and link to it here; sorry.

      But if the duplicate works, then maybe delete the original and use the duplicate? Maybe it’s just some kind of corruption?

    • June 17, 2013 at 10:18 am #33939
      Gina Garcia
      Member

      The only reason the duplicate worked is because I moved it away from the EPS image. I think it’s something that the EPS is doing to the shape.

    • June 17, 2013 at 10:22 am #33940
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      Can you check to which Acrobat *version* you are exporting? The lower versions don’t support combinations of buttons and transparency (heaven knows why). Usually you get a reminder about that on exporting, but I think it’s one of those warnings you can click to “Never show again”.

      You can try upping the Acrobat version to the max and see if that helps.

    • June 17, 2013 at 10:32 am #33941
      Gina Garcia
      Member

      I found my work-around. I went back to my original EPS file that the shape in ID was next to. In Illustrator, I saved the same EPS file as an Illustrator file. Re-imported it into my ID file and now the shape is exporting fine to PDF. So the EPS was the problem for whatever the reason.

    • June 17, 2013 at 10:34 am #33942
      Gina Garcia
      Member

      Jongware – I’m using Acrobat X.

      Thanks Dave an Jongware for letting me “talk” this one through.

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