So I just got a note from the production manager for my ID CS4 VQS book.
They had some problems with an image on a page that they said they couldn’t convert to greyscale.
There are two strange things about this.
First, the image was already greyscale, so they shouldn’t have had to convert it.
Second, the image was a PDF with layers that were created from an ID file.
The problem was that I used layer overrides to show different aspects of the layers.
I suspect that this PDF with layers was confusing the print shop.
However, I realized that I had also been too clever for my own work.
When I exported the PDF with layers from ID, I neglected to save that original ID file. Therefore when I needed to change things for the print shop I had problems in that I only had the PDF.
While I do own Recosoft’s PDF2ID, I forgot all about it.
So I ended up rasterizing the PDF layers by exporting them as TIFFs from the document. (Arrggghhh!)
But the moral of the story is, “SAVE YOU ORIGINAL ID FILES” if you use them to place PDFs in other work.
And the wish list of the story is, I want a button in the Export as PDF dialog box for CS5 that says “Maintain original ID file editability.”
That would avoid the problem entirely!
This article was last modified on December 19, 2021
This article was first published on October 22, 2008
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