Reply To: Spot colors for press

@Eugene: it looks like Vincent2 has put a white box over the entire artwork and then applied a Tint of .1% and an Opacity of .01% to the entire white box, effectively making it overprint. after reading the post where the outlining fonts tip was posted by David Blatner, i think that Vincent2 has missed the bit where Dave said “off on the margin that will never be seen”.

In my work's workflow, a PDF made like this will fail to show the green as our RIP has a default function of making any overprinting white knockout, and i suspect thats what has happened to the OP's printer.

My suggestion was (and still is) don't bother outlining fonts when sending to printers who have modern level 3 RIPs.

@Vincent2: not meaning to refer to you in the third person there, but i would just not use the tip that david made. its a good tip but it has its place elsewhere, such as exporting pdfs to people that then open them up in software other than acrobat (i.e. corel draw or worse). the PDF/X settings embed subsets of the fonts, meaning it embeds only the letters of the fontset which were used in the actual artwork, but not the whole font.