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• • May 11, 2016 at 12:20 pm #84798
    Robert Britton

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    Hi folks:

    I can’t figure out why this is happening. I hope this link doesn’t get removed. but look at this:

    https://robertbrittonjr.com/crazyboxes.png

    The item on the top is from the PDF export (High-quality) from InDesign.

    The item on the bottom is a screen shot from the source in InDesign.

    When I create the exported PDF, my printed output shows these ghost like boxes around the letters in the black bar. in Indesign, there’s a text box with the text sitting ontop of a couple graphics. When they are outputted and flattened via Acrobat DC (pro), those boxes show up. Sometimes, even if I don’t flatten, those boxes show up when printing.

    It’s driving me nuts. I don’t understand why text boxes and other elements with NO background in the source InDesign File are coming out with those light-grey ghosts.

    Help!

  • May 11, 2016 at 12:21 pm #84799
    Robert Britton

    Member

    PS. It’s the ghosting around the words “FROM GOD” in the black bar.

  • May 11, 2016 at 12:40 pm #84802
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    My guess it’s something like this: https://creativepro.com/eliminating-ydb-yucky-discolored-box-syndrome.php

  • May 11, 2016 at 1:52 pm #84808
    Robert Britton

    Member

    Thank you. I’m going even deeper down the rabbit hole now.

    That link worked to help me fix the problem.

    I’m trying to understand why YDB shows up anyways. It just makes no sense. I used the Flattener preview and I can see where my text is around images with transparent objects (near, or on top of). That’s exactly where the YDBs are showing up.

    So one isn’t to put text over graphics with transparent backgrounds without getting YDB? How’s that suppose to work? I overlay objects with transparent backgrounds frequently.

    Seems like a bug in InDesign to me. Just crazy.

    Anyways, his tip of using less vector and more raster worked. I created my own flattener preset and the issue went away. But in reading the comments, 1) it seems like it’ll make a larger file, and 2) breaks the benefit of line art (scalability and small file size).

    Insane. My head hurts.

  • May 11, 2016 at 2:03 pm #84809
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    It’s usually a problem with using spot color swatches when you don’t really mean for them to be spot colors.
    https://creativepro.com/ink-manager-forget-step-exporting-pdf.php

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