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• • August 15, 2012 at 6:43 am #62905
    Scott Croft

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    Hi All

    I'm just putting together a couple of invitations…for advent services (yes already) and I've come across something odd.

    I have dotted lines on the reply back section but for some reason, when I print them out for proofing etc, the dotted lines aren't printing correctly, instead of dots, it is pringint out solid with a single dot at each end…

    It seems to be fine when exporting to pdf, but not when printing…

    Any one have any thoughts?

  • September 5, 2012 at 3:47 am #63064
    Scott Croft

    Member

    I take it no one else has had this problem then?

    I'm still suffering with this problem, which is annoying as there are occassions when I need to print things in house and they will have dotted lines and at present this is not possible.

    If anyone has any ideas as to how to sort this out I'd love to hear them!!

  • September 5, 2012 at 5:52 am #63065
    Gert Verrept

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    Never had the problem, but just thinking, font problem? kerning? tracking? Did you try changing the font? Does it occur in every file you make?

  • September 5, 2012 at 6:23 am #63067
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    How are you making these lines? Are they actually paths, stroked with a dashed line? Or dots in a font, as Gert was thinking?

    What happens if you try printing the PDF from Acrobat instead of printing from InDesign?

    I've never heard of this problem; it's pretty weird!

  • September 5, 2012 at 7:27 am #63068
    Scott Croft

    Member

    I've just put together a test file with four lines a,, drawn using the Line Tool and set to a stroke width of 2pt, then set to dotted, Japanese Dotted, Dash ( 3 and 2) and Dash (4 and 4)

    The dashed lines printed out as they should, both dotted lines printed one dot, then a solid line then a final dot at the end.

    Exporting a pdf, gives me perfect dotted lines on screen and when printed…also perfect dotted lines!

  • September 5, 2012 at 8:02 am #63069
    David Blatner

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    Wow… hm. Um. Perhaps try rebuilding your InDesign preferences? It might be a printer driver problem, I suppose. But I can't think of what could the issue here, sorry!

  • September 5, 2012 at 8:32 am #63070
    Ralph Sanders

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    I've had the same problem but it was the printer, not InDesign. The way I got around it was to print from PDF, not InDesign directly, and in the Acrobat print dialogue go to Advanced>Output and check Print As Image. Worked for me.

  • September 5, 2012 at 11:07 am #63073
    Gert Verrept

    Member

    Just curious, why not using the tabulation for making the dotted lines? If it's in an invitation, a plain text file, I would use the tab option instead of the drawn option. If you still have the same problem, then it will probably be the printer or driver which causes the problem.

    Do you have the latest driver installed? I tried it in cs6 (windows 7 pro), printed on a HP photosmart and it all printed well, drawn lines and tabulation.

  • May 2, 2018 at 10:24 am #103491
    Anne Berten

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    I am using ID 2017 and I am also having this issue. All of the other lines print just fine except the dots. No matter which dots I use, even one that I create, only the first and last dot appear and there are thin tick marks between the first and last dot. Does anyone have a fix for this?

  • May 2, 2018 at 10:47 am #103493
    David Blatner

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    Are you printing directly to a printer that is a “PostScript printer”? If it doesn’t have PostScript, then it might be some kind of weird problem with the printer driver. Check the various settings in the driver, or in the Print dialog box.

    And, of course see if it works in a PDF.

  • August 21, 2018 at 3:15 am #110011
    Naum Maumovi?

    Member

    I am not an actual user of InDesign, but I intensively work with PDF-s, and among other sources, i faced with one created by InDesign. The issue with dash pattern brings me here. PDF spec defines dash pattern as an array of [dash pause] pairs followed by a phase (starting offset). What I found in that PDF, is: “[ 0 0.937 ] 0 d” which means: zero user units length for dash and 0.937 user units length for pause. The result is no-dash line at all. It seems that Adobe Acrobat somehow tolerate that issue (replacing on the fly the zero value with something “visible”) and dash line appears. But other apps or devices may not so flexible.

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