Hello,
I’ve been working in indd for quite a while and I do have a decent background in prepping files for print.
But, we sent out a pdf of an indd ad that contains an image thats a cmyk tiff in the background and it has a gradient feather.
On top of that is text, basically, and a logo. There are only 3 colors in the doc other than black and white, and they’re all cmyk.
so I’ve been using the flattener preview and can see that my image is transparent. I tried flattening it in Acrobat Pro too.
The first comments I received from the magazine production person are as follows:
“The ad contains transparencies that need to be flatten. Also version should be PDF/X-1a:2001. Please correct and re-send
ad back to me.”
So tried to flatten the pdf x-1a in Acrobat and save that. I sent that, and then she wrote: I checked the ad and it has ICC colors in it. All colors need to be converted out of CMYK. The PDF version should be PDF/X-1a:2001. I have attached a digital ad spec sheet outlining the type of file we can use.”
Her document doesn’t say anything much except to export from Indd as a pdf x-1a:2001.
Is there something I’m doing wrong when I save the pdf from Indd? Maybe in the “output” section? Please help…. thanks in advance
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