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Losing the bevel and emboss effect when exporting to pdf

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    • December 21, 2017 at 1:26 pm #100442
      Eva-Maria Harthaus
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      I’m using the most current InDesign and have never come across this issue. I have some images that I’ve applied with the bevel and emboss effect. When I export it, not only does the bevel and emboss effect go away but also it puts a weird bevel line in the middle of one of the images. Of course this happens when I have a deadline today! I restarted my Mac and hoped that that would maybe re-set it a bit. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!

    • December 21, 2017 at 2:56 pm #100454
      Gert Verrept
      Member

      Tried pdf/x4?

    • December 21, 2017 at 4:34 pm #100456
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Also, are you viewing the exported PDF (I assume you are exporting to pdf?) in Acrobat, or some other PDF viewing program?

    • December 22, 2017 at 6:35 am #100465
      Eva-Maria Harthaus
      Member

      pdf/x4 doesn’t work.
      Yes, I’m viewing it in Acrobat Professional.

    • December 22, 2017 at 8:23 am #100467
      Eva-Maria Harthaus
      Member

      Also, I put a shear on the images and I think that’s what the problem is. For some reason, it flattens the sheared and bevel and embossed images.

    • December 22, 2017 at 8:50 am #100469
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Wow… you’re right! It is the shear… I also tried this with Inner Shadow, and as soon as I added shear (skew) the transparency stopped working in PDF export. Perhaps all the transparency effects are broken in that way? Might be a bug… I suggest reporting it as a bug at https://indesign.uservoice.com

      In the meantime, one possible solution would be to export the image without a shear as a PDF, then place it back into InDesign and then apply the shear. That seems to work.

    • December 22, 2017 at 9:09 am #100472
      Eva-Maria Harthaus
      Member

      Thanks David. I just went onto the https://indesign.uservoice.com/. Thanks.

      My workaround, since I had a deadline, was exporting the individual sheared and beveled images to a jpg, making the background transparent and a psd and then embedding it back into the indesign file. This worked perfectly. Gotta be MacGyver! LOL. Thanks for your help!

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