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No Layer efects when export to interactive pdf

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    • November 17, 2010 at 5:09 pm #57794
      Caspian Ievers
      Member

      Has anyone else discovered that if you have a drop shadow on an object and export to interactive pdf in CS5 the effect is removed and replaced by a black line? Is there a work around?

    • November 17, 2010 at 5:26 pm #57795
      Caspian Ievers
      Member

      Now that I've explored it more I think it has something to so with colour spaces. If I create a new doc (with web intentions) and paste the offending shape in it is ok…. Might just rebuild from scratch.

    • November 17, 2010 at 6:21 pm #57796
      Caspian Ievers
      Member

      Nope, I was jumping the gun. Here's what I am doing:

      red shape. add dropshadow. export as interactive pdf (iPDF) = maintains drowshadow

      red shape with dropshadow on a layer above a light grey shape layer. expost iPFD = maintains dropshadow

      red shape with dropshadow on a layer above a light gray shape that has been converted to a button. export iPDF = not layer effect.

      Nuts!

    • November 18, 2010 at 3:09 am #57801
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      My CS4 always shows this warning when I try to export a document with effects and have the “Interactive” checkbox checked. That's why I never click any of the “Never Show Again” checkboxes — “I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?”

      You might have clicked the Don't Bother Me checkbox sometime long ago; but then again, it also might have changed in CS5, and it just doesn't warn you anymore.

      The dialog contains a tip on how to prevent this: try changing the Acrobat compatibility setting.

    • November 18, 2010 at 3:10 am #57802
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      Oh wait — this message pops up for the reverse! The effects should still be there, but no buttons …

      Hmmm …

    • November 18, 2010 at 6:33 am #57805
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I'm not sure why the drop shadow would disappear, but it sounds like the key is that you converted the gray object to a button… yes? Buttons are always on top of other objects, I believe. You need to put the buttons on top.

    • November 18, 2010 at 12:51 pm #57808
      Caspian Ievers
      Member

      So even if the button is on a layer underneath the rest of the art InDesign exports in the iPDF ontop of everything? Sounds crazy to me. Oh well. Time for a redesign.

    • November 20, 2010 at 12:16 am #57829
      Alan Gilbertson
      Participant

      smoothfluid said:So even if the button is on a layer underneath the rest of the art InDesign exports in the iPDF ontop of everything? Sounds crazy to me. Oh well. Time for a redesign.

      Not all that crazy: how would you click a button if it was underneath something else?

    • November 20, 2010 at 1:55 am #57831
      Caspian Ievers
      Member

      I see what you are saying, however what I had planned seems like it should have worked.

      https://www.flickr.com/photos/s…..otostream/

      image

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