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• • June 23, 2011 at 9:54 am #59921
    kkanji

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    Hello everyone,

    I've been tearing my hair out for the past few hours to try to get a handle on this problem and even spoken to Adobe Support who said “they'd escalate the issue” but I'm hoping someone in this forum may have a faster fix. Fingers crossed.

    So, I have a 50-page document which, when I export it from Indesign CS 5.5 (v7.5.1) to interactive PDF format, has some pages coming out with all body text in bold when it should just be regular. I'm using Myriad Pro by the way.

    I've read a bunch of posts on the web that say this might be to do with transparency and images but there are no images on some of the affected pages and where there ARE images, I've made sure they're on a different layer to text and that the text layer is higher than the images layer. All of the images have no effects so there shouldn't be a transparency issue.

    I've also printed to PDF and that DOES seem to help but my document needs interactivity so the print-to-PDF solution isn't really viable.

    Any thoughts anyone, please, please, please!!

    Thanks

  • June 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm #59922
    Eugene Tyson

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    Make sure there are no images on your pasteboard too.

    If you go to the pages panel and there's a sub menu there and panel options.

    Turn on the Show Transparency option

    That puts a chequerboard icon beside all pages that have transparency on them. Check these pages against the pages in the pdf and if they correleate then it is most likely to do with transparency.

  • June 25, 2011 at 6:24 am #59930
    kkanji

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    Thanks so much Eugene!

    Using your advice I was able to see which pages have transparent images in them and either amend the images or just delete them.

    2 things of note:

    1. ID counts a rectangle – filled with colour and with a gradient feather applied – as a transparent image. I was using these rectangles in my headers so now they're just block colour with no effects.

    2. Interestingly, ID doesn't like gifs or png files. It doesn't mind jpegs but gifs or pngs, regardless of what they are, seem to count as transparent images.

    Why couldn't Adobe support just tell us this?

    Thanks again.

  • June 25, 2011 at 7:28 am #59932
    Eugene Tyson

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    GIF and PNG support transparency, and can contain Alpha Channels, so does PSD and TIFF, they can trigger the transparency too!

    A gradient feather or ANY effect would be considered transparency. Instead of gradient feather, perhaps create a gradient swatch instead of using gradient feather, and you can use Say Blue to white gradient to blend into the paper, or if you have a different colour, blue to pink or whatever you're using.

    Use TINTS of swatches instead of changing their OPACITY in the effects panel. Using Opacity triggers transparency too!

  • June 27, 2011 at 3:06 am #59943
    Tim Hughes

    Member

    The use of transparency is not something you really need to avoid, it can allow you to make far more interesting layouts alot quicker than was possible before.

    Make sure you have the text on a layer above all transparency.

    To NOT use psd files in my work would be like going back to the dark (quark) ages.

  • June 27, 2011 at 8:59 am #59944
    Eugene Tyson

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    Indeed, but then again there is no need to use transparency in images if you don't need it. which is what I think was going on here.

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