I was asked recently to provide overtakes for a few pages of a PDF for a book that had gone to the printer a few weeks before. The problem pages all exhibited the same issue: There was a line of type reading “Type text here”, in screened type, overlaying the background on some of the chapter openers. The type appeared in a different place on each of the affected chapter openers; however, not all of the chapter openers were affected. There were no anchored text boxes associated with these pages.
The phrase did not appear in any of my ID files, nor did it appear on any of the PDFs that I had generated using their .joboptions. In my ID files, I went back through each master and the opener page that had been affected. The text did not appear on those pages, and when I did a search for the text string, no instances were found. There were no random text blocks on the pasteboard that overlapped any of the material on the actual pages.
When I received the printer’s PDF of the problem pages, I was able to delete that text without any problem, but the question still remains: Where could that text have come from? I wasn’t working from a template, and I didn’t put that text in the files anywhere.
Does anyone have any ideas about this, or experience with it?
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