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Robert Britton
MemberPerfect! that hyperlink page anchor one is exactly what i needed!
Thank you so much!
MemberHi Colleen:
Just wanted to say thanks for the response. It is very much appreciated.
I don’t do any spot colors. Just pure CYMK. I learned early on the bane of spot colors.
Your settings for the most part are what we use.
You know, if we take the simplest of transparent images (say a B&W icon) and place it over a box drawn in ID (like a header), many times when creating the PDF, their is a white outline around the box instead of transparency. I truly don’t get it. There’s no ID effects. No spot colors. Just a box filled with a CYMK swatch with a transparent icon over it. YDB.
I followed another article here (RE: YDB) and have a custom hi-rez flattener that essentially makes a huge rasterized PDF. Sometimes (most times) this seems to help with YDB, but it’s not 100%. And I’m left with this monster PDF (sometimes a 1gb+ in size after the high-quality custom flattener is used during export.) Takes forever to print, and isn’t what I’d call “portable”. But most times, I have no YDB (but not always).
I’ve been doing ID for only about a year. I’ve never experienced such frustrations RE: PDFs ever in my life than this past year. At first, I thought it was our printer (the Konica). Then I soon realized that it’s the creation of PDFs that is at issue from ID. I’ve tried so many different approaches. Like I said, above, most of the time, I’m able to figure out a way to get a non-YDB PDF created. But usually, that is some freakishly large rasterized PDF.
It’s been the bane of my existence since I’ve been working with ID.
I had hoped that perhaps there was some PDF standard that I needed to use that would help here. Hence this post.
I appreciate your input. I will continue to try to learn more about how to get better results. I have to do so much post export work in house, searching the resultant PDF for YDB, trying various PDF export options to get it to flatten transparency without creating YDB. Takes forever. Everytime. It gets tiring. Seems like an awful lot of craziness.
:)
Thanks again!
MemberThank you. I’m going even deeper down the rabbit hole now.
That link worked to help me fix the problem.
I’m trying to understand why YDB shows up anyways. It just makes no sense. I used the Flattener preview and I can see where my text is around images with transparent objects (near, or on top of). That’s exactly where the YDBs are showing up.
So one isn’t to put text over graphics with transparent backgrounds without getting YDB? How’s that suppose to work? I overlay objects with transparent backgrounds frequently.
Seems like a bug in InDesign to me. Just crazy.
Anyways, his tip of using less vector and more raster worked. I created my own flattener preset and the issue went away. But in reading the comments, 1) it seems like it’ll make a larger file, and 2) breaks the benefit of line art (scalability and small file size).
Insane. My head hurts.
MemberPS. It’s the ghosting around the words “FROM GOD” in the black bar.
MemberI hope this info here helps any one with a similar problem.
Here’s what I had to do in order to fix my problem.
I exported from ID my document as a color PDF ensuring it was output to U.S. Web Coated SWOP.
I exported a second copy, but changing the OUTPUT to Gray Gamma 1.8 to a different file. I then used Acrobat DC to use preflight to CONVERT TO GRAYSCALE.
In my first document (the color PDF), I deleted all the internal pages except the front and back color cover using ORGANIZE PAGES. I then used OGRANIZE pages on the grayscale document and dragged all the INTERNAL PAGES (except the front and back cover) to the color PDF.
The result was a PDF that printed color front and back covers (costing a COLOR CLICK) and internal grayscale pages that cost a B&W Click.
Now I can run my production without breaking the bank.
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