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FederalMfgCo
FederalMfgCo
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February 2, 2016
Question

Acrobat leaves a black artifact (looks like black sheets of paper) over pdfs. Artifacts only visible in Illustrator, not Acrobat or Photoshop.

  • February 2, 2016
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No idea what's causing black shadow to appear over the top  left corner of most of my PDF's. It's not visible in Acrobat or Photoshop, only in Illustrator.

So far, the artifact is in the same place, every time, for every PDF I produce.

Is there place to upload these  files, so someone  can take a look and tell me what these shadows are, and how to clear them?

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Test Screen Name
Legend
February 2, 2016

Illustrator isn't a general PDF editor, so it's not unusual to be out of line with Acrobat and Photoshop which should have error free rendering.

FederalMfgCo
FederalMfgCoAuthor
Participant
February 2, 2016

It may not be a general PDF editor for you, but for what I'm doing, I  do sometimes need to scale, rotate, move,  and/or alter parts of a PDF.

Illustrator  is the best way to do that, so I would really like to know what's blocking a big part of my PDF.

T
Test Screen Name
Legend
February 2, 2016

Illustrator's not really the best way to do this if it is adding extra and unwanted elements. However if there is an element you can see in Illustrator maybe you can remove it there.

If you'd like to share a file and a screen shot in Illustrator, someone may have a clue. You have to share it on your own site etc. because you can't share within the forum.

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