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October 11, 2022
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PDF has grid lines when Ai file dropped onto distiller

  • October 11, 2022
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Advert done in illustrator. Fonts outlined then file dropped onto the acrobat distiller... It generates weird grid lines and this seems to be a long running problem... Any ideas?

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

This is expected behaviour and not a Distiller error.

See:

https://help.autodesk.com/sfdcarticles/attachments/Adobe_Whitepaper_on_Transparency.pdf

And look at the part: The flattening process explained

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Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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October 19, 2022

This is expected behaviour and not a Distiller error.

See:

https://help.autodesk.com/sfdcarticles/attachments/Adobe_Whitepaper_on_Transparency.pdf

And look at the part: The flattening process explained

    ianm76573595
    ianm76573595Author
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    October 19, 2022

    Thank you... Looking now...

     

    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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    October 11, 2022

    Why are you using Distiller at all?

     

    Distiller is last century's workflow, so is there any reason why you are using it?

      ianm76573595
      ianm76573595Author
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      October 11, 2022

      Smaller file sizes when I drag an Adobe Illustrator EPS file onto the app window... I'll quite happily give up and just save directly out of illustrator if thats the fix though... Thank you...

      Monika Gause
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      Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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      October 11, 2022

      Your grid lines happen most probably due to transparency flattening. And probably already when exporting that EPS.

       

      So you maybe want to say goodbye to your ancient workflow, which ruins the result in so many ways (transparency as well as color management).

        Mylenium
        Mylenium
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        October 11, 2022

        Open Distiller, go to the settings menu, save your preset.

         

        Mylenium

          ianm76573595
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          October 11, 2022

          I looked in print ready file settings... All of them one by one (In distiller) Cant find tile settings anywhere... Can you screen grab please?

           

          Mylenium
          Mylenium
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          October 11, 2022

          You need to check the PDF settings. If you don't want it, then don't let it produce tiles. otherwise you need to check overprint and al lthat - in Acrobat, not AI.

           

          Mylenium

            ianm76573595
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            October 11, 2022

            I didnt know you could let the distiller produce tiles for print settings... Any idea where to find them? Had to do the PDF through illustrator which makes a bigger file... Cheers for the quick reply...

             

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