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February 5, 2020
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Drop Shadow causing color issues only in InDesign

I am getting this block - lighter colored box. It has something to do with the drop shadow. 

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rob day
rob dayCorrect answer
Community Expert
February 5, 2020

Composite printers can sometimes have problems with transparency flattening and color management. When you print from Acrobat try checking Print as Image in the Advanced tab.

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rob day
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rob dayCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
February 5, 2020

Composite printers can sometimes have problems with transparency flattening and color management. When you print from Acrobat try checking Print as Image in the Advanced tab.

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Participant
February 13, 2020

This solution WORKED!!!!! Thank you.

 

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Bill Silbert
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Community Expert
February 5, 2020

Please provide more information about how you got to this point. Is the photo an image imported into an InDesign layout? If so what file format is it? Does the original image file have layers and transparency in it or has it been flattened? Are we looking at the file in InDesign or are we viewing what it looks like in a pdf?

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Participant
February 5, 2020

The image is imported into a shape and a drop shadow is applied. It does not show on the screen or in the PDF. just in print.

 

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