December 1, 2025
Question
Problem with Illustrator patterns in Indesign
- December 1, 2025
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Hi,
I’m having an issue with Illustrator patterns when exporting an InDesign file to PDF version 1.3.
During export, the pattern from one artboard extends onto all the remaining artboards and continues seamlessly, instead of repeating independently on each artboard. For comparison, there are two files: “ark.pdf” and “ark-no_transparent.pdf”, where the latter exports correctly.
The file Master.pdf is linked to ark.indd, from which ark.pdf is exported.
The same setup applies to the files with the “-no_transparent” suffix.
The file with patterns exports incorrectly when transparency is used.
I’m attaching the files.
