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Oquidoqui
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April 6, 2021
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Trapping problem with certain fonts.

  • April 6, 2021
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Anyone know why this jaggedy weirdness happens when putting a very thin (.05pt) stroke on certain fonts? This is Meta Serif Pro. (Trapping stroke changed to red for visualization).
Thanks!
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Correct answer rob day

Open the Trap Presets panel to set your trap preferences. Here I’ve made a preset named Big Trap:

 

 

Then you have to Assign the preset from the Assign Trap flyout menu—you can also change the [Default] preset which would get applied to all of the pages when there are no other presets:

 

 

The traps only get applied when your Print Output tab Color is set to Separations or In-RIP Separations, and you set Trapping to Application Built-In:

 

 

In-RIP Separations will print a composite with traps. Here I Distilled the page with In-RIP Separations so we can see the traps in a print to PDF. Traps are not applied to exported PDFs, AcrobatPro has its own Trapping panel for trapping PDFs.

 

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rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
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April 6, 2021

Is there a reason you are trying to maually create traps rather than using InDesign’s built in trapping and applying the trapping when you output separations?

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    OquidoquiAuthor
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    April 6, 2021

    To be honest, no: I learned this way of doing it way back and never figured out the built in Adobe Trapping system. I will investigate further, thanks!

    rob day
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    rob dayCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    April 6, 2021

    Open the Trap Presets panel to set your trap preferences. Here I’ve made a preset named Big Trap:

     

     

    Then you have to Assign the preset from the Assign Trap flyout menu—you can also change the [Default] preset which would get applied to all of the pages when there are no other presets:

     

     

    The traps only get applied when your Print Output tab Color is set to Separations or In-RIP Separations, and you set Trapping to Application Built-In:

     

     

    In-RIP Separations will print a composite with traps. Here I Distilled the page with In-RIP Separations so we can see the traps in a print to PDF. Traps are not applied to exported PDFs, AcrobatPro has its own Trapping panel for trapping PDFs.

     

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