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When exporting InDesign document to PDF you can see text box and frame lines

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April 13, 2017
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I'm exporting a document as PDF/X-1a:2001 and there is a page where I have used the drop shadow effect on text and you can see the text frame around this. There is also a smaller image on this page which you can also see the frame on when exporting. The lines around the text and image are clear and look fine before exporting.

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Those are stitching artifacts and are a result of flattening transparency. Why are you using X/1-a?

It is an archaic file format.

alextreidAuthor

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The printers I am using have specified that I export it as X/1-a, is there any way of getting rid of these lines and exporting it this way? Thanks

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They shouldn’t print and no, there’s no way to avoid it when flattening.

If you can, I would certainly be looking for a new printer that will accept a modern format such as X/4