Overprint Issue

[adamh88]

Hi all,

I tried posting this in the Acrobat forum but I could not find the start new discussion on the Acrobat homepage. It's not there for me, unless it is hidden well . So I'm hoping to get some help here. My issue is that I have this PDF. It's got a yellow background and on it is a white rectangle with some black text on it. The white rectangle is NOT set to overprint...however when I open the PDF with my acrobat overprint preview settings set to "Always" the white rectangle vanishes. The black text stays. Same for when I set it to "Automatic". However, if I set my overprint preview settings to "Only For PDF/X Files" the graphic looks fine--white rectangle is there. I am not sure why this happening--does anyone have any ideas? Also I cannot find any documentation on the different settings such as "Automatic", "Always", etc....I'm curious what the exact differences between them are. Is there any documentation out there? Thanks!

[lambiloon]

Hi please share your file and tell us what final output you looking for....Thanks

[adamh88]

Hi lambiloon! Thanks for the reply. For privacy reasons--I cannot post the file. But it's exactly like how I posted originally. Yellow background, white rectangle, and black text. Nothing fancy, all blending modes set to normal in Illustrator. Nothing set to overprint. The issue is that the white rectangle disappears when the overprint preview settings in Acrobat are set to "Always" and "Automatic". However, it looks fine when I set the overprint settings to "Only for PDF/X Files". I can't figure out why and I'm also looking for some documentation of the different overprint preview settings in Acrobat.

[lambiloon]

share picture please othewise wait for someone other member who knows more...thanks

[Abambo]

Maybe you can recreate a file with the same problem but dummy content. lambiloon and I had the same idea/request, me on your second thread that I locked.

[Srishti Bali]

moved to Printing & Prepress​