anomalous .eps

[FieryPantone]

Aargh … 80-odd pages of document full of referenced .eps; one graphic needs correction. Using the same techniques as for all the others, I correct the rogue .eps – and it refuses to print to .pdf.

The referenced graphic shows up as a tiff preview on screen when I look at the .fm

The .eps converts correctly when I open it in Acrobat Pro

but when I save the chapter to .pdf, there's just a hole where the graphic should be :-{

Thanks in advance for hints and tips! I really dislike anomalies …

Niels Grundtvig Nielsen

FM 9.0p255 on XP

[MichaelKazlow]

Niels,

The errant eps is raster or vector graphic? I always used to convert vector graphics to eps and raster to tiff. But recent versions of Frame seem to play better with pdf than eps (don't ask me why, as I thought Frame converts pdf back to eps). See what happens if you use a pdf version of the eps file.

[Bob_Niland]

Is the EPS content vector, raster, text or mixed?

What is the overall size of the image?

Is the image color?

RGB or CMYK?

Any chance the color depth is too deep (e.g. 48-bit)?

What print settings are you rendering with

(esp. is convert all CMYK to RGB on?)

What application is used for the edit and re-save

(e.g. Illustrator, Photoshop)?

What EPS options are being selected on re-save?

(e.g. Illustrator EPS version, any chance you used DCS EPS from Photoshop)

Does it work if saved to PDF rather than EPS?