Re: [artworks] Producing Printable Files From Artworks

  • From: Steve Yandell <steyan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 14:56:54 +0100

On 4/4/2016 2:24 PM, Tim Hill wrote:

In article <9AA3B6A9-127E-4279-A1EB-C868BDAAEC43@xxxxxxxxx>, Tim
Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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  PDF really does seem to be a fully Portable
Document Format these days.
Yes, but it still can be a minefield. The printers I use always ask for a
small bitmap version of any PDF you send them in case their rendering
misses an object or two. I've never had a problem with any file I have
generated on RISC OS but they have certainly had problems with entire
print runs having to be binned, apparently, thanks to customer software
not generating PDF objects 'correctly'.

I did have a slight problem: I had prepared an A4 two-sided trifold flyer, with a combination of different file types (text areas, different graphics); the printers' first draft print (A4) was fine; but they then did the full print run (2000 copies) having used their software to print on A3 sheets to be cut in two. When I saw the finished product, a random selection of the graphics had vanished (one in particular making the remaining text sound very pretentious!).

The printers did accept that the fault lay at their end, and had to rerun the print.
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