I am able to fix or adjust or relayout almost anything coming at me without having to go back to the client who wouldnt be able to fix it anyways lol and keep even the rushest. Find solutions to common printing problems that can occur with indesign. Apr 07, 2014 to save the pdf preset give it a brief name indesign adds the extension. White or dark lines appear in areas where process colors and spot colors interact during flattening. Errors with publisher to pdf conversion moves the image. Black lines means youve applied or your settings are defaulted to make any text box you make have a black stroke. You could change this default for the application by clicking on the line tool and adding a black, or any other color stroke with no documents open. Why are there unwanted, hairline white lines appearing in my pdf generated from indesign bob lobe. If you are using pdfs for client presentations, this can. Fine white lines visible around the content in exported pdf.
This white box, or in fact white line, is the edge of an atomic region in the transparency flattened pdf. If your issue occurs when exporting to pdf from indesign to acrobat standard, pro, or pro extended, try printing to adobe pdf printer. In this indesign document, why is there more space between. I have created a file in illustrator that combines vector lines from illustrator and raster files from photoshop. If you dont it wont render them correctly due to the flattener. These are flat file formats and require art not contain transparency for proper rendering. Seeing thin usually white or grey lines around elements of your pdf. To save the pdf preset give it a brief name indesign adds the extension. Refrying pdf files how to troubleshoot and solve a problem. Mar 04, 20 there are so many things that can be causing this and there is no way of telling from a screenshot of the text. Weird lines keep showing up in my pdf but not indesign document. It appears to only be an issue when i use a custom page size right now its 8. First, open your current indesign project or start a new one by selecting file new document. Can i get rid of all the guides and drag lines and just.
The edges of these regions are sometimes visible in acrobat and other pdf viewers, but most likely will not print with the white lines. A runt in a typographic context refers to a short last line of a paragraph. I wanted to make an unordered list bullets where there are indents. When i change the pages background color by modifying the swatchespaper color, and export it to pdf by going to fileexport, in indesign the outcome of that has a page with a default white background. Dont fear the white lines in your pdfs created by indesign the.
To explain this, here is the same pdf displayed using wireframe. Hi guys, i know that this topic has been discussed before, ive read every single thread. Mar 20, 2007 no, its actually a default combined with an indesign oddity. To load a predefined pdf preset, choose file adobe pdf presets define and click the load button. They are probably regions in your pdf which have been flattened in making a pdf x3 file. Mar 11, 2011 in general, the white lines, or light leaks are due to a pdf that includes flattened transparency transparency effects such as placed psd files in a file saved in a file format that doesnt support transparency such as acrobat 4, a. When the text is displaced by a text wrap, its no longer in the area where the indent spacing can affect it. Today we want to go over the graphics options panel available in pdf2id. If you turn off smooth line art in acrobat preferences the lines should disappear. Whenever i print it, these thin white lines are showing up above and below some of my text.
I need to email a pdf of the finished project to a rep in texas within the next two hours halp. In this post, i will show one way of forcing indesign to avoid runts in paragraphs. Have you ever opened a pdf file and seen thin white lines where there. The only real way to fix this is to never have any raster images with transparent effects on top of vector blends or tints. Quit indesign and move these plugins out of the plugin folder.
Indesigns balance ragged lines feature goes some way towards achieving the latter and is useful to include as part of the style definition of headings, pullquotes, and centered paragraphs. Pdf created with indesign looks fine, prints wrong solutions. This course speaks directly to the needs of writers and editors who have to use indesign for the first timeor want to use it more regularly and efficiently. Its just weird to me because ive never had an indesign document do this before. A very useful, yet little known, option in the stroke panel is the ability to add your own custom. These hairlines will absolutely disappear when the pdf is printed. Those who work with financial, legal, medical and other exact documentation will find this an essential tool. Find answers to strange line on pdfs from indesign from the expert community at experts exchange. The majority of the time there is no need to worry about these as high end printers will not display these. There are so many things that can be causing this and there is no way of telling from a screenshot of the text.
The pdf, made from indesign is so far off in colour. Export to pdf in indesign causes thin white or dark lines. This happens all the time, but this particular time ive made a duotone multichannel dcs file in photoshop. Fix adobe indesign to pdf character conversion problem. As most of you are aware, pdf2id has been designed to deliver the best pdf to indesign conversion. Yet you still may be plagued with short lines sprinkled throughout, or gutters that look twice what theyre speced. Indesign s balance ragged lines feature goes some way towards achieving the latter and is useful to include as part of the style definition of headings, pullquotes, and centered paragraphs. These more recent pdf formats support transparency and will not flatten the file, thus wont result in the stitching due to flattening.
The lines follow the exact outline of the shapes rough and circular i erased stuff from the raster image using a circular brushes you can literally see the eraser marks. Pdf printing problem horizontal white lines sorry for my delayed answer. Question about line weights in pdf portfolio forum. There have been other issues with white lines, such as this old cs3 problem with psd. Why are there unwanted white lines appearing in a pdf. By default, indesign adds a tab character to after the bullet character. Issue with type that is meant to be whit is showing up black when i export to pdf.
The apache openoffice user forum is an user to user help and discussion forum for exchanging information and tips with other users of apache openoffice, the open source office suite. I have an indesign document that i have exported to a. Hi bob, what app did you create th orginal file in. Home forums general indesign topics printing problems with pdf from indesign this topic contains 3 replies, has 4 voices, and was last updated by bob rubey 8 years, 3 months ago. Find answers to strange line on pdf s from indesign from the expert community at experts exchange. If indesign is acting up, the first thing to determine is whether that only happens with one particular file. Very urgent unwanted white border between black stage and black background.
He also said that he rarely has problems with illustrator cs 3 and higher. Everything so far looks great and uniform across softwares. However, many of you may not be aware of the advanced graphics options in pdf2id. You can turn off smooth line art or use any of these solutions. Jun 08, 2007 maybe you dont have these problems because you set your body copy flushleft. Save the file, and transfer the design to adobe indesign, and the problem will be fixed. You have an image file behind objects or text that have transparency applied, including drop shadows.
In indesign, i added a solid blue rectangle that is flush with the left edge of the page and then exported the document as a pdf in indesign. Problems creating pdf in indesign adobe pdfs can solve the following problems associated with electronic. Pdfinteractive vs facing pages paul erdman may 4, 2011 at 10. Convert pdf graphics to indesign, recover pdf artwork in.
Export to pdf in indesign causes thin white or dark lines to appear. He told me that when issues like this come up it usually is indesign. In indesign high quality display mode, in a fit to windows zoom i see very smooth and thin lines and everything seems perfect. Turning off the antialiasing in acrobats display preferences smooth line artsmooth images eliminates these lines. Have you ever opened a pdf file and seen thin white lines where there shouldnt be any. The logo is actually segmented by several faint black lines almost horizontal quarters. Welcome to the pdf2id graphics options explanation video. This is caused due to the flattening of transparency in the file. Im guessing that you are either creating files to pdf x1a or to be compliant with acrobat 4.
Feb, 2011 by default, indesign offsets the bullets using the indent spacing left indent, first line left indent, which starts measuring from the edge of the text box. Balancing ragged lines it is often necessary to break display type. I keep saving my publisher doc as a pdf file, but when i go to look at it, it has a white band at the top and the image is cut off at the bottom. Issues with color handling can show up as color shifts in part of an image. I have once spent half a day trying to get my setup working again.
Indesign cc display error thin white line adobe indesign. Nov 16, 2004 problems exporting to pdf white lines show up overlapping images join the discussion of adobe indesign in creative cow s forum for users of this powerful page layout system. Refrying pdf files how to troubleshoot and solve a. As a print proof its most likely that the pdf is in pdfx1a format or acrobat 45 format. You can see that this simple indesign construct is split into multiple elements. If the weight is 0 but there is still a line, that means it was imported from a cad program and will not print correctly in most situations. The cs6 interactive pdf export offers a pages or spreads selection option. Using the pen tool, create two additional anchor points exactly at the halfway point of each character making a total of 6, as pictured below. Beware the placed indesign stitching bug indesignsecrets. Fine white lines visible around the content in exported pdf help. Dont fear the white lines in your pdfs created by indesign. Anyway i have been able to verify that its something in my printer, because if i print from indesign directly to my printer i get the bad boxes, but if i print from indesign to a pdf printer, such as bullzip or the adobe printer, i get no boxes.
When rgb images overlay cmyk images, transparency flattening problems can occur. One has black bleeding off all edges of the page, the other has a black bar across the top and bottom of the page that meets the edges of the page, but doesnt fully bleed. This issue is normally due to image flattening in combination with. How do you get rid of the box lines around a text in adobe. If you zoom in at almost 300% the lines disappear but they also show when you print the doent. Also make sure that all your illustrator lines have a weight to them.
A much needed feature is a setting in the export as pdf to export a color id document as grayscale. This is generally not considered desirable, probably because a a short last line creates too noticeable a gap between paragraphs it is too obtrusive, creating something. Pdf printing problem horizontal white lines autodesk. Thin white, dark lines stitching export to pdf indesign. Fix adobe indesign to pdf character conversion problem if you are a graphic designer and frequently convert adobe illustrator and indesign files to pdfs, you have probably encountered issue with the i and l characters rendering too thick.
There are a few ways to change the stroke of an object in indesign one is on the bottom of your tools menu there are two boxes overlapped. The problem is that when i view these pdfs in acrobat pro 9. White thin line appears on edge of pdf page after indesign. If you dont have any text in your project yet, select the type tool it looks like a t and drag to create a text box. Feb 28, 2010 black lines means youve applied or your settings are defaulted to make any text box you make have a black stroke. Why are there unwanted white lines appearing in a pdf print. When you see thin white lines in your pdf files indesignsecrets. No, its actually a default combined with an indesign oddity.
Printing problems with pdf from indesign indesignsecrets. Pdf2id enables you to recover artwork from pdf files into indesign easily using the graphics options panel. Im an indesign beginner in fact this is the first time i every used it. Pdf created with indesign looks fine, prints wrong. The white lines problem is becoming more of an issue when pdfs have multiple uses. You can even work in this mode if the clutter of normal mode bothers you, but youll need to go back to normal view mode to use guides to help line up the objects on your page.
How to change line spacing in indesign 247 shutterstock. One common reason for this occurring is that the paragraph mark is at a different font andor spacing than the rest of the text. It is really bad at accommodating text reflows and reformatting. In general, the white lines, or light leaks are due to a pdf that includes flattened transparency transparency effects such as placed psd files in a file saved in a file format that doesnt support transparency such as acrobat 4, a. Its an architectural plan linked as eps in indesign the one id like to convert to pdf. Mike, right on i use a combo of indesign and pitstop to rebuild and tweek many a pdf in my daily workflow including adjusting an issue not addressed in the problem list bad layout or panel sizes. The white box or black appears on a white background as well for me. Thin white line border appears around entire pdf page when. The mystery of the disappearing lines layers magazine. You can extract and recover images from a pdf file and have them linked back to an editable indesign file. Question about line weights in pdf portfolio forum archinect. Why is my background white when exported as pdf in indesign.
What transparency is, how to detect it in pdf files and some consequences of its use in. The first method is to simply open the pdf and zoom in and out if the thin white line disappears when you zoom in and out, its just a display glitch. Help please the lineweights in the illustrator file i am working on is coming out really thick when i save as pdf format. If i openlook at the pdf document in the chrome browser, ie browser, older versions of acrobat reader like acrobat xi, or even other pdf readers like foxit pdf reader, the white line does not appear and the document appears correctly. The solution is to go to preferencesgeneralpage display and check the smooth line art check box. Adobe master collection cs6, no previous problems with printing in indesign and no problems in any of the other applications.
Heres a pdf of the first few pages of layout ive done with indesign, the images are just comps of the ones i might be using, the masthead on the front page is just fonts, its going to be an image but i havent done that yet, there will be more text on the. Blacklining works in conjunction with indesign to allow a user to retain a complete audit trail of all changes made to text. I swear i have tried everything im about to buy different software to fix this problem as the. Google dreaded white box problem indesign and check the indesign secrets and adobe. Colour way off making pdfs from indesign adobe acrobat. Im working on a project for school, and i did all the textlayout setup in indesign but also have a lot of photoshop and. Print using the adobe pdf printer and set the color output to composite gray.
Boundary lines show on pdf file view topic apache openoffice community forum. I made a copy of the file and used my own method to split it to single pages, which only took me about half an hour. Is can you go on the server, find the folder that in design is saving to, and then get info on it, and make sure its not set to read only make sure that the user users that are trying to save the indesign file, have both read and write permission on that folder. Problems exporting to pdf white lines show up overlapping images join the discussion of adobe indesign in creative cow s forum for users of this powerful page layout system. The bizarre pink problem or whitetopink, blacktogreen awful conversion 6. Your indesign file should link only to pdfs and jpgs. The preset is added to the list of available presets in indesign. Maybe you dont have these problems because you set your body copy flushleft.
When you export to adobe pdf from indesign, white or dark lines are visible in the pdf file. When adobe indesign starts to behave in a weird way, it can be very time consuming to figure out how to solve the issue. As a print proof its most likely that the pdf is in pdf x1a format or acrobat 45 format. The default stroke for the line tool is none, as it is for all drawing tools object creation tools in indesign. Bullet and numbered lists became a feature in indesign relatively late in the scene, and yet never seem to work quite right. Editors, copywriters, and admin staff often have to edit text right inside indesign. White or dark lines can be caused by antialiasing of an application where the two regions intersect. They are probably regions in your pdf which have been flattened in. Strange annoying 1px line when i save a pdf from indesign. Weird lines keep showing up in my pdf but not indesign. When you export to a pdf this time all characters display correctly. They are probably regions in your pdf which have been flattened in making a pdfx3 file. The line generates on all pages no matter if therere images or graphics or text in the document on this.
It has nothing to do with indesign because the same thing happens with pdfs created in. Adobe also included transparency support in indesign and they heavily. Aug 21, 2008 i have two pdfs that i created in indesign cs4. No, i have to print a black and white proof for class tomorrow but my instructor also wants us to submit a pdf for grading.
Apr 27, 2011 6 responses to indesign cs5 pdf export woes. I have a 500 page indesign file that i made in cs4 that is intended to be both printed and used in acrobat with interactive features, including hyperlinks, bookmarks, and buttons. I have placed that image in indesign and now i see lines around the raster images. Achieving an overall consistent spacing in your body copy is important without it, readers will be distracted by uneven light and dark. Choose help configure plugins windows or indesign configure plugins mac os select all plugins for the set and then clear all the options in the display section except third party. Problems exporting to pdf white lines show up overlapping. For most print work i recommend saving to pdf x1a, acrobat 4 pdf 1.