Tuesday, March 30, 2010

exporting indesign file as pdf - why...

I have been exported a long document as pdf; the different backgrounds of 120 pages show in the pdf viewer, but the last spreads do not show the background color. Does anyone has an idea, what could caused it?

thank you very much for help!

angelika

exporting indesign file as pdf - why...

There are a number of things.

It could be on a non-printing layer.

The background could be set to non-printing in Windows%26gt;Attributes make sure that non-printing for the frame is not on.

Try making the background so that half of it is on the left page and the other half is on the other side, you can do this by duplicating the frame and moving half the left side over to the spine, and the same on the right side, that will retain it's position.

It could be a corrupt file, so File%26gt;Export and choose Indesign interchange, open the .inx file it creates (it opens untitled) and try the export again.

Perhaps the background has a blending mode or something, turn on Overprint Preview and view the pages in question to see if anything strange is going on.

exporting indesign file as pdf - why...

thank you eugene for your help - I had indeed an effect ('bevel and emboss') turned onto the background layer

I saw something similar recently when transparency was applied. It affected some pages, and not others. Quite weird.

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