Hi, all. I've been trying to upload a client's color dust jacket image files to Lulu for days now and despite checking and rechecking the overall specs according to their posted specs, the "postscript points measurements" of the files I'm sending are coming in too large by sometimes more than twelve points. I use a 24" hi-rez monitor and check dimensions in CorelDraw at 300% to make sure. The files are right on spec in my machine, but rejected by their autovetter. Anyone have similar issues? At first, I tried a simple publish to pdf in vector & bitmaps as always, then I exported the entire document to 300 dpi CMYK then to pdf, but still NG. Should I try Adobe Illustrator or some other format to pdf?
Do you have bleed turned on? I send out PDF files by the hundreds with no issues.
Then I suggest another printer. Most printers want trim size + 1/8" bleed all around, even if you give them more their software places your PDF in a frame of the desired size, cropping of any extra. There are always a few thousandths of an inch difference in conversions but never more then that.
I've been going through this crap since the invention of the technology. You know the old adage, ask your service provider.
I'm really picky about the gray balance UCR and GCR curve of my CMYK profile, so I use two Kodak profiles, they lead the way with this technology and are nearly copied by todays GRACoL standard. The difference being that Kodak made coated and uncoated paper versions with the coated designed for high end sheet fed presses larger TIC and similar for the uncoated version.
The GRACoL version IMO severely limits the TIC and is of lessor quality, knowing this I wanted to match the Kodak version to the presses profile as closely as possible. So I ask what the TIC of the press profile was and the answer was I don't know I just click the icons they tell me to.
And they wonder why the print industry is in the shape it is.