Hi guys, me again !
My boss has designed a layout in Corel x5 and he has added a drop shadow glow to a vector logo - i am unsure how he did this, sorry, i hope you are all a lot better than me in Corel so you will understand how ?!
My problem is that when i create a pdf file and view it in acrobat, we lose the nice soft glow - we get what looks like a fat shadow - If i create a ps file (for outputting to our large format printer), my RIP tells me that a potential conflict may exist between spot colour replacement and a flattened transparency.
I guess Corel is flattening the transparency ? - Do i just need to print the file and at some point choose to keep the transparency instead of it being flattened ? If so, where do i find this to do it ?
I can do a pdf file for you all to see what outcome I am getting if this helps, if you could tell me how best to upload it on this forum?
Sammi
I resolve these similar problems - from Corel into pdf, in this way: Firstly, I export the file from Corel into jpg or tiff, secondly from jpg into pdf.
Hi Sammi,
how are you producing the PDF? Are you using Publish to PDF in CorelDraw, or printing via Adobe PDF (or similar)? If the former, what type of PDF model did you choose? If you "Publish to PDF" and choose PDF/X-3 you should get a proper drop shadow. Document Distribution also works.
Best regards,Brian.
Thanks Jised, I am having a play with this method - it works great for our proof but for our large format printer the resolution is too small so we do not get a good enough quality finished print. (i am going to try exporting as a tiff with the res to 1200 but this creates a big 380mb file)
but, like i said for our proof for the client this works great so thanks again.
Hi Brian
I have never used Publish to PDF from Corel, I will give that a try - I normally print to create a pdf using our Jaws PDf creator
Sammi said:for our large format printer the resolution is too small
Export it as a high resolution TIF at correct size. I would use LZW Compression if your RIP supports it.
I find going the HiRes TIF rout is the only reliable way to get images with special effects to print correctly.