When I do a print to PDF of separations of a Color Spot file, the PDF is not correct and leads to misbehaviours of my Riso printer.
A little example of a drawing with 2 spot colors (Red and Blue), 2 vector shapes and 6 monochrome bitmaps in different shades of the Red and the Blue :
A print preview in CorelDraw of the Red printout is correct.
Only objects with Red are on that page :
After printing this to PDF (using CutePDF Writer), the PDF looks good:
But when looking closer to this PDF, the PDF is not correct.
One can see that:
1) all the bitmaps are transformed and sliced into hundred of bitmap lines:
2) Worse, all the Blue objects are also present on the Red page but a White color (not even transparent):
(These 2 screenshots are from a re-import of the PDF file into Corel Draw)
Those white objects and bitmaps are confusing the printer and leading to misbehaviour.
Is there a way produce better PDFs ?
Thanks
The sliced bitmaps is a PS level 2 thing for sure. What language version of Windows and CorelDRAW are you using?
Also make sure that you have flattened all transparencies in your Corel file before printing.
WIn7 + CD X6.
What do you mean by "you have flattened all transparencies in your Corel file" ? I"m working in Draw not Photopaint.
Just because it's Draw does not mean you cannot have transparency, Device N transparency has been supported in the entire suite since X4.