Frustrating problem that I can't seem to solve, despite reasonable expertise in pre-press.
Whenever I drop a bitmap photo on top or nearby a vector, or type, the bounding box of the bitmap distorts the type around it when exporting to PDF for prepress (x-1 or x-3). Tried every setting, but something is doing this in the conversion. Any drop shadow does the same.
To date, I've had to close-crop the bitmap bounding box so that it is no longer square shape, but rather follows the exact outline of the bitmap...very time consuming and it means I can't use a drop shadow.
I didn't manage to reproduce that. Perhaps you could you upload an example CDR file to illustrate the problem?
If the file is under 256Kb you can do that in the options tab when you reply. If it is bigger than 256Kb you will need to save it to a public server such as dropbox and paste the URL here instead.
I've uploaded both the original Corel X6 file (latest service pack) and the PDF x-1A made from that file.
There are three bitmaps in crossword puzzle; a car, money bags and a Go Pro. These graphics also have drop shadows that have been broken apart (though I find that makes no difference). You will notice the type and crossword boxes are distorted where ever the bounding box of either the bitmap or the dropshadow (also a bitmap) touches a vector graphic or typeface.
Here's a google docs link to the two files. https://drive.google.com/?urp=https://www.google.com/&authuser=0#folders/0BxbUH1RqOA3Ud1ZCZmlqaGplNG8
Thanks, Lorne
You're welcome.Glad I could help.
Ronny Axelsson said:You're welcome.Glad I could help.
The conclusion from this topic is that : pdf not works fine here .
I like your clear and sincerely answer.
Thank you again.
Corel, Corel..... God bless you.
tgm said:The conclusion from this topic is that : pdf not works fine here
That is incorrect the conclusion is that PDF works as designed and that the output industry support for live transparency is very limited.
It's not ok that all transparency objects and shadows need to be converted in one bitmap.
tgm said:It's not ok that all transparency objects and shadows need to be converted in one bitmap.
If a feature in Draw isn't supported in the format you are trying to export to, Draw's export filter has to use some kind of workaround to make it look and print correctly. In most cases this is a bitmap.
We have told you so many times and still you keep on blaming Corel for something that they cannot do anything about.Please read the lines above again, several times, and try to understand.
Have you tried to Export as PDF and choosing "compatibility with Acrobat 8.0" or higher?