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.
Incidentally, there's an easy way to move that text to layer 2.
Edit > Select All > Text > Cut then select layer 2 and paste. Then you can lock layer 2 so that edit > select all now selects only layer 1 to convert to bitmap.
Here's a screen dump from an 800% zoom of the resulting PDF:
Ideally you should add an extra step -- set the pixel grid to the resolution you plan to use for the bitmap and snap all horizontal and vertical lines to that grid. That should avoid the antialiasing differences on the thicknesses some of the lines -- though I doubt if you'd see them without magnifying the print.
harryLondon said:Corel is not allowed to put transparent bitmaps in PDF-X/1 or PDF-X/3 files
Also, transparent bitmaps in PDF-X/3/acrobat8 files not works fine here.
Manually flatten the image the transparent aspect is distorting the object behid it.
tgm said:transparent bitmaps in PDF-X/3/acrobat8 files not works fine here.
Acrobat 8 does though (from Acrobat 5 actually), and as far as I know a PDF exported from Draw with Acrobat 8 compatibility will also keep the transparency.
Ronny Axelsson said:so the workaround is to create an opaque bitmap that simulates the transparency.
Please let me know what is "opaque bitmap" and how can i create that?
Thx!