I just discovered that I cannot get CDX7 to publish to a PDF and have a gradient hit the pdf as a smooth shade (axial) object. Instead, X7 breaks the gradient into individual objects for each step of the gradient.
X6 works fine on the same file (well, back-saved).
I have attached a file for checking. You'll need Acrobat to check the gradient type, but importing or opening the Published PDF will demonstrate what I am yammering about.
Please tell me that there is a setting I must have missed...
Thanks, Mike
Which PDF preset are you using, and have you changed any settings ?
Hmmm, I tested this with the prepress preset and it seems clear that X6 and X7 are behaving very differently with this gradient.
But I can create other gradients (eg black to red) which create PDFs which re-import into X7 and are still gradients.