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
Use Acrobat 6 or higher and then your viewer must support live transparency, I.E. Acrobat with a Professional plugin or a RIP pre press application. No Illustrator or other dime store viewer.
David Milisock said:Use Acrobat 6 or higher and then your viewer must support live transparency, I.E. Acrobat with a Professional plugin or a RIP pre press application. No Illustrator or other dime store viewer.
Geez, David. I wasn't born yesterday. Did you look at the file? Export/Publish however, whatever type, you want and inspect it in Acrobat. The screen shot was made in Acro XI. This PDF was produced from X7 using Acrobat 9 compatibility.
But it doesn't matter the type as PDF/X supports smooth shading and X6 handles this properly, X7 does not. Pretty simple. 248 individually colored vector objects representing the gradient when published from X7. Really not good.
Here is a PDF that works perfectly in Pitstop Pro and all my RIPS Published to PDF as Acrobat 6 and any concept that the PDF export from CDGS is wrong is not correct. You must use professional tools to examine the PDF.
Ok here is a file that has Mikes gradient in which BTW was RGB and my gradient which is built CMYK with the same parameters, (rotation, color build to color build) as Mikes except CMYK instead of RGB. Mine works and his does not, so I have no idea but I have to question the source of the graphic.