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
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.