PDF text is screened (halftoned)

[Diana Grow]

barb wrote:
> Well it's not Multi-Ad Creator. It can place a PDF on a document page. 
> My guess is that the particular newspaper you are sending the ads to 
> don't know Creator's capabilities and are converting your PDF to a JPG.
>
> Barb
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Jonathan Kreider wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've searched the archives and couldn't find anything related to 
>> "pdf" and
>> either "halftone" or "screened" that relates to my problem which is...
>>
>> My local newspaper uses "multi-ad" to do their layouts.  I'm assuming 
>> this
>> is the right mailing list for this, but I'm not sure.
>>
>> The problem is that when I send them (and when other business send 
>> them) pdf
>> documents, they routinely treat the whole thing as an image and as a 
>> result
>> the text is "halftoned" or "screened".  I have tried to get them to 
>> fix this
>> problem, but they seem either not to be bothered by it or simply 
>> incapable
>> of solving it or both.
>>
>> Not being familiar with either their production system or Multi-ad, I'm
>> hoping for a general troubleshooting outline that I can give them, or
>> perhaps even use to help them troubleshoot the problem.  I know that 
>> they
>> use a typesetter with at least 2400 dpi and their news text is crisp, 
>> so my
>> text should be also.  I'm guessing that "multi-ad" might have different
>> importing options and that they are importing it as an "image" rather 
>> than
>> postscript.  It's possible that my pdf might have problems, but I 
>> don't have
>> problems with other newspapers and "screened text" is a problem on 
>> most of
>> the ads that they print - it ain't just me.
>>
>> Thanks in advance...
>>
>> -- 
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan Kreider
>>
>> Kreider Machine Shop Inc.
>> 1886 Mt. Clinton Pike
>> Harrisonburg, VA 22802
>> 540-434-5351
>>
>> Kreider Four Seasons Equipment, Inc.
>> 1880 Harpine Hwy
>> Harrisonburg, VA 22802
>> 540-801-8873
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>
I work for a newspaper and we use multi-ad for ad creation and quark for 
page pagination on a baseview fifi system to import ad eps' for page 
output to a imagesetter using panther rip at 1200 dpi. Our system does 
not allow us to use pdfs imported into multi-ad so we have to convert 
them into eps form and import them into multi-ad. We do have to run them 
through a series of steps first to make sure they are cmyk and text is 
outline and optimized if they have a color issue (rgb) in any form we 
have to open them in photoshop to color correct to cmyk and make sure 
that any black text or solid black images are only on the black channel 
to accomplish this and retain hi quality text we open the pdf using a 
very high resolution at least 600 then when corrections are made we 
knock down the image to 200 to 150 and save as an eps. I know this is a 
complex way of doing it but it is the only solution they we have figured 
out that works.

-- 
Diana Grow
Star Beacon IT Manager
growdi at starbeacon.com
4626 Park Ave.
Ashtabula, OH 44004
(440) 998-2323 ext. 274
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