Strange PDF header? problem

[Peter Stremic]

I thought InD had serious .eps import problems; Personally, I try to  
avoid .eps whenever using InD.


On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Brad Crocker wrote:

> We have a camera ready PDF ad that comes from a nearby car dealer.  
> We have been running the same ad for weeks and it has always run  
> correctly.
>
> Our camera ready PDF is placed on a Creator 7.0.6 document and then  
> updated (cover up parts with boxes, retypeset things, etc. etc.) The  
> new PDF is produced (Export EPS from Creator, Distiller 7.0 distills  
> -> new PDF) and is then placed on an InDesign CS3 document, along  
> with other ad PDFs and editorial content. A final PDF of the entire  
> page is produced (Export EPS from InDesign, Distiller 7.0 distills - 
> >final PDF) and that goes to rip, print...
>
> The ad we did last week was based on the original camera ready PDF,  
> changes made, what appears to be a good PDF is distilled out of  
> Creator, dropped in InDesign, final PDf produced. This week however,  
> the PDF that comes from InDesign has "garbled", pixelly graphics in  
> some instances. Some pictures on the ad are good, others look like  
> white noise, pixelly filled outlines of those graphics.
>
> Our resident tech guru said this was a "PDF Header error". Said to  
> take the Creator PDF, save as tiff and try again. Same result. When  
> I place the Creator EPS (the one that was distilled), place that in  
> InDesign and redistill, it works, graphics are right.
>
> Any suggestions on what went wrong, how we could avoid this? We  
> could just start placing EPS instead of PDFs, but I hate to revamp  
> our entire process because of one bad PDF. Plus EPSs take a little  
> longer to place, process.
>
> Does this sound like a Creator, InDesign or Distiller issue? (I'm  
> leaning toward the latter since the Creator EPS works).
>
> Any advice or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brad,
> The Hartwell Sun Composition Dept.
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