Strange PDF header? problem

[Brad Crocker]

I'm not ruling out that the original PDF might be bad because it was 
created by a competing paper that is NOTORIOUS for releasing bad work. 
The thing I don't understand is why does it work 99 times, then the 
100th time messes up and every time following the 100th gives the same 
result. Something has changed, but it is not the original PDF. (Maybe 
some circumstance that "brought out" the bad post scripting on the 100th 
try?)

Perplexed,
The Sun Crew

Rob Briggs wrote:
> We employ a similar procees with Creator/Quark.
> My first suspicion would be with the original "camera ready" PDF.
> Did someone different send it?
> Were the same settings/programs used to make it?
> Remove the PDF form the Creator doc and re-export.
> If it processes OK there is something wrong with that file.
> If not, it is a graphic or font in Creator screwing things up.
>
> Rob Briggs
> Production Supervisor
> The Medina County Gazette
> 330.721.4081
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Crocker" 
> <brad-hsunads at hartcom.net>
> To: <creator at wacondatrader.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:00 PM
> Subject: Strange PDF header? problem
>
>
>> 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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