Strange PDF header? problem

[Zindler, Lynn]

Do y'all use a program to preflight your pdfs? We use a program called Speedflow and it can be setup to change color, photo resolution etc. to what it needs to be for newsprint. When we get a pdf from an outside client we run it thru Speedflow and then put it into Creator. We are on a pc platform.
-Just a few thoughts
Lynn Zindler

-----Original Message-----
From: creator-bounces at wacondatrader.com [mailto:creator-bounces at wacondatrader.com] On Behalf Of Peter Stremic
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:43 PM
To: creator at wacondatrader.com
Subject: Re: Strange PDF header? problem

Want to send problem PDF?

I'd like to look at it.

peterpica at comcast.net


On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Brad Crocker wrote:

> 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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