White Lines Around Text

**john713** · 27 June 2008, 10:05 PM

ok. I think I figured it out. I changed the advanced features to PDF/X 3 instead of 1 and they are gone now.

Thank you very much for your help.

John

**raynerj1** · 27 June 2008, 10:53 PM

Looks like a link in the PDF snapshot. Did you have a web address assigned in the xara file? I didn't downlod your file.

**steve.ledger** · 27 June 2008, 10:57 PM

Now that would be cool.. Tap the business card with your finger and the card displays their website..

**David O'Neil** · 27 June 2008, 11:00 PM

PS - It may be worth reporting this to Xara by means of a support ticket, as it may be an issue with that type of PDF export. I know that I wouldn't want those lines either, and would be quite upset about the wasted printing costs (although I would check the PDF before I sent it to the printer).

**john713** · 27 June 2008, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by sledger

Now that would be cool.. Tap the business card with your finger and the card displays their website..

You know that is coming some day.

**gwpriester** · 28 June 2008, 12:33 AM

Your Xara file has a white outline around the text. So, it is not surprising that the PDF has them too.

**steve.ledger** · 28 June 2008, 01:24 AM

The white lines are 'rectangles' around the text boxes, not the letters themselves Gary (which are deliberate)

See the screenshot in post #1

**alexbozhenov** · 28 June 2008, 03:07 AM

It's also very interesting to examine _your_ PDF file with outlines )
Also, I don't think this is worth to report Xara -- there is not a miracle at all in those white lines, most likely some mistakes from at user end... Want to see the PDF...

**john713** · 28 June 2008, 04:17 AM

I guess I should have posted this.

http://www.christiantechnologysoluti...BCRE052908.pdf

Sorry, it's large so I couldn't upload it. When you first look at the PDF you can't see them, but when you zoom in you can. At 300% zoom you can see the horizontal line and at 400% zoom you can see the vertical line after the domain name.

Also, the second image on post 1 was a scan of the printed biz card, so you can see the result after it was printed.

John

**steve.ledger** · 28 June 2008, 05:01 AM

Loading your PDF into Xtreme shows the background bitmap is sliced into many very narrow horizontals.

Loading your original .xar file shows you have position 4 tiles of Bitmap2.
Not sure why it should make a difference, but it seems be better to create your 3.82 x 2.23in rectangle and use Bitmap2 as a repeating fill.
Once I did this, exporting as PDF/X showed none of those white lines at any zoom, and neither did the PDF import back into Xtreme all sliced up.

I also had Xtreme crash while exporting (the original) as PDF/X