Re: PDF/x anomalies
scottmcll,
I see your point.
The difference is Xtreme render your image with shadow as a bitmap but trying to stay with your rectangle as vector. But by the nature of PDF/x, all transparencies should be rendered as a bitmap with no transparencies ).
When you are exporting as PSD, your image include your shadow. So in AI your image and its shadow is the one object.
When exporting from Xtreme, your shadow is rendered as separate object etc.
See attached files.
The first is your PDF/x (I added dark background) in the AI -- we have 4 objects -- shadow, rectangle fill, rectangle stroke, your image. Notice the piece of your rectangle with orange stroke under your image -- this thing I was trying to explain ))) -- this is rasterization of transparent areas when PDF/x.
Now, the solution -- you have to convert to bitmaps all your objects with transparent areas before exporting as PDF/x.
See the second attach - the first object (above) is your original, the second (below) was converted to bitmap (True color + Alpha @ 300dpi) before exporting )))
I hope, you got a sense )
Lead designer,
MichelMour LLC
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