PDF exports not correct

[inphoenix]

I just finished reading the thread about PDF imports but I'm having a problem with X3, 12 and 11 versions of CD. The pdfs that I create do not match a printout from native pgm (CD). The fonts are usually smaller and alignment on the page is different.

Does anyone have any solutions??? I've had to export CD file to .ai to allow my printshop to have an accurate version of the file. IE: 8 up labels — when printed out of .pdf file they do not line up on the page in the proper format for cutting. The top of the file is accurate but everything else moves up as all the text is smaller.

Thanks for any help.

[sallybode]

I know that one thing that can throw a platemaker off and maybe it can have the same effect on .pdf: if you have objects grouped and then drag the edges to fit and do not ungroup, then everything inside the group is a percentage of the height and width of the group. It takes a lot more memory for the platemaker to figure all this out, and it can crash it.

If your grouping is at 100%, it does not matter.

However, it may be effecting the .pdf also. Try being sure that there is not a group at a percentage of size.

[inphoenix]

Sally,
thanks so much for quick response. I'm not quite sure what you mean by group. But if you mean in CD itself then no. I'm cloning the first label to the other seven at precise locations on the page. I have 2 columns with 4 rows (not a table) that is just what it looks like. Each label is 2.75 high and when I clone/duplicate I have the nudge set to 2.75.

[sallybode]

Well, none of that should influence the .pdf unless it isn't text, or is not a standard font.

Why use nudge, when you can copy and move with the transform palette and then use nudge for what you need it to do, move small increments to correct placement by eye.

[inphoenix]

Well, Sally, I agree the .pdf should not be distorted but it is. I'm guessing no one else has had this problem!!! Surely wish I could find a solution. It's gonna make me learn AI and I really don't want to. Oh well!!!

Re: using transformations,,,, I find the nudge much faster and I don't need another docker opened as I have the nudge on my tool bar. Much easier just to change nudge size than mess with another docker window and start changing coordinates there. Just my way of doing it as I was not aware of 'transformation' when I started with CD3.0

[sallybode]

Do you have another means of making .pdf? Download for a trial Acrobat Distiller which comes with Professional and see if it does the same thing.

It makes no sense and my condolences to you if you have to use Illustrator. It is amazing that people can draw in it if you ask me. It is a sad fact that the will to achieve supercedes the ability of the person to hinder them from doing so.

But it is slower to work in, without a doubt.