BUG: Overprint error with dotted lines

[behzad]

Draw a dotted line, set it to overprint with a pantone solid color (can be any color)

now

Draw a straight line, set it to overprint with a pantone solid color as above.

export as pdf/-x

open in acrobat pro, then check overprint and you will see that dotted line will not overprint.

[Albacore]

Can I ask 2 questions here, since you are using spot colour. I take in Acro you kept these as spot colours in the separations dialogue. Did you run a Pre-flight check on PDF x/1? I did what you asked and can see overprinting where the lines cross so I cant replicate that at the moment however I did rush it! The line colour shows colour change when I selected "output preview", deselect process colours as it is for spot colours, then select "preview Colour warnings" and the check the "Show overprinting" in the warnings field.

[behzad]

okay here is a sample pdf/-x1
open it in acrobat pro, set it to show simulate overprinting

you can see that the dotted line is not overprint, even though it was set to overprint in xara.

[Albacore]

Yes I agree that it is a bug in the PDF export as all you need to do is to bring the file into Illy and give it on Overprint Line in the Attributes panel and re-save it and then it works. There are a few other problems here as it depends on the stroke type that you select whither the export does it as a line or an object. In a recent newsletter I did I used broken lines which werevery thick as separator on a heading and did not have any problems after doing a preflight and it printed well. Tend not to use Acro but Illy to soft proof PDF files made in XPro. Maybe worth while to make out a ticket at http://support.xara.com/

[behzad]

Thanks

[behzad]

Apparently the line should be converted to shape first.