how do i save fades & drop shadows to pdf please?

[Tim Painter]

Maybe convert all the gradients to bitmaps?

Have you only recently had the problem with imported images Hugh?

[Chris Wool]

hugh part of the problem is the drop shadow is a bit map, better if separated away from the active object. exporting in rgb or cmyk alters the appearance. also if doing on a lap top screen and adjusting the density seen on the screen often give poor results in print.

chris

[Tim Painter]

Chris I recall Hugh creates his own ( I could be wrong).

As you say Chris if you use the built in drop shadow in draw it’s best to separate it.

Hugh if your talking about gradient fills it’s best to convert to a bitmap.

[Hugh Potter]

hi guys, thankyou. yes.. seperated the shadow.

i normally make my own drop shadows when using solid colour. but this is the drop shadow tool,

fountain fills usually print ok, but i’ve noticed that the drop shadows often band.

i’ve printed an ai file to see if it was the printer, but it was fine. as was the cdr file i printed afterwards. seems a bit intermittent.

it just seems that on the mighty bright logo i’ve done, it bands, or puts an odd, transparent fill on it, not a gradient like the drop shadow should be.

i think!

[Hugh Potter]

ok, just printed a large version of the mighty bright file, which i’ll post up on the relevant thread on the help forum,

what happens is that the drop shadow efect is working, but, it for some reason, prints a black background (blacker than the blackest black i can give it) behind.

[Richard Urquhart]

Hugh I get this and the only way i have solved things is to save the file as a tiff and then if i need to cut lay the cutpath over the top and save as an eps file
I have made some nice graphics and saved as a PDF File sent to the rip and printed end points where the drop shadow ends.

[Hugh Potter]

how do save it as a tiff in corel? i wasn’t sure there was that option in the drop down menu, slao i can’t see a way to save a corel page as a jpeg. seems a rather simple option to have missed!

[Chris Wool]

hugh select your graphic and export, pick jpeg or tiff.
options to save as a name and resolution select 1-1 and 300 dpi for your fishing rod card, normally switch on the ICC profile tick box.

import it back in to corel to see what you have dome

on the bigger stuf i use jpeg high res/quality as i cant see the difference of using a tiff bigger file size. but for high quality stuff you should use a tiff (no compression involved at all).

chris

[Pat Byrne]

Hi Hugh,
You need to export as whatever file format you need, File/Export
Hope this helps
Pat

[Hugh Potter]

thanks Chris and Pat, seems to work, just need to tweek the artwork some now!

cheers.

Hugh

[Alan Drury]

Regarding drop shadows in Draw V12, break the shadow from the text/object, edit it in in PhotoPaint and change it to ‘multiply’ it is currently ‘normal’ this will ensure the black overprints and not ‘knock out’ this may improve other printing too. X3 and X4 was changed to multiply by default and supports spot colour shadows. V12 will always try and convert to CMYK and you’ll probably get a warning of this. If transparencies are over another object the underlying part will be converted to a bitmap.
Alan D

[Hugh Potter]

Thank you Alan,
so that will lose the heavy black contour it’s producing?

Hugh

[Alan Drury]

I’m not sure I am understanding the contour you are referring to, can you post a picture or send me a file. I have to say that X3 did greatly improve the drop shadow part as well as the pdf and ai import filters.
Alan D

[Hugh Potter]

quote Alan Drury:

I’m not sure I am understanding the contour you are referring to, can you post a picture or send me a file. I have to say that X3 did greatly improve the drop shadow part as well as the pdf and ai import filters.
Alan D

HI Alan,

if you look in the design help forum, i’ve posted a pdf which illustrates the problem, the thread is, i think, titled "design help, i’m at a loss",
thanks.
hugh