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What the? Is this for real?
Okay, this had my boss and I cracking up Friday afternoon. It's almost like CS2 is trying to bully or tease me. Here's the schtick..... I've got a page in InDesign that refuses to RIP correctly. I mean, it makes the correct looking DCS file and prints from a laser printer but when I send it to our DuPont IG4 it fails and separates into 2 cyan plates.
Now, I'm no stranger to this sort of problem. We get them much more often in Quark (big surprise) but they usually make some sense. Not with InDesign. After a few hours of trouble shooting I've narrowed down the problem. Here it is.... wait for it.....
InDesign doesn't like where a certain image at a certain size is on the page. That's it. The page fails at the proofer only when the image is in the spot it is at the size it is. I've shrunk it, enlarged it, rotated it, and moved it and it works every time. Just not where it is at it's current size. I've even tried recreating the image, resaving it and replacing it and it's frame in InDesign.... no luck.
So, instead of boring all you with my story I'll say this. It's basically a Photoshop EPS image (not really, but for explanation sake it's close enough) with a clipping path. We use these all the time so I don't see it being the problem. It was hanging off the edge of the page (sloppy design) but that wasn't it (didn't think it was but I was desperate). It's placed at about 167% of it's original size (again, sloppy design, it's only 300 dpi) but I've made it work larger and smaller as well in the same spot. I've even kept it the same size and just moved it and it worked. We are working pretty much with a PDF workflow using ID presets to PDF to hot folders in Nexus 7.5.
So, if anyone has any ideas as to why InDesign might dislike an image at certain coordinates at a certain size I'd love to hear what you have to say. I'll keep plugging away. I'm very curious indeed.
Thanks,
~Soilworker :twisted:
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