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Lorem_Ipsum · #1 (**permalink**) 11-28-2005, 04:48 PM

I beseech aid from Wizards of Pre-press.

The dept. received a small booklet created in CorelDraw 12. It was saved as a pdf from Corel. No working files were sent, just the pdf. (We don't have CorelDraw).

Ripping problems ensued. It was imposed in Preps and appears okay until it is trapped. The results are missing one-colour boxes (used in the design) and some 2-coloured logos lost a colour (white outline) and appeared filled in.

The artist insists this job has been successfully printed before.

I am stumped.
Any thoughts or ideas?

With eternal gratitude,
Lorem

Tybo · #2 (**permalink**) 11-28-2005, 06:42 PM

Without having Corel, I don't think you are going to fix all your problems, even in Pitstop.

Throw the job back at the Client and ask them to save the Corel file as an Illustrator file with text as text(and the fonts supplied of course). This is all assuming you have Illustrator.

If this is all goes according to plan, open the file in Illustrator but do not update the legacy text, leave as is. This will mean you should be able to fix everything in Illustrator, and not have to worry about Corel. Print a postcript out of Illustrator, then distill it, or save the AI file as an EPS then place it into an In Design page and export the PDF. This will get back to where you were, except you can go back at anytime.

I can't imagine there would be any problem with preps imposition, and cannot understand your trap problem. I'm guessing though that the reason the colours are not showing is that they are spot, or that they are overprints and they have been discarded. You could try select them in Pitstop and run a convert to CMYK action, but that won fix your other problems.

Lorem_Ipsum · #3 (**permalink**) 11-28-2005, 07:18 PM

Thank you. That is a good idea.

I had hoped the client would have used Acrobat to make the pdf, but he didn't have it. Sigh.

jimking · #4 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005, 05:54 AM

Or you can ask the client to just "export as eps" out of corel and send you those files. You can then place them in quack or indy and then try those out. If it works great, however, if it doesn't then you have the option like Tybo stated, you can then open it in illy.

mattbeals · #5 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005, 07:48 AM

Use the PDF optimizer that is built into Acrobat 7 to save it down to like PDF v1.4 and use the cleanups that in there. Then preflight it vigorously with PitStop. Best thing they, the customer can do, is to print to Acrobat Distiller using like the press quality or your supplied distiller joboptions.

tuff_gong · #6 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005, 10:57 AM

Another approach - get the .prn file and distill yourself

Prata · #7 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005, 03:54 PM

all good sugestions no doubt... by the way, doesn't preps impose files other than pdf? eps or ps won't go?

Lorem_Ipsum · #8 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005, 07:55 PM

All great suggestions!!

The end result was taking the pdf to Photoshop. And resaving, then creating new pdfxs from Acrobat.

BTW, customer did not want to help by sending resaved files. He just kept insisting that it could be done. I hope I don't have to work with him again.

As a side note, has anyone had issues resaving Corel files as Illustrator eps?
On a couple occasions, I had slight changes in the file, such as spot colours changing colour.

Migel · #9 (**permalink**) 12-21-2005, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Lorem_Ipsum

All great suggestions!!

The end result was taking the pdf to Photoshop. And resaving, then creating new pdfxs from Acrobat.

BTW, customer did not want to help by sending resaved files. He just kept insisting that it could be done. I hope I don't have to work with him again.

As a side note, has anyone had issues resaving Corel files as Illustrator eps?
On a couple occasions, I had slight changes in the file, such as spot colours changing colour.

I've had problems with Corel files saved as eps and then brought into Quark. I think its usually worth opening them in Illustrator and resaving them.