InDesign help! step & repeat export problem

[wentworth]

hey thanks oxburger will check out your preset. Will save me mucking around with distiller! Dont really wanna try anything new on this job when i dont really know what im doing

[wentworth]

nope something definatley wrong on my end. I loaded your preset and still same problem. Are you using CS3 also?

[Shawn]

Hi Wentworth

What happens if you go to the original Illustrator file and Expand the pattern (from the object menu)? This should change it from an Illustrator repeating pattern object to just a bunch of drawn vectors. My guess is the pattern fill is what's confusing InDesign when you try to make your PDF. It might be trying to optimize things and messing up by applying the starting point to the entire page instead of to each element.

I've seen this type of thing before with Packaging work that was done in Illustrator. As the nested box artwork was copied and moved down the page the background pattern repeated in different ways on each box since the x and y coordinates were going by the overall page instead of on each element.

Shawn

[oxburger]

CS5 Wentworth. Hope you get it worked out.

[oxburger]

Just out of curiousity, are you exporting across a network? or to your desktop?

[wentworth]

oxburger the first time i was exporting across a network, but the last few times no. But since i havent been exporting across the network i probably have only saved to the desktop rather than where i usually save my designs. Is that a factor? Ill give it a try not saving to desktop also.
shawn i think your right expanding the pattern would probably fix it but i just didnt want to do that. But i guess i can do that before exporting without saving. I could just see myself messing up and saving it and closing it by mistake.

[prepressRob]

I recently had a similar situation. A shopping bag compiled in InDD CS5, consisting of a dieline (AI CS5 eps) live text from InDD, and a background gingham pattern built in AI CS5. All looked fine in the indd file, but in the exported PDF, the background pattern moved up .375". I thought reference point as well. I even tried to counter-shift it. The counter shifted file produced a PDF with the pattern right where I put it - .375" off in the other direction! I saved the AI file (background pattern) as eps and re-linked to it, problem solved. I don't know why it worked - but it did and we were able to proceed.

[WiseGuy]

I would be curious to see how PDF imposing software handles this, rather than imposing in InDesign (Kodak Preps, Dynagram Inp02, Quite Imposing etc).
Regards,
Stephen Marsh

I got the sample file and will try it in inpO2.

Michael Reiher
Dynagram

[WiseGuy]

Here's what it did in inpO2. Seemed to work fine.

Michael

[wentworth]

so its definatley an InDesign problem then and not limited to just CS3.
prepressRob thanks ill try saving out the whole design as eps and placing into illustrator see if that works.