Unable to Save Photoshop PDF

[Nick Danger]

@ Nick Danger -- user did mention --> "MacOS 10.6.8 with Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 x32"

- and why would this ONLY happen when SAVING AS PHOTOSHOP PDF THEN - would that not be true of any "Save as" format ?

That would be true (if he has successfully done "Save as" formats)

[Visualaid]

I'm having trouble, for the first time ever, saving/exporting pdf's out of indesign & illustrator.
After the pdf is made and viewed, some of the items dropped completely off of the file. For example, a letter-size flyer has a black background, when pdf is made and viewed the black background is gone. I don't understand what is happening here but I've never had trouble with pdf creation before and I've made large complicated files into pdf's before.
Anyone know what's going on here. I'm running 10.6.8; everything is up-to-date.

[Lukas Engqvist]

@visualaid
Is overprint preview on or simulated? Are you mixing spot and process colours and transparency?

[Visualaid]

@lukas
i checked those things and no. overprint not checked, spots and process not mixed, but in past i've been able to mix and still have a successful pdf.

[Lukas Engqvist]

@visualaid
Sorry maybe I wasn't clear Overprint preview should be enabled.
I'd be happy to see if I can figure it out, but would been to see the file.
It is not that the obejct/objects are set to non-printing or in a template layer?
The dissapearing objects are similar in size to the pasteboard?
Try exporting to a PDFx1a or PDFx4, see if it helps.

[Visualaid]

@visualaid
Sorry maybe I wasn't clear Overprint preview should be enabled.
I'd be happy to see if I can figure it out, but would been to see the file.
It is not that the obejct/objects are set to non-printing or in a template layer?
The dissapearing objects are similar in size to the pasteboard?
Try exporting to a PDFx1a or PDFx4, see if it helps.

thank you lukas, when i run into this again i will upload to this thread and you can check it out.

[Visualaid]

lukas, just ran into again, this time exporting pdf out of indesign.
its a simple illustrator file that is losing tan background when creating pdf.
take a look

it won't let me upload the .ai file. so instead i've uploaded the pdf that is losing its background.

[Lukas Engqvist]

@visualaid, it's hard to see where there is supposed to be the lost background. The Pdf has one pandone colour that covers the whole document (Pantone 475 @ 75% opacity, at group level) and text (converted to outlines) + frame in Pantone 195. If you like you can pm a zip file of the ai so I can compare it.