Saw blade teeth around the perimeter of my image

[Fran]

Could someone please take a look at the attached file, and let me know if you have come across this issue. The Image looks great on the preview screen on my rip pc, but on the film the image has all these saw blade looking teeth on it. I currently have an accuset 1000 imagesetter with a Xitron rip, but I have ruled out that the rip or my laser is the issue. I'm stumped and pretty much down as far as outputting any film. HELP HELP HELP

Fran

[WiseGuy]

Hummm.... remove the table saw from your processor? That's one way to "rip" a file!

Just being cute... sounds like a roller somewhere or the film is bad?

[couriergraphics]

how many colors are in the build is it just one color possibly on the 45 degree angle?

[gordo]

Can you post the original image file?
(this does not look like a screening issue)

gordon p

[mattbeals]

I haven't seen an issue like this since way back with Quark 4/5 and TIFF's being placed in a frame with a color of "none". We'd see jaggies like this on the outside edges (that touched the background color "none") of an image but the interior would be pristine. The fix back then was to set the box fill color to 0% of a process color.

[VladCanada]

Some white lines on the letters say me that's an APIS cable o RIP board problem.
Output internal test and look at 50% fields and header text - the same saw?

[Fran]

I have attached a pdf of the original file. It is just a one color ~ 100% k. I appreciate the feed back, and any suggestions. I wish I could remove the table saw. lol The file is in Illustrator CS4 which is ripped in as a one color file. Like I said it looks like it should on the preview screen, but after it's all said and done it ends up with the saw blade looking teeth all over...

[Fran]

Can you post the original image file?
(this does not look like a screening issue)

gordon p

Origianl file attached.

[thomaus]

this thread seems to suggest problems with CS4 PDFs and Acrobat 8. What version are you using.

Also, have you tried getting a version of the PDF with the fonts embedded, instead of outlined?

[Fran]

I currently use the CS4 suite. The original pdf file had the fonts embedded, the pdf file attached is a pdf of the Illustrator file. Hypothetically speaking do you think if I run the original pdf with the fonts embedded through CS3 that will solve my problem, because now I'm trying to think when the saw teeth started versus when we switched over to CS4?? Hmmmm I'm going to have to experiment..