Re: Help with Quark
Two points seem important in all of this:
1 Flattening - while not necessarily a bad thing, with customer approval via Acrobat and the problem with "Smooth linework" preference in it, you continually get customers coming back and asking what the feint white lines are (and you're never 100% sure they aren't going to appear on output).
2 Complete transparency supported solutions are the way forward. I was disappointed to find that Quark had implemented some transparency and then stuck to a flattened output for everything. You should really be able to make PDF1.4> PDF from Quark but it don't.
Two points seem important in all of this:
1 Flattening - while not necessarily a bad thing, with customer approval via Acrobat and the problem with "Smooth linework" preference in it, you continually get customers coming back and asking what the feint white lines are (and you're never 100% sure they aren't going to appear on output).
2 Complete transparency supported solutions are the way forward. I was disappointed to find that Quark had implemented some transparency and then stuck to a flattened output for everything. You should really be able to make PDF1.4> PDF from Quark but it don't.