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Alright, I think I have it. The effect that was used was 'overlay' and 75%. If I switch it to normal mode and 25% then the pdf outputs correctly. I also changed the color from CMYK to a Spot color used in the job. Thanks everyone for your help. Matt B.

The job came in as a spot color job. I went into the InDesign file and changed the transparent areas to 0% of a spot color. I exported a new pdf, 1.6, and still nothing. That is all I have tried so far, I am going to try a few more things. Matt B. P.S. One thing I just noticed, and don't...

I will give your suggestions a try and let you know tomorrow, thanks, Matt B.

We are Trueflow 3.401.136

One thing we have discovered is that if we convert the whole job to CMYK then the effect does show up, so maybe we will try and talk the customer in to a 4 color process job if we cannot figure anything else out. Matt B.

I have a 4 spot color job that has a transparency overlay effect to make the job look like there are spot lights lighting up the logo. When I open the PDF in Reader, with over print on, I loose the effect. If I turn off overprint the the effect shows up. Of course when I run the job through...

Re: older files from 1996 Thanks for trying everyone, I really appreciate it. I did not realize the files were that old, 1996 does not seam that long ago. Matt

Re: older files from 1996 Thanks for trying anyway, I really appreciate it. Matt

Re: older files from 1996 This is a zip file containing 4 files: http://rapidshare.com/files/131103682/Certificate.zip.html If nothing else, the eps files would be great to have. Thanks for all the help. Matt B.

Re: older files from 1996 The forum will not allow me to up load the files here, I can forward an email. Matt B.

Re: older files from 1996 I am currently working on a PC, the graphic artist tried what he could on the mac . I really appreciate everybody help, I am gonna try something like text wrangler for the pc. I emailed myself the files so I could try a few things at home. Does anybody want to try...

Re: older files from 1996 this is what distiller says: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: «Í ]%% %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% Matt B

Re: older files from 1996 Yes, and distiller does not likethe eps files. I am using Distiller 8. matt B.

I have three eps files from 1996 and one unknown file and I cannot openthem in anything that we have. They could be either mac of pc, any ideas? matt

Re: Acrobat Professional 8, crop marks Here is what I found out so far: I opend Pitstop and using global change, define page boxes, the measurements are listed as 4.25x5.75 instead of 5.75x4.24. So I am thinking MSD might be right, when the customer created the PDF, it was portrait not...