Recent content by Dov Isaacs

You are absolutely correct. Except for Adobe's print group (the organization that develops and maintains the APPE, AEPE, and PostScript software), absolutely no other part of Adobe has committed to supporting PDF 2.0, PDF/X-6, PDF/A-4, and/or PDF/VT-3. And this includes Adobe Acrobat! If the...

I opened your file. Unless I am really missing something, there isn't any use of transparency at all in the InDesign source file and as such, no transparency to “flatten” in any way. Perhaps you are really equating gradients with transparency? They aren't. Smooth-shaded gradients which you use...

Some thoughts, although you may not like all that I have to say ;) : (1) The PDF file you attached does indeed show text with an actual gradient overlaying a raster image. I can't see exactly what the problem is. (2) One of the reasons I cannot discern the problem is that unless you provide...

And for the “home audience” please tell us exactly what you found? :)

In terms of the original posting by YNot_UK, another factor that could be playing into noted anomalies could be transparency, either explicit or implicit, in the artwork and subsequently in the resultant PDF file. Objects that are in a transparency group could get involved in unexpected...

No such changes were made to Acrobat Pro (or any Acrobat product) “some time early in the DC lifespan.” I was there in the Acrobat engineering organization at that time and was involved with any such decisions that would have affected color and printing. In terms of what was posted by Ynot_UK...

With all due respect, Adobe Color Correction is not “garbage.” It is the basis for color management in millions of RIPs and DFEs using the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) and the Adobe Embedded Print Engine (AEPE) as well as the basis for InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop as well as Acrobat...

This is absolutely untrue. Acrobat Distiller is an integral part of Adobe Acrobat, both on Windows and MacOS. That having been said, “refrying a PDF file” (creating PostScript from PDF and then distilling that to PDF) is not a recommended solution to “fixing” a PDF file. Such “solutions”...

Most regrettably, not! Typically, or at least in the past, Adobe would start supporting PDF subset standards (i.e., PDF/X, PDF/A, etc.) in Acrobat followed by the Adobe content generation applications. Historically, once Adobe was fully supporting these PDF subset standards, other applications...

Simply stated, other than for Adobe's OEM print products, APPE (the Adobe PDF Print Engine) and AEPE (the Adobe Embedded Print engine), as a company, Adobe doesn't (yet) support PDF 2.0 or any derivative standards (PDF/X-6, PDF/VT-3, PDF/A-4) in either Acrobat or any of the Creative Cloud...

Exactly what settings did you use for PDF export? - Dov

I am in violent agreement with that thought!

Quite frankly, all PDF-native RIPs/DFEs (i.e., no internal conversion from PDF to PostScript) based on either Adobe or Global Graphics (i.e., Harlequin) OEM technology from the last 15 years support PDF/X-4-based workflows. Likewise, professional design software (i.e., InDesign, Illustrator...

Maybe they think that “print is dead” or that their remaining customers preparing content for print don't care about this stuff?

Although Acrobat Preflight (and for that matter, Callas pdfToolbox from which Acrobat Preflight is derived) can show a page level Output Intent, the fact is that neither Adobe Acrobat nor any current Adobe application supports the concept of page level Output Intents as required for PDF/X-6...