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Depends what you mean by “amalgamated.” Any tool worth its license would correctly handle combining PDF files which are inconsistent with whether they were created with their fonts embedded or not. That being the case, it would behoove the OP, @SoggyWinter to run the appropriate Preflight...

Conceivably you could add this information within InDesign, placing it outside of the page's BleedBox but within the page's MediaBox.

You would be surprised!

To be very clear, Adobe Illustrator is not, repeat is not, repeat once again is not a general purpose PDF file editor. There are many features and options in the PDF specification that are not at all supported by Adobe Illustrator including support for a mixture of CMYK and RGB colorspaces (ICC...

There are many preflight profiles in both Acrobat Preflight as well as Pitstop, but neither of the profiles you chose checked for unembedded fonts. That is the problem with your PDF file. It references fonts that are not actually embedded in the PDF file, in this case members of the Arial...

In theory, if you take the exact same InDesign document that you have on a Mac and then migrate the source documents and resources over to a Windows-based system running the same version of InDesign, the PDF files generated from the Windows-based system should match exactly the PDF files...

Endorsing @abc response. If there is a “layer” in the PDF file, Acrobat Pro will let you see it and if you desire, disable it for printing. @wonderings, note that Adobe Illustrator is absolutely not a PDF file editor, unless the original PDF file was saved from Illustrator with the option for...

@kdw75, I got similar results to those of @abc when I ran Acrobat Pro's inventory of the file. The ad agency may be very punctual and a pleasure to deal with, but they clearly are going overboard in terms of gratuitous use of gradients (i.e., the “smooth shades”). I suspect that the graphic...

The output of the Audit Space Usage is exceptionally helpful! What dramatically stands out are the 22 megabytes of “shading information” representing nearly 50% of the file size. This may be indicative of a tremendous amount of use of smooth-shaded gradients in your original source file (or...

Generally speaking, although vector graphics can slow down Acrobat (and any other PDF viewer) page rendering, in practice this is generally not the issue unless one is placing exceptionally-detailed and complex content from CAD software such as AutoCAD or even some mapping software. One thing...

@kdw75, From my extensive experience with Acrobat, especially under Windows, I doubt that the slowness you are experiencing has anything to do with your hardware configuration. It is certainly well-enough endowed. Nor do I believe that the problem has anything to do with any Adobe “start-up”...

Absolutely not true! Only PDF files created from Illustrator files for which the Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities option is enabled can be readily edited: Of course, this assumes that any linked content in the original Illustrator file and any fonts used by same are on the system on...

The fact that content pre-converted to CMYK looks “flat and lifeless” is indicative that the EFI RIP is not strictly conforming to ICC color management. It apparently is trying to “improve” the color conversion per EFI's own ideas of what is correct. IIRC, there are options on EFI RIPs to...

Seems like a RIP-specific problem.

Nothing looks wrong to me examining the final PDF file and printing same. However, on a hunch, I made a patch to your final PDF file, removing the transparency group. It shouldn't make a difference, but try downloading the file at ZIP of Modified Test File and let me know whether this eliminates...

Without the actual “final” PDF file along with the original images and InDesign or Illustrator file(s), it is virtually impossible to know what is going on. That having been said, the moment you get transparency groups into the equation, all bets are off since it is possible that color space...

That product may be able to interpret large portions of the ISO PDF specification, especially the portion that is relevant to graphic arts, but its file format is definitely not pure PDF nor is the software capable of handling many facets of features available in PDF.

Didn't say that; didn't imply that!

Note that I am no longer an Adobe employee, but since PDF has features that aren't available in Illustrator and Illustrator has features that aren't part of the PDF specification, I don't see that ever happening. Note that FWIW, the real native file format for Illustrator is private data stored...