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It's fuzzy because you are printing a 300dpi raster image on a device that is at least 600dpi and image interpolation will yield either fuzziness or step-casing. And if the printer is further converting your .png to JPEG, for example, expect image artifacts as well. - Dov

A printer that will only accept 300dpi raster files for covers and no PDF? That makes no sense whatsoever and is certainly not acceptable workflow much less best practice. Of course 300dpi text is going to look fuzzy wuzzy! Best advise is to find a new printer with workflows matching the...

If I had a dime for every time I've heard “but it looks great on the screen” I'd be quite rich by now … :confused: - Dov

Since you brought up Adobe … I'll repeat what I've said numerous times in many threads on this and other forums. There is vey little that either Adobe or any other vendor can do with regards to this update / upgrade issue. If you buy a new computer, especially a Mac, you are pretty much forced...

Creating PDF from InDesign via creation of PostScript and distilling into PDF is anything but best practice given that the resultant PDF files (1) are not color managed and (2) have all transparency flattened which is fairly device-dependent and can not only leave flattening artifacts but also...

To repeat, there is no trapping feature in InDesign for exported PDF. If you are seeing something that “looks like” trapping, it is the result of manual overprinting applied in the design itself. - Dov

If you create PDF from InDesign using the standard method of PDF creation File=>Export => Adobe PDF (print) as opposed to creating PostScript and distilling that into PDF, there is no way of automatically creating traps in InDesign. Trapping from InDesign is a legacy PostScript workflow feature...

Let me clarify. When you save an Illustrator file as PDF with the Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities option, you are creating a single file with effectively two copies of your Illustrator artwork. The first is the PDF content that you see in Acrobat and that is actually placed in...

You actually are not really placing Illustrator into InDesign. You are placing the PDF aspect of a .AI file into InDesign. InDesign has no “smarts” for interpreting Illustrator's private data within a PDF file. The problem is that if you edit a PDF file in Acrobat that has that Illustrator...

That would definitely affect the size of PDF files saved from Illustrator (I would strongly discourage placing Illustrator files themselves into InDesign) although the following is true: (1) When PDF is placed into InDesign, any and all of the Illustrator source “Pieceinfo” data in such PDF is...

There is no particular preference in Acrobat or InDesign that will necessarily make any difference in terms of performance. You indicate that the InDesign documents have “a bajillion illustrator points in them.” I assume from that comment that the InDesign document has a tremendous number of...

For a product and an individual installation so new, I would suspect that you would be better off getting on the phone and contacting Xerox support. - Dov

You would be best off contacting the company providing that plug-in since they probably have more insight into how it operates than anyone here would! :rolleyes: - Dov

The good news and I guess the bad news is that the window and message you see has nothing to do with the base Acrobat product itself. In other words, nothing from Adobe produces that message. What if any plug-ins (or even Javascripts) have you installed in Acrobat? That seems like the only...

I am not justifying subscriptions versus so-called “perpetual licenses” (more on that below), but the facts are the facts. Nothing that I stated was “fake news” or “libel” in any way whatsoever. The vendor is absolutely not an Authorized Adobe Reseller and you may find issues with the serial...

Be aware that the company referenced above is not an Authorized Adobe Reseller and it is exceptionally unlikely that they are selling “Genuine Full Retail Versions of the Software” – if they were, they would be shipping you the actual retail packing of the product, not a pointer to a download...

Thanks. Info and files most appreciated such that we can figure out what is going on here! - Dov

You say “latest version Illustrator file” – exactly what version of Illustrator are you referring to? The CS6 version of Illustrator was released seven years ago. What happens if you open up that PDF file in what is indeed the latest version of Illustrator, version 23.0.3 (2019)? Same problem or...

There are a few issues here First, what do you mean by PDF 5/1.4. There is no such beast! We will assume PDF 1.4 which was the latest version of PDF supported by Acrobat 5. There is a tremendous difference between the Acrobat release number and the PDF version number. Similarly, there is no PDF...

It carefully analyzes the image and works exceptionally well. The code exists not only in PDF export/save from InDesign and Illustrator, but also in the Distiller in converting PostScript to PDF! - Dov