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Thanks Greg!! This option did the trick. Now, as you mention, I am worried what side effects this is going to have, but, at least I am getting somewhere.

I think I found the area where I can change overprint settings in our Harlequinn RIP. Just not sure what they should be set at. Attached is a screenshot of the settings I found, can someone shed some light on if this looks correct or not? Thanks again for the help!

The file that is created at step 3, shows pretty much what I am seeing with the ad itself. Traditionally, I would use either overprint preview or the separation preview to check using Acrobat. The PDF appears to be fine, I see the knockouts on the red ring, so, using just those tools, I would...

I forgot to mention about our soft proofing, we are able to look at the TIFF files before they get sent to our CTP machines using FirstProof Pro. So, technically we would be able to catch this, but, things do slip by here and there, and I like to try to be able to catch a lot of these issues...

Thanks for the replies! I think you partly answered my question, I was somewhat under the assumption that when a PDF was created that had knockouts on it, that it actually removed what was there, instead of 'dynamically' figuring out what needed to be knocked out. I think you guys are right...

---If I view the seps in Acrobat 9 Professional, the silhouette vector object is knocking out. So that's sort of my problem. When I view the separations in Acrobat, the red ring is getting knocked out by the silhouette. When it prints, the red behind the silhouette is still there. The only...

I work at a newspaper, and we ran into an issue today where a customer's ad did not print correctly. The issue was that a vector object didn't get knocked out correctly. There is this silhouette of a person on sorta jumping through a red ring on the bottom left, and the person isn't knocking...

Re: Quick solution to a scary PDF mess? ...help... Well, if, lets say the chapter numbers are in the same spot on the document for each page, you could get the size of the page, make that same sized page in InDesign, place the page on the document, then place a text box over the bad chapter...