The problem is with Acrobat Pro X. Really getting sick of this. I am ready to dump it and go back to 9.
Linked is another "Corrupt" font after Flattening:
https://acrobat.com/#d=EY8hFfGtMn*PvpIJcHfLUA
We are still investigating here as we cannot duplicate this...
The new behavior (ignore) is correct. Separation All is a special thing and should never be converted.
Hey Leonard, why should Separation All never be converted to grayscale?
Oh well, seems like another workaround. I can no longer just use the Flatten transparency Fix, but must use one of the other Profiles that happens to incorporate it. Those more inclusive Profiles have pitfalls of their own in terms of unexpected results. I find the granular control of using individual fixups is essential when working with many PDFs.It appears that if you run the flattener by itself, as opposed to as part of a conversion to one of the PDF standards (such as PDF/X or PDF/A), then it will invoke additional font optimizations that are perfectly valid for "regular" PDF. As such, we are not inclined to correct it since it is doing it's job of producing the best possible PDF that it can, given all the information it has.
Because Separation All means that the object should appear on ALL plates but doesn't actually have a real color associated with it. Converting it to grayscale will cause it to appear ONLY on the black plate.
Stick it on your favorite file sharing site - DropBox, Acrobat.com, etc. and post the URL
The ink manager has a shortcoming (ink manager is the same in convert colours, or if you click on the ink bottle to get directly to it or approach it from the output preview or the advanced print dialogue) that the colours are not previewed as swatches. But the ink manager was designed so that you see if it is spot or process. If you use the output preview you can see the colours (if you need to see colour swatches to explain the name) Maybe in future we will be able to see something like the recolour artwork? Some of us are so seldom in those dialogue boxes because we do that part of the process in the RIP rather than in Acrobat.
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