hi
When Adobe started to put the viewing of transparencies and overprints we where very glade, it started with Acrobat 7 I think. But there was 1 big problem...
To view these overprints you had to 1st change a setting in the preferences to be able to see it. Problem here is we had to invest allot of time and money to explain to our clients, how and where they had to change it.
And to make it worse, Adobe decided to reorganize their preferences panel in ArcobatReader 8, so we had to start instructing clients again.
So now we have Acrobat 9, and i was reading about it and what did i see?
At last Adobe changed the setting to view transparencies and overprints standard! We said at last! So yesterday I downloaded the brand new AcrobatReader 9 and started testing. .....
Our good mood was soon down to 0:=(
I started to open a Illustrator CS3 file saved with compatible pdf file in it, so i was viewing the 1.5 pdf, and overprints where not in overprint in Acrobat. So i went in to look at the settings, and what do i see there? Adobe has chaged thier menu again en now we have 4 choise to choose frome, and standard is set to "Only for PDF/X Files"', I changed the setting to "Automatic" and the file viewed OK.
I did some more tests, like exporting the Illustrator file to pdf with pdf/X setting, again the overprints where only good with the setting put to "Automatic"
Conclusion, this is gonna cost us and others in the industry again lot of time and money to explain to the clients how to set their new AcrobatReader so they can see our files right. And now the problem is more complex, now they can choose between 4 settings:=(
Questions:
- I realy dont get it why there is a choice for the overprint settings? Dont you always want to see the pdf file like it is made, with transparencies and overprints?
- Why Adobe makes it so difficult to change that setting? Most of our clients are not interested to take a look in the preferences panel, and why should they, we are in a world off WYSIWYG.
I know Dov is wandering around here some time, and I am shure he wil be able to give me a nice awnser on this matter:=).
But still, I hope Adobe will change this in the future, would make things lot easier for all of us.
When Adobe started to put the viewing of transparencies and overprints we where very glade, it started with Acrobat 7 I think. But there was 1 big problem...
To view these overprints you had to 1st change a setting in the preferences to be able to see it. Problem here is we had to invest allot of time and money to explain to our clients, how and where they had to change it.
And to make it worse, Adobe decided to reorganize their preferences panel in ArcobatReader 8, so we had to start instructing clients again.
So now we have Acrobat 9, and i was reading about it and what did i see?
At last Adobe changed the setting to view transparencies and overprints standard! We said at last! So yesterday I downloaded the brand new AcrobatReader 9 and started testing. .....
Our good mood was soon down to 0:=(
I started to open a Illustrator CS3 file saved with compatible pdf file in it, so i was viewing the 1.5 pdf, and overprints where not in overprint in Acrobat. So i went in to look at the settings, and what do i see there? Adobe has chaged thier menu again en now we have 4 choise to choose frome, and standard is set to "Only for PDF/X Files"', I changed the setting to "Automatic" and the file viewed OK.
I did some more tests, like exporting the Illustrator file to pdf with pdf/X setting, again the overprints where only good with the setting put to "Automatic"
Conclusion, this is gonna cost us and others in the industry again lot of time and money to explain to the clients how to set their new AcrobatReader so they can see our files right. And now the problem is more complex, now they can choose between 4 settings:=(
Questions:
- I realy dont get it why there is a choice for the overprint settings? Dont you always want to see the pdf file like it is made, with transparencies and overprints?
- Why Adobe makes it so difficult to change that setting? Most of our clients are not interested to take a look in the preferences panel, and why should they, we are in a world off WYSIWYG.
I know Dov is wandering around here some time, and I am shure he wil be able to give me a nice awnser on this matter:=).
But still, I hope Adobe will change this in the future, would make things lot easier for all of us.