Logo disappearing on PDF once RIP'd

[Sherbert]

Hey guys,

We use a HP Indigo 5000 with an onboard Harlequin RIP.

This file that I have attached has a BAcC Logo on the 2nd page of the PDF. Well when ripped this logo just disappears completely.

Done my usual checks and I can't see anything wrong with it so far. I have asked for the native files so I can at least see how it was put together.

What do you think?

 

[beermonster]

i'll get back to ya - i have hq rip - gonna try it now

 

[beermonster]

ok it's fine on mine xitron navigator hq

how about place the pdf in indy and re-pdf out again - just for the hell of it

or postscript, then pdf again - then rip - see if that cleans it up

or get the logo out, resave, and get back into pdf - my way would be get the logo into illy, drop the pdf into indy, drop new logo over old, pdf out

good luck

 

[Sherbert]

Aye, thats exactly what I would try to fix it beermonster.

Still, strange eh?

 

[michaelejahn]

removed small object sitting on top of that logo

removed small object sitting on top of that logo

wow - lots of objects extending way outside the bounding box ! i used PitStops wireframe viewing tool to find a small box that was positioned over that set of outline objects that represents to logo -- then deleted that object - see if that fixes this problem.

 

[beermonster]

ok sherbert - any of our ideas work?

i dont have pitstop

hey you can always open the whole thing in illy for a laugh (i keed i keed - before the "iily is not a pdf editor" brigade kill me)

 

[Sherbert]

Cheers michaelejahn. Maybe that was it, god knows how they did that.

I chucked it through Indy CS3 and all seems fine now.

 

[Sherbert]

(i keed i keed - before the "iily is not a pdf editor" brigade kill me)

Yeah, I am one of them lot myself teehee

 

[beermonster]

score! good stuff

 

[Sherbert]

wow - lots of objects extending way outside the bounding box ! i used PitStops wireframe viewing tool to find a small box that was positioned over that set of outline objects that represents to logo -- then deleted that object - see if that fixes this problem.

Had a look in Illy Outline View and I can see the same thing. The box also has Overprint Fill/Stroke with a '-' through it. tut.

 

[beermonster]

zoinks! you did what? open a pdf in illy?

omg you will burn for that sir

 

[Sherbert]

I didn't save it

 

[beermonster]

too late - i think <know> the adobe gods are watching.

i for one agree with the adobe gods and believe we should stone the sherbert one for the pdf opening in the illustrator and the checking and stuff

 

[toronar]

Beards, stones ... get your stones here!

Ripped with APPE 2 or Original CPSI - no problem.
Xitron Navigator (Harlequin v7) - no problem.
Just FYI.

 

[michaelejahn]

so, did my fix fix it ?

so, did my fix fix it ?

Had a look in Illy Outline View and I can see the same thing. The box also has Overprint Fill/Stroke with a '-' through it. tut.

So, please - the suspense is killing me - did my fix work ? (also, I do want to tell you that this was not a PDF/X file (should never accept files from anyone that are not PDF/X files IMHO) - and also, when I opened this and turned on Output Preview, the simulation profile was an RGB profile (even though this was a CMYK file) - hummm

 

[Sherbert]

So, please - the suspense is killing me - did my fix work ? (also, I do want to tell you that this was not a PDF/X file (should never accept files from anyone that are not PDF/X files IMHO) - and also, when I opened this and turned on Output Preview, the simulation profile was an RGB profile (even though this was a CMYK file) - hummm

michaelejahn, I tried your PDF and the logo disappeared also. Placing it in Indesign and outputting as a P4P PDF works though =)

 

[beermonster]

haaa@toronar! great film - life of brian - the stoning is awesome

job done sherbert - gotta work harder to catch us out mate

 

[Amer]

Eagle RIP

Eagle RIP

Tried it in Eagle RIP v4 - no problems.
But it's a Chinese RIP - so I guess it's used to that kind of logo