PDF from illustrator cs

[SigPho]

Ok, here's my situation. I am working on a G4 with the Adobe Creative Suite. I am trying to print my 12x18 poster to a pdf to send to my project manager. I go to print in Illustrator and it says it's printing page one. Then when it's done printing I can't find it anywhere. I don't know where the computer put the file, if anywhere.

I also do some of my work on a Dell PC with Illustrator 10. On this computer when I want to print to a pdf I go print, select Adobe pdf and the computer brings up a save dialogue box so I always know where the file ends up.

Help would be greatly appreciated! I searched for some time to see if this topic has been brought up before but found nothing. If it has been covered, please point me in the direction of that thread and excuse this post.

Thanks!

[SigPho]

So, don't you hate it when you figure out a problem right after you ask it on a forum? Some glitch with the Mac I'm working on made my computer stop printing jobs.

I do have another question now. Has anyone ever experienced thin white lines when printing from another adobe program to a pdf? It happens to me a more often than it should, and clients don't always understand why it won't show up on their printed pieces even though it's on the document they look at on their monitors.

Thanks in advance.

[D-Frag]

I dont know how to solve your problems, but one thing im noticing lately, is more 'problems' arising with macs, then pc's. im just glad I don't have to put up with all the stuff you macs gotta deal with...but then again i also get 15+ viral emails a day...oh well, just cant win




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[snypa]

yeah, it's like playing leapfrog with a unicorn

I'm not a real graphic designer, but I do play one on tv

[D-Zine]

SigPho - those white lines could have something to do with the memory. Bump up your memory in whatever program yer making those PDFs from and try that.

How much ram you got in that G4?

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[SigPho]

D-Zine, I have 1 gig of ram. I'm not sure how to up the memory in illustrator. /emoticons/huh.gif I did change the primary scratch disk from startup to mac hd and the secondary from none to vid hd. I then reprinted the pdf. Some of the lines are gone, but those annoying thin lines still show up where the text box boarders would be. Does that make sense how I explained it? I hope so.
Sidenote, the company is upgrading my system to panther. Will this help at all?
Thanks for the feedback all!

[PrintDriver]

The only graphics program I know of right now that you can play with memory settings in OSX is Photoshop. Everything else has been like autopilot. It's something to do with the way OSX uses ram now.

You don't say which CS program you are using. When I create pdfs for clients to see from Illy, I don't print them, I 'save as' pdf. You can Export pdfs from InD. Never had white line probs.
Do you use frame edges (view) on or off? Don't know if that's the problem.

PrintDriver is a large format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing

Post Edited (PrintDriver) : 6/24/2004 5:41:59 PM GMT

[SigPho]

The white lines must be my own personal curse. InDesign was just horrible to me on my PC when I made pdfs. I was printing them, maybe I should have just exported them. It was sooooo annoying because the pdf had to go onto a programmed cd rom that we did. What we finally did was move the file from PC to Mac. The lines were no longer there. So, when these lines showed up in Illustrator CS on the Mac I was quite irritated.

But, I must say thank you for your help everyone! PrintDriver, I tried first with hiding edges. That still had the lines show up. Then I just saved the .ai as a .pdf. Voila! They are gone! Thanks so much! /emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[Mirror]

Why not search for the PDF?

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[SigPho]

I tried that Mirror. That's why i couldn't understand what happened. They were just gone....weird.