Weird Resolution Issue - Help PD help

[Danger_Mouse]

Ok this is a first for me...

Sent an ad out via FTP to a publication to run. (PDFX-1a2001)

Its image is a hi res picture of a banker with a background I created myself all in PS then I placed in Indy. Sent to publisher and just got an email of the proof . In the email she has pointed out to me that the top of the bankers head is only 83dpi.

Um...how can this be so, can one part of an image be a lower resolution than the rest (yes its a flattened tiff file? I checked the image and its 300dpi at size...wondering how this happens, how do I fix and if this lady is just crazy.
Never have come across this one before...anyone shed some light for me?

[Kool]

LOL, that's the weirdest thing I ever heard. How would she even know?

Maybe he just has a jaggy looking haircut. ;)

[Danger_Mouse]

Thank you...I thought so as well.

I just went over the file, to make sure I didnt forget to import the hi res image in PS...all good. Actually I had never even worked in low res for this one.

[emucru]

If you preflight your PDF does anything register as under 300 dpi?

[Danger_Mouse]

yup, everything looks perfect to me. No conflicts errors whistle boomBlamos or anything.


***EDIT

ah I just figured it out. I just realized I pre-flighted the wrong PDF so it looked fine. When a coworker used my machine, they changed the PDF settings and the one I sent them wasn't a press PDF and the error showed up in pre-flight.

thanks Emu. I wasn't even going to double check that as I thought I had it covered, you bringing it up made me go back to it and find the issue. Cheers!

[urstwile]

Okay, that is truly bizarre. :confused:

[Craig B]

Weirdest thing I've ever heard Danger Mouse.

[Danger_Mouse]

Well yeah its still weird to me too that one part can be one res and the other part another res.

Regardless with correct PDF settings no more issues in preflight, it should be aight.

[garricks]

When a coworker used my machine, they changed the PDF settings and the one I sent them wasn't a press PDF and the error showed up in pre-flight.

Ah, coworkers. Don'tcha just love em? :mad:

I got tired of temps changing all my palette settings, etc., so I passworded my login and set up a Guest account that they have to use. Now my workspaces stay the way I left them, and all I have to do is go to the Guest account and empty the trash every now and again!

[hewligan]

Am I the only one who, when reading the title of this thread, has an image in their head of Princess Leia saying "Help me Print Driver, you're my only hope!"

[Danger_Mouse]

lol...his avatar is sort of darth vaderish.


I figured if anyone had heard of that issue before it would be him.

[DesignVHL]

garricks, couldn't you just save your pallete settings by saving a workspace? If they are messed up from another user moving them about, just go default back to the workspace you saved for yourself! Thats what I do! They get out of wack evenutally, and its a quick and easy way to revert back to the original workspace you know, and love so much! :)

Same w/ PDF settings! Just save a profile for you to export to! Easy as pie!

[Danger_Mouse]

I really didn't have a need to, very rare someone else is on my machine.
But I might just do that tomorrow...I'm all for a few less clicks.

[PrintDriver]

Who, what, Huh? I was workin'. Sorry.

Actually, I don't accept PDF file submissions for wide format so yer lucky Kool and Emu happened along. ;)

[garricks]

DesignVHL, I can now. I set that up before custom workspaces. And besides, a separate user helps with apps that don't offer custom workspaces.

And custom workspaces won't help solve Danger_Mouse's problem, where the Distiller settings were changed.

It's bad enough they're putting their flu-covered fingers on my keyboard and mouse! LOL :eek:

[LeftBrain Artist]

I've seen just portions of hi res graphics come back in the proofing stage with portions of it downsampled rather severely (83-72dpi) a number of times. It almost always happens because in the native Indy file, there is a nearby object which is layered on top of it which uses some sort of transparency effect - drop shadow, outer glow, .psd file with a transparent background, etc. When you go to print this file, the transparencies are flattened according to Indys transparency flattener settings, which often are set to 83 dpi by default. So anything below the transparent object gets flattened to the edge of the effect plus a bit more. Even text and vectors will be rasterized. You have to make sure when printing to device or postscript that first the transparency flattener presets are set to high resolution, and when you bring up the dialog box for print there's usually an additional transparency flattener option in the advanced setting that should be set to high resolution as well.

Uh, is there Xparency in your file? Or am I just whistlin' Dixie.

[DesignVHL]

DesignVHL, I can now. I set that up before custom workspaces. And besides, a separate user helps with apps that don't offer custom workspaces.

And custom workspaces won't help solve Danger_Mouse's problem, where the Distiller settings were changed.

It's bad enough they're putting their flu-covered fingers on my keyboard and mouse! LOL :eek:


Understandable. And i completely agree, it IS nice to have sep. user accounts.

Funny you mention the flu-covered fingers thing....I got mono in college that way. A guy from my design class was in the lab, and I was waiting for him to finish using the computer so I could do my projects - he was sweatin' and he even told me he didn't feel good - he was a classmate and friend. Turns out the lil F---- had mono, and since I used the keyboard and comp RIGHT after him, I ended up getting mono too, and misssed a month of my first sem. my jr. year of college. It was bad too I ended up really sick! No thanks to sharing computers! If I were in college today though, I am almost positive I would have gotten myself my own computer.

[Danger_Mouse]

Whistle away my friends, whistle away..lol

Seriously though, thanks for the explanation LB. It WAS due to the PDF settings, it wasn't press friendly at all. Usually my transparency is always at high res. And I did have the background in the PS file set at a lower opacity, but I had flattened the file to a tiff, so thought this wouldn't be an issue.

Soon as I restored my settings to my regular prepress PDFX1a 2001 it eliminated the problem. So what you said totally makes sense to me now, especially since I figured out the solution and what caused it. But your explanation helped me understand it more. Thanks for that!