from indesign to pdf...strange thing...

Please! i hope someone can resolve this strange phenomenon.

I am placing hi res flattened tiffs into square frames (.25) in a grid I created in Indesign CS3. On the screen the Indesign file is fine. The art work stays within the frame/inside the box! When I create a hi res pdf (PDF X 1a:2001) the tiffs stay inside the box i created except for?1, 2 or sometimes 3 of them. The problem here is that a portion of the tiff is visually showing behind the box! The art work is as close to the size of the box as possible. Why is this happenning to a select few imported art files and not to all of them? They are all the same size? 48.5%. They are all being placed in the graphic boxes the same way

This is a 450 page book. I am remedying the problem by selecting a ''good'' box, replacing the problematic one, then re-importing the tiff. This is ridiculously time consuming!

i have attached a snapshhot of what I am talking about. It is of the PDF. The indesign file shows no problems.

Notice the left blocks are overlapped but the right boxes are fine. Out of the 12 boxes it's usually always the 2nd, 5th, 8th or 11th box that has a problem. Sometimes only one box on?a page has the art peaking out behind it.

Any idea why this is happening and how i can avoid this in the future

thanks

Jibb2008

from indesign to pdf...strange thing...

Are you viewing this in Acrobat or Reader? I've seen the same phenomenon in Reader 9 with PDF/X-1A, but only at 'normal' zoom. If I

zoom in really close, it goes away, and it doesn't appear in print.

Noel

from indesign to pdf...strange thing...

I've never noticed this, but haven't been looking, either. Acrobat can be strange in how it does screen display at odd magnifications, depending on how your preferences are set. It should already be checked in the PDF/X-1a settings, but verify that ''Crop image data to frames'' is selected in your export settings.

You could also try reversing whatever is set for ''tagged PDF.'' For reasons nobody I know understands this can fix odd behavior sometimes.

Thank you very much for your reply. And yes it was very helpful however I tried to find the option to Crop image data to frames but could not find it in either the preferences of ID or Acrobat

Thanks to all who replied with advice.

Sincerely,

Jibb2008

It's a check box at the bottom of the PDF export dialog in the compression area

found it not too long ago! thanks!

seek and we shall find eventually!