Indesign problem
formara (12 pencils) | Sat, 2010-11-13 12:52I have placed a psd file with a transparent backgrond into indesign and it appears with a white line around the outside. I have then saved it as a pdf and still the white line surround the outside. Can anyone help please.
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Does it print with the white outline? It may all be a display issue. Did you apply any special effects to the PSD file while in InDesign (like a drop shadow). I notice sometimes InDesign renders thin white lines around my PSD files if I add extra effects to them, like a drop shadow. And while it appears in my preview in InDesign and sometimes even carries through to a PDF, when I print it, it looks fine.
If you white lines around pictures in the pdf, probably the reason is a bug in Acrobat.
To fix that you go to the preferences in Acrobat and choose the section Page display.
At the right hand side you will see two options 'smooth line art' and 'smooth images'.
Probably these are checked, uncheck them and the white lines will disappear.
good luck
Thanks for that tip, Fidel, on the "Page Display" preference in Acrobat. I'll have to give that a try sometime if I have a client or ad rep worried about the lines that pop up occasionally. I learned a long time ago it's only a display problem that doesn't translate to print so I'd just explain that to them and that usually made them feel better (sometimes I'd provide a printout just to prove the point.)
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