Re: indesign CS3 PDF export on 10.5
Re: indesign CS3 PDF export on 10.5
- Subject: Re: indesign CS3 PDF export on 10.5
- From: Wayne Melrose <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:49:24 +0200
On 9. april. 2008, at 10.50, Håvard Graudo wrote:
I am updating and correcting my own posting here:
The errors on output are *not* only on 10.5.
I got missing images in PDFs from a 10.4 Mac Pro yesterday. Prime
suspect is currently InDesign 5.02 update.
Statistics:
Yesterdays job was 12 pages, One layer with 309 pictures. + 10
layers with only text.
Output was 10 similar 12 page PDFs, with only text different. 6
random pictures was missing on random PDFs
This is very, very bad. Is anyone reliably exporting PDFs from
InDesign 5.02?
Håvard
Den 4. apr. 2008 kl. 16.43 skrev Håvard Graudo:
I have a couple of similar scripts that have been running on
InDesign CS3 on OS 10.4.
They have exported thousands of pages for print and are considered
tried and tested.
When moving users to OS 10.5 I sometimes get horrible errors. Most
of the time it works, but I can get any of these:
A random picture missing in the PDF
Clipping paths ignored on some pictures
Pictures are upside down (!)
I am in the early stages of investigation, but I have found this:
* It only happens when I script the PDF export.
* It seems to happen at random
* error rate is low with <1% of the pictures effected
* errors are not consistent.
* Pictures are EPS with JPEG encoded data and clipping paths
* I have only run into this on Intel-boxes
Has anyone else seen this?
Håvard
Here is a boiled down script that will export every open InDesign
document. Saved as an app and run from Script panel.
I removed all the errorchecking so I may have screwed up something
as well. This approach has worked flawlessly on OS 10.4.
---
property convertSpotToProcess : true
my main()
on main()
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
set alleExportFormater to name of every PDF export preset
set alleDok to name of every document
tell document 1
set valgtExportFormat to (choose from list alleExportFormater
with prompt "Hvilken utskriftsMal skal brukes?")
if valgtExportFormat = false then error number -128
set targetmappe to my velgmappe()
end tell -- doknavn
set valgtExportFormat to PDF export preset (valgtExportFormat as
text)
repeat with ggg in alleDok
set doknavn to ggg as text
tell PDF export preferences
set page range to all pages
end tell
set filnavn to doknavn
if filnavn ends with ".indd" then set filnavn to text 1 thru -6
of filnavn
set filnavn to filnavn & ".pdf"
tell document doknavn
if convertSpotToProcess then set convert to process of (every
ink whose is process ink is false) to true
set targetfil to (targetmappe & filnavn) as string
with timeout of 40 * 60 seconds
export format PDF type to targetfil using valgtExportFormat
without showing options
end timeout
delay 1
end tell
end repeat
say "Your PDFs are ready"
end tell
end main
on velgmappe()
try
tell me to activate
end try
return (choose folder with prompt "Hvor skal PDFene legges?")
end velgmappe
---
Hey Håvard,
We're using indesign 5.02 / 10.5 and intel boxes all day to export
pdfs.. Have not seen anything of the sort. Considering that you're
office is less than 5km from where I work, I guess it's not a problem
with Oslo ;)
Mind, we do not really use eps files with clipping paths, THIS would
be my place for starting.. I'd be checking those images, checking
those images exported normally (not using applescript) then trying to
re-create those errors with applescript, Would also suggest resaving
your images in photoshop, see if that helps at all?
If you want to, you can send me a copy of a problem file/links, and
i'll try and re-create the error here too.
Lykke til!
Wayne _______________________________________________
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