distiller missing text and image links when saving to pdf

[Jon Bessant]

Your workflow is similar to bringing home a chinese takeaway, placing in
a blender, then into the freezer, de-frosting and complaining it doesn't
taste the same?

You need to keep refrying the content since PDF to postscript and back
again does cause issues - some which become virtually impossible to
troubleshoot.

Why not impose to PDF directly from InDesign?

Jon

[graffiti]

After this I then imposition the 1up PDF back into indesign (using the
pdf as a link and then step and repeat it) then I print the new imposed
artwork as postscript file again and distill it as a PDF ready for offset
printing.




Not sure why you are going through all that trouble. In CS3, you can simply "place" the InDesign file (the same way as you do a PDF)or simply create a new file then copy paste using step and repeat as much as you want.

Then again, I may be completely misunderstanding what you are doing...

[ash_ol@adobeforums.com]

thanks for the replies,

Working in a pre-press environment we obviously prefer to print from pdf files (as opposed to using supplied native art). As a result I am always receiving pdf files from external clients who have saved their artwork from indesign to pdf format, so Im not sure what the real difference is between me imposing a supplied indesign/pdf files in indesign vs me imposing my own indesign/pdf files in indesign. (aprt from perhaps going through distiller twice)

can see what your saying though and for years i have been using the cut and paste and step and repeat method but recently changed my workflow for a few reasons

- I noticed that by printing a 1up pdf and relinking the file back into my indesign imposition the final imposed pdf was lower in size

- if a client made a change to the artwork after imposing (which always happens) all i had to do was make the change, resave the pdf 1up link again and update the link and it did it for me and saved me from step and repeating all over again,

- whenever the job was printed again in the future i could use the same procedure, resave as 1up pdf again and update the link.

- plus i knew that if i was using the one link all my step and repeats would be exactly the same each time (and i didn't have to worry that a graphic that hadn't been selected/grouped correctly and would drop off when step and repeating)

......and for sure it probably is a slightly longer way to impose a job for print but it saves me half the time on the next print run, and i can use my imposition file as a template for similar jobs also.

I have found the workflow i use works fine, apart from these rare hiccups which i can get around by resaving the pdf again anyway, but what Im really worried about is the times this error presents itself and doesn't notify me that a problem has occurred.

[Russell_Goodman@adobeforums.com]

How big is the printing company you work for? Maybe it's time to invest in some imposition software such as Preps, which takes care of putting files so many up and laid out as you wish, and it leaves the original PDF you receive in it's original state instead of all this back and forth business.

[ash_ol@adobeforums.com]

yeah your probably right... i will definately look into it anyway.