Illustrator to PDF full view problem

[Susan_Carl@adobeforums.com]

I am not even quite sure how to explain this extremely irritating problem that I have been working on for hours, so here goes. I have created a document in Illustrator that had images that went outside of the artboard. I made the those parts of the images transparent by using a clipping mask. The document prints fine and all that, but when I save it as a PDF adn then open it in Acrobat, I have this massive boarder where the rest of the image was. It is not full frame. PLEASE HELP! I am using Illsutrator CS, Acrobat 6 on a windows XP format. Thanks

[Harron_K._Appleman@adobeforums.com]

Susan,

See if this discussion helps:

"Saving Illustrator CS files as PDFs -- can I crop the image?" 6/12/04 8:20am </cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bb48ff6/0>

Follow the links in John's post, too.

=-= Harron =-=

[Susan_Carl@adobeforums.com]

Harron,

For some reason it didn't work for me - now I have crop marks around the big wonking border. I can pull the image into 10 adn make a pdf and that works - but I loose image quality. Any other ideas? Thanks

[Harron_K._Appleman@adobeforums.com]

Are you sure you used crop marks rather than trim marks?

[Susan_Carl@adobeforums.com]

Yeah - I went to filter>create>crop marks. I even went back and brought the crop marks in on the actual document - but that didn't work either. I got it to work cropping it in Acrobat - but that is really irritating too.

[Harron_K._Appleman@adobeforums.com]

OK. I'm flying blind here 'cause I'm still at IL 10, but what you've described is the method for making trim -- not crop -- marks.

In IL 10, crop marks are made via Object | Crop Marks.

Consult manual or help for the differences between the two.

=-= Harron =-=

[Susan_Carl@adobeforums.com]

You are right - thanks. I am not sure why they call the other option crop marks instead of trim marks, because that is confusing. I see in version 10 when you do filter>create it is trim marks, but in CS it says crop marks. Interesting.............. I REALLY appreciate it - thanks a bunch!

[Harron_K._Appleman@adobeforums.com]

Susan,

I see in version 10 when you do filter>create it is trim marks, but in
CS it says crop marks. Interesting...




Wow. Very interesting, indeed. I wonder why...

Glad we got it sorted out.

=-= Harron =-=