Problems Printing Vector Photoshop PDFs

[Brian]

[posted in both the Photoshop and InDesign forums, as I'm not sure where
the problem originates]

I've been experiencing some significant spooling issues printing
Photoshop PDFs with vector data, and I was hoping someone might have
some insight into this (and perhaps a solution).

Let's say I'm starting out with Photoshop files with live text layers. I
save them as Photoshop PDFs (preserving vector data; retaining layers or
not makes no difference to what's going on) and place into InDesign for
output. Here's where the problem ocurrs: some files seems to take
forever to spool, sometimes as much as 5-10 minutes, even though the
files themselves are not that large (perhaps 5-8 MB per PDF, four placed
into a layout for a total of 24MB of data) - a similar sized PSD or TIFF
placed into InDesign spools as expected, no more than ten seconds or so.

Any idea why this is happening? Or if there is another route to take to
preserve the vector data in these Photoshop files? (Saving as PSD or EPS
with vector data doesn't work; I'm not sure if it's Photoshop, InDesign
or the RIP that is at fault but the vector data is treated as raster
when saving in these formats, unlike saving as a PDF from Photoshop
whereby the vector data is recognized as such by the RIP and rasterized
at 2400dpi accordingly.)

Thanks!
Brian

[Bob_Levine]

Sounds like it could be font issue. First thing I would do is try just
printing them from Acrobat and seeing if that works. Then place them in
ID one at a time and see what happens there.

It might be just something funky about one of them.

BTW, your observation is correct. Only PDF from Photoshop will give you
what you're looking for. PSD files get rasterized.

Bob