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I have some old Corel documents I need to have printed at a local printer. They told me they would like to have PDF documents. I opened each file in Corel and saved them as Illustrator 7. I opened the documents in Illustrator 10 and tried printing them, but noticed it chopped off part of the test documents when being printed. At that point, I noticed the page orientation and print boundaries were causing problems. I changed the page orientation to landscape in the document set up and also in the printer, but still had the problem. So, I selected all, copied to the clipboard, and opened a new document in the landscape mode and pasted everything back and saved that file as an Illustrator 10 native document (.AI). I then saved that page as PDF and printed the page. It worked fine.
When I reopen the PDF document, saved only a few minutes earlier, I get some of the same page/printer orientation problems with parts of the image getting chopped off when I print. The page set up in the Illustrator PDF seems to be set to portrait orientation. I went back to the printer set up in Windows and set it to default to landscape and tried opening and saving files again, but I'm still having problems.
I need help! I am sure it is a simple issue, but I just don't see it. All I really want to do is make sure the PDF document opens correctly for the printer.
Thanks in advance, Mike Jackson
-------------------- Mike Jackson Golden Era Studios Jackson Hole, Wy www.goldenstudios.com/ Posts: 390 | From: PO Box 7850 | Registered: Nov 1998
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I get things to print on paper better (perfectly) when designed in Omega's Composer.
Corel & Adobe always give me fits when trying to print a brochure or a flyer. Why is that? I think advertising designers are using Quark to generate perfect work.
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Corel will make some decent PDF files just hit the publish to PDF on your file drop down menu.
you can play with settings in there ... and have the fonts converted to curve ..images compressed and alot more. I think these features came with corel 8 and above.
have some good prints!
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-------------------- Élaine Beauchemin scrip Lettrage Scripsit inc. St-Hubert, Quebec, Canada www.scripsit.net Posts: 1096 | From: Saint-Hubert, Québec, Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Looks like I was doing everything right and Illustrator 10.0 has a bug. PDF documents created in both Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw both had the printing issues when opened in Illustrator, but worked flawlessly when opend in Adobe's stand alone Acrobat Reader. I am trying to download the 10.03 update (28 megs) and hopefully it will fix the bug. It is frustrating when you don't know if you are causing the problem because of lack of knowledge or training, or whether the problem is caused by something else you have no control over.
Mike
-------------------- Mike Jackson Golden Era Studios Jackson Hole, Wy www.goldenstudios.com/ Posts: 390 | From: PO Box 7850 | Registered: Nov 1998
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Update: I downloaded the 28 meg Illustrator 10.03 update last night and installed it. Adobe apparently did not fix this issue in the update.
Mike Jackson
-------------------- Mike Jackson Golden Era Studios Jackson Hole, Wy www.goldenstudios.com/ Posts: 390 | From: PO Box 7850 | Registered: Nov 1998
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I've had problems before with pdf's created in Corel and then opened in Acrobat Reader. The problem was that the original file had elements which extended beyond the page settings boundries. As I don't have the page outline visible as default, I have to show it anytime a pdf is created. As long as the copy falls within the page printing parameters, all seems fine.
You might want to check and see what the original page size was. Might have to experiment and see if setting a larger page size allows overage to show. That may be helpful for a pdf I must create and send for a file which is also over the limit of an letter-size page. At least, gotta try it, I guess.
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send me your .pdf made it in both corel and illustrator or .ai file. I will doing it for you. I will say you what the problems are. My e-mail: catad@yahoo.com
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These were set up as 8.5" x 11" documents in landscape mode. Illustrator made good PDF documents. It just can't re-read the file correctly. The same files open in Acrobat Reader fine and that is how I have them saved on CD for the printer tomorrow. As long as they open them in Acrobat, I will be fine.
Mike
-------------------- Mike Jackson Golden Era Studios Jackson Hole, Wy www.goldenstudios.com/ Posts: 390 | From: PO Box 7850 | Registered: Nov 1998
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