This video from Quark has a lot of good info on Quark 8.1 and setting up a live transparency workflow. I've found that Adobe's flattening is MUCH better than Quarks. If your workflow handles live transparency then you should be good, if it doesn't, then you can always flatten the transparency in Acrobat Professional using the High resolution settings. That will make the problem go away in the PDF since the flattening never happens. The other method, since you mentioned Quark 8.1, is to change your export settings in 8.1 to export the PDF with transparency intact. That way the whole element would at least be consistent. The reason for this is the amount of space the font designers put in for the distance. That amount of transparency is so slight that it's invisible to the eye, but it causes the transparency flattener to flatten the entire picture, not just the portion with the text box and drop shadow. Youll note that MS font Gabriola doesnt suffer the display issue. If you did contact Quark tech support, they probably would suggest that you draw a box over the entire picture and put a <1 % transparent fill in it. When Quark breaks the image up into atomic regions for flattening it's either applying a different color profile to part of the image, or the resolution of the flattener is just different enough that it makes the flattened areas stand out from the rest of the image. Rant over, suffice it to say that even in this WYSIWYG world we live in there are is still a lot of good old ASCII code hiden somewhere that the program is using for a mark-up language, and if you can get to it then you can manipulate it to do what you want.It sounds like you're having some issues with transparency flattening and/or Quark color management. So I bought my first Applescript book, opened a few of the PS files in a text editor and created a script that read through the file, identified which plate it was by the PS code and renamed the file accordingly. The problem was that Quark was saving 4 files, one for each plate, but not idenifying which plate was which, this created a bit a an orginization nightmare. We had shifts going 24 hours a day for about a week. We had a job that we couldn’t handle in house, and to meet the deadline we needed to send seperated post script files out to 3 other seperators while continuing to feed our image setter. Opened a few PDF’s in BB Edit and a short while later I had a few versions of the ascii page break command that the PDF format accepts, about an hour of playing and testing later I had a script that worked for the PDF’s I was creating in the Adobe applications on my computer, though it usually didn’t work if I had made those by saving a PDF from the system’s print window.Īnd the first script that I wrote, back 10 years ago, was to solve a sticky problem at work. I couldn’t find a way to do it, and my script doesnt work in all cases. Then there is the script for counting pages in a PDF (reposted in the code exchange by one of the moderators). If you can figure out how and where do apply that code you might be able to do a lot do the document and it’s formatting. With the newer versions of Quark you might be able to do even more with the “code”, though I have no proof of this I don’t do much scripting for Quark anymore, becouse of their increasing implamentation of XML in their document format. I was never able to do much with those, but they are there for some reason that has to do with that inline box. If you look at the text returned for a selection when you have an inline graphic selected there is actually a string of numbers. I remember a few years ago I was working on some scripts for placing inline graphics, and manipulating them. When in doubt look to the code, if you can get to it.
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