When you're ready to output, just convert all of your spot colors to cmyk, and voila!!! all problems solved. The solution was quite simple all of my colors had been selected as spot colors, being a quark user I never had to worry about converting to cmyk. I also noticed, with the help of others on this board, that it would only show up when a drop shadow was placed over a placed image (tif or psd) AND another color box. Also, outputting to 5, I wasn't able to apply a color to a grayscale image, because that would appear as a negative. It hasn't appeared when converting to 5, however, being that my film outputer needs version 4, this didn't help me much. This problem appears when exporting as a pdf to version 4.
I have the solution! I'm new to Indesign, converting from Quark, and after a few hours of fiddling, I've come to the solution. It's Saturday and I've been pulling my hair out with this very problem. I don't do e-book PDFs very often, so I didn't mentally file it as something important to remember.įor that particular job, I ended up just grouping the blended Photoshop files in ID and copying and pasting them into a new Photoshop file and saving them as a flattened tiff, which I then used to replace the group items in ID. There appears to be features in PDF that conflict with each other depending on the type of file you are trying to create. I did not have ID drop shadows in this document, but I'm wondering if this perhaps is your problem. I then noted that one of the little messages I got when I performed an export (which I rarely read because they usually tell me stuff I don't need to know) said that there was a conflict between some of the e-book PDF features and transparency. The Photoshop images had white backgrounds instead of being transparent. I noticed that a bunch of my transparent effects did not translate properly. I remember working on a book that I had to export to a tagged e-book PDF out of InDesign for web publishing.