[PrintOwners] Indesign trapping help

[Robert Cashimere]

> Steve Blatman wrote:
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>>
>> I thought I'd specified a trap in a two-color logo in ID3, but it 
>> doesn't show on the printed separations. I exaggerated it (2pts of 
>> trap should be blazingly obvious on 18 pt type), and it still doesn't 
>> show. I'm sure I'm missing something really obvious. Any thoughts


Steve,

I believe if you read the fine print in InDesign's help, you'll find 
that it only
traps PDF files - not eps. This is in contrast to Adobe In-Rip trapping 
which
pretty much does just the opposite (at least in older versions).

So, if your logo is a placed eps file, open it in Acrobat and make a PDF 
out of it.
Then place it into InDesign (either embedded in another PDF or as part 
of an ID3
layout) and go from there.

We use ID3 as our trapping engine quite successfully.
Since we have a 100% PDF workflow, we simply (1) place the final composite
PDF into an ID template of the same size, (2) apply a trap preset (we've 
predefined  thin, default,
and thick trapping presets), and (3) print to a new PDF using the output 
"separations" and "Application
Built-In" trapping. The resulting PDF contains the plate seps, and we 
can easily see
the added traps using Pitstop's Wireframe mode.

Works like a charm for us.

Rob
Tradeprint
Rochester, NY