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Document created in CorelDraw with some Type 1 fonts and EPS art and printed to Adobe PDF (from Acrobat Pro 8.1.0) as Standard quality PDF.
When using Adobe Reader 8 to print the document to laser printer (several tried) the type and the EPS art is very poor quality--like a coarse screen. Same document printed to a postscript laser printer prints perfectly. In earlier versions of Acrobat Reader the difference between true PS and the rendered type was virtually indistinguishable on laserjets. I'm only an occasional user, but have been so over a decade or more and never encountered this. What happened? Is there some setting that I am overlooking?
My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1 / Windows
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We would need to see the actual PDF file created from CorelDRAW (and the original CorelDRAW documents) to definitively respond to your query. I assume that PDF files from other sources print from Reader without the same problem.
It sounds like you are getting "rasterized text" in the PDF file from CorelDRAW. That could be due to transparency used within CorelDRAW or if the text is in a placed EPS within CorelDRAW.
The fact that the printing "works" for printing to a PostScript printer would be indicative of use of what is called a PostScript XObject in the PDF file. This is something that CorelDRAW has been known to use when you export PDF directly from CorelDRAW and if that CorelDRAW document contains placed EPS. This is a practice that Adobe highly discourages but that Corel continues to use. But again, without the files, we really cannot definitively diagnose the problem.
- Dov
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Thanks, Dov. (I didn't realize my question finally got posted.)
I did manage to find what the problem was, but I don't fully understand it. It is on the Corel side, however, not Adobe, and has something to do with how CorelDraw defines "black". I had set the problematic fonts and the EPS to be basic Pantone Black, which seemed appropriate. It turned out that the coarse screen effect seemed to be Corel's way of interpreting that. I switched the fonts and the EPS art to the RGB pallete and set it to a Black made up of 100% and then they came out just fine. I don't understand why CorelDraw didn't think Pantone Black is Black, but I've got a work around, though I think my days with Corel are numbered.
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