Attached are screen shots of the same PDF file. When opened on one iMac the white and black text at the bottom is missing. When opened on the other it is there. When opened on Windows it's there. When dropped into the Fiery as a PDF the text prints squished together and in courier. When printed direct it does not print. We cannot select it with any tool. When opened in Illustrator there is an error about a font missing, but then the text is not there at all, not even displayed in an incorrect font.

And just to add a fly to the ointment. We've been opening, viewing, printing the same file from different machines and now all of a sudden the text IS there on the iMac it was originally not a half hour ago.

I've seen this happen where it displays differently on an older version of Acrobat, especially version 8. Is there transparency in the file?

Also when the white text was set as black, then changed to white and it retains the overprint settings.

OK, after a bit more digging, it turns out that they are comments. So why then did they not show up on one iMac, and then later did? I didn't change any setting purposely. I can't even find in Acrobat X where to turn on and off viewing comments.

Also, when the PDF is placed in Indesign the comments don't show. Is there way to get around that?

comments won't show when you have separation preview on, gets me all the time.

Ad text added as comments? Those damn wacky designers never stop coming up with new shit do they?

Quote from: t-pat on October 16, 2012, 11:37:12 AMcomments won't show when you have separation preview on, gets me all the time.

Holy Carp that is EXACTLY what it was. I have that pallet open constantly. I guess I'll have to get in the habit of closing it unless I'm using it.

Quote from: Joe on October 16, 2012, 11:41:04 AMAd text added as comments? Those damn wacky designers never stop coming up with new shit do they?

Some designer or so-called designer trying to take the easy way out. That has happen to me once before, had to go in and reset the type.

Quote from: MCpwr on October 16, 2012, 12:01:11 PM

Quote from: Joe on October 16, 2012, 11:41:04 AMAd text added as comments? Those damn wacky designers never stop coming up with new shit do they?

Some designer or so-called designer trying to take the easy way out. That has happen to me once before, had to go in and reset the type.

As any sane person would. :laugh:

Quote from: Joe on October 16, 2012, 12:19:49 PM

Quote from: MCpwr on October 16, 2012, 12:01:11 PM

Quote from: Joe on October 16, 2012, 11:41:04 AMAd text added as comments? Those damn wacky designers never stop coming up with new shit do they?

Some designer or so-called designer trying to take the easy way out. That has happen to me once before, had to go in and reset the type.

As any sane person would. :laugh:

Yes indeed. :smiley:

Quote from: Joe on October 16, 2012, 11:41:04 AMAd text added as comments? Those damn wacky designers never stop coming up with new shit do they?

That was my first thought. The radiating brilliance of graphic desighners continues to amaze me.