Skewed graphic boxes
Mike Wickham
mewickham at compuserve.com
Fri Jun 1 11:35:09 PDT 2007
> I have a client who when she creates a ps file from Frmae 7.2 and
> distills her background boxes look skewed, ie the box narrows in some
> places and looks normal in others. From what I gathered from her is she
> creates a box, fills it with a solid color, lays a text box inside and
> types what ever words she wants or just types a text line inside the
> filled box. Either way the outside, or simulated shadow box, narrows in
> some places instead maintaining a constant size.
>
I seem to recall Shlomo Perets of microtype.com mentioning a bug distilling
boxes with rounded corners. The straight sides would come out wavy. This
sounds a little like your problem. I believe the fix was to uncheck the
"Convert smooth lines to curves" option in the Acrobat job options.
Mike Wickham
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