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zandar

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:44 am    Post subject: CS3 prints to pdf in black and white only- and badly Reply with quote
Good morning,

I have been merrily taking screen shots for a recent work project, pasting them into Photoshop, adding a touch of sharpening via Highpass filter, and printing them to PDF. suddenly, with the most recent print, I am greeted for the first time with the message "Some PostScript specific print settings (Interpolation, Calibration, Encoding) will be ignore since you are printing to a non-PostScript printer." I also noticed all of my other prints to pdf were 72 dpi, suddenly this one is 121 PPI. The PDF is black and white, although the original document is full color, and it has the moire pattern of a scan taken at the wrong resolution, a pattern of little squares all over.

Every PDF I save from Photoshop is like this now, filters or no.

What the heck happened? How can I get my pdfs back?

Thanks.
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zandar

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:43 am    Post subject: Re: CS3 prints to pdf in black and white only- and badly Reply with quote
bump.

No one has encountered this? Is it a bug?
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zandar

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:36 am    Post subject: Re: CS3 prints to pdf in black and white only- and badly Reply with quote
OK, it's working again- I have no idea if what I did fixed or it's just a coincidence. Or which of the following fixed it.

I realized I had a huge number of documents in the Adobe PDF printer's queue, so I cleared those first.

I took the Adobe PDF printer offline, bumped up the available memory for postscript to 6000 in its properties, then brought it back online.

Voila, it's making color PDFs again.
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Matt
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hey zandar,
Thanks for sharing the solution, I'm sure other people will encounter the same problem in the future!
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