Outsourcing Publishing problems

[Anonymous]

I am using AC 12/Mac and publishing drawings as PDF's, black and white, 300 dpi compression. I then publish these on my public site, and the printing company downloads them. They then use a program to convert them to TIF's.
Problems occur:
1. White streaks about 1 inch wide appear randomly on drawings, wiping out all images.
2. Line values are not the same as when I print the same PDF to HP Inkjet.
Some of the lighter lines (such as .10mm) disappear entirely.

I have tried saving as TIFF to begin with, but it is terrible line quality.
I tried a number of other options, etc. offered under the Publisher, to no avail.

It seems like there would be a clear and concise way of simply sending drawings to a local printing company to get good results.

I would pay money for an answer to this.....maybe!

Jay

[Erika Epstein]

Why aren't they printing directly from the pdf?
If they can't or won't, find another printer.

[Thomas Holm]

JDC001 wrote:
I am using AC 12/Mac and publishing drawings as PDF's, black and white, 300 dpi compression.

I'm not sure I follow you here. If your drawings are vector graphics like most are, the resolution doesn't matter. PDFs save vector info. As such, no print shop should have any problem printing them.

If you make bitmapped PDFs in the process, this could be your issue. Don't!

Try publishing to color, only using greyscale (or black) pens instead. For some reason this gives smaller PDFs than reducing color space at publishing time.

If they still can't manage your files, I agree with Erika.