Lines in Placed Files in Illustrator CS2

[C***@adobeforums.com]

Everytime I place a File in Illustrator CS2 i get fine black lines going horizontally through it and have to embed it to make them go away. What am I doing wrong?

[H***@adobeforums.com]

Everytime I place a File in Illustrator CS2 i get fine black lines going
horizontally...




This happens with every file you place? What kind of file are you placing?

If this happens only with one or a few files, can you post an example to a server and give us the link so that we can test it?

[C***@adobeforums.com]

Every PSD CS2 file i place comes up with lines.

[C***@adobeforums.com]

Where would be a good place to post to a server? I haven't done that before.

[H***@adobeforums.com]

Where would be a good place to post to a server?




Try a Google search with keyphrase 'free file hosting.' You should be presented with a bunch of options.

[C***@adobeforums.com]

Test File.ai
<http://www.filefactory.com/file/af8f99e/n/Test_File_ai>
24 logo flat.psd
<http://www.filefactory.com/file/af8gaea/n/24_logo_flat_psd>

Here is the ai file and the corresponding psd.

I found that the lines are more apparent the larger the file and that when I put it over the top of the black background they come through stronger as well

[C***@adobeforums.com]

Thank you for being so helpful

[H***@adobeforums.com]

Wow. I see it.

I have no idea what is causing it, but, other than embedding, I was able to get rid of the lines by downsampling your Photoshop image file to 300ppi.

I tried 450ppi just for laughs, and the lines were still there. I don't know at what ppi setting the lines disappear.

I would venture a guess that, because the problem goes away when you embed, there will be no lines in any final output. But there is no definitive test I can do here to confirm that.

Is there any particular reason you need the image to be at 500ppi? If not, I'd say drop it down to 300ppi and fuggedaboudit.

[C***@adobeforums.com]

acutally the lines do show up when I print. it's really frustrating thanks for your help :)

[H***@adobeforums.com]

I retested from scratch.

I took the Palm Tree(CMYK).psd file in the Photoshop Samples folder and upsampled it to about 8 x 12 in. at 500ppi. I placed it an AI document. Sure enough, we get lines.

If I resave the file as a .tif and place that instead, lo and behold, no lines!

That doesn't help you, of course, because Illustrator doesn't recognize TIFFs with transparency.

Very strange stuff.

acutally the lines do show up when I print.




Are you printing to a PostScript printer? Try printing to Acrobat using a Press preset. (I'll try it, too.)

[H***@adobeforums.com]

OK. Using your files, I'm getting a clean print (no lines) to Adobe PDF (which behaves as a virtual PostScript printer).

I'll do a quick test print to my PostScript proofer and report back again.

[H***@adobeforums.com]

Using your files, again, unmodified, I get no lines on printed output from my PostScript proofer. I used 720 dpi because I didn't want to use a lot of ink (which is expensive on this sucker), but I'm quite confident lines would have shown up if they were actually in the output data.