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nourchannousa -  
Hello,
I’m working on an Illustrator file with several pages, everything seems normal until I generate a low-resolution PDF where white text placed on an orange rectangle disappears.

I clicked Display -> Overprint Preview and then the text disappeared.

Do you know how I could fix this issue?

Thanks in advance

2 answers

  1.  contrariness
    The overprint is a function necessary when working in color separation.

    During printing the colors are separated and this allows us to specify the order in which the colors will be printed.

    Thus, if a white text is marked as overprintable on a color, that color will print completely on top of the white, making it opaque. The text disappears, whereas in composite printing it is still present.

    Check the function in "Window/Object options/overprint background" of the object you selected (text block, for example) in Illustrator
    1. nourchannousa Author
      I checked the "Window/object option/overlay background" function and here is the message that appears: "The selection includes four-color white objects. Overprinting such objects is only meaningful when combined with transparency effects." So apparently it still doesn't work; I clicked "continue" anyway and tried "display" "overprint preview" again, but the problem persists.
    2. contrariness
      If you have "the selection includes white objects" ... it means your selection has multiple objects.. decompose it.
    3. nourchannousa Author
      @contrarinessIn other words, after displaying the "Object Options" window, I select the text block by block and I deselect "background overprint"? (at first glance it seemed to work but I’m not sure that’s what you mean by decomposing the selection) I discovered that performing this manipulation, even when applied to a single text block, was enough to fix the problem in the generated PDF. Is that possible!? Thanks a lot.