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nourchannousa Posted messages 978 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
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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

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    contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
     
    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
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    1. nourchannousa Posted messages 978 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   151
       
      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.
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    2. contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
       
      If you have "the selection includes white objects" ... it means your selection has multiple objects.. decompose it.
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      1. nourchannousa Posted messages 978 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   151 > contrariness Posted messages 17903 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        In 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.
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