problems printing PDF

[Faisca]

Hi,

I have created a document in InDesign, and exported smallest size for the web.
My file had some transparencies, but I set it to flatten the pages so that it wouldn't have problems loading on the browser.
I originally made my backgrounds with Illustrator, saved them as AI and placed them in a master page in InDesign, but when I exported this as PDF, it took too long to load because of the background AI. I thought that was odd? I tried playing with it and making it work, but it didn't load 'til I had removed the AI files and placed the objects individually in the master canvas.
These had transparencies, and so had the foreground shape, where the text was.
When the PDF was finally good on the web, when printing it, it was too slow.
I had problems printing it. The printer said that it could be related to the layers, so I removed all the layers and put them in one, and flattened my pages to avoid delay.
Now, my settings when exporting were as follows:
General: Smallest file size, Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4), Optimize for fast web view, visible layers.
Compression: color images: bicubic downsampling to 100 ppi for 150 ppi, automatic JPEG and low quality; grayscale images: bicubic downsampling to 150 ppi for 225 ppi, automatic JPEG and low quality; monochrome, none.
Compress text and line art; crop image data to frames.
Output: color conversion: convert to destination; destination: sRGB IEC61966-2.1; include destination profile.
That worked great for the web once I removed the AI.

Does anyone know what the problem could be when printing? What am I missing? I would appreciate any help.

Thanks so much,

Natalia

[eugenetyson]

What you could do is this

In InDesign

Edit > Transparency Flattner Presets

Make a duplicate of the Low (simply select it and say edit, this dupes it with the low settings)

Move the slider all to the left until the value is 1.

This raterises everything except for they type.

Make the pdf using this transparency flattner.

Now it should load and print quite quickly on the web and from the web, respectively.

[Lukas Engqvist]

don't know how to link/merge forum threads.

Can a thread be posted in multiple forums? There is overlap and not allways clear where to start.

[kialua]

For the rest of this thread explored in further depth please see the InDesign forum. Could be useful to leave post here also as PDF printing is start but ID is the fix.