Expert: Candice Anderson - 12/13/2006

Question
I am having an Indesign problem that I hope you can help with. Whenever I export (or print) a document from Indesign that has white text, I end up with the text in black when it turns to a PDF, Do you have any idea what to do about that?

Thanks in advance.


Answer
A couple of things to try:

1. do you have the latest version of the reader/professional acrobat and/or are you saving it to the right version when you export it (your not saving to a higher reader are you?)

2. Are there any drop shadows, feather, etc... effects to it? Indesign still has problems sometimes with these features.  If this is the case, you may need to print from the original file.

3. If no to both of these, turn your text into outlines.  (I think is apple/ctrl + shift + o, or go to object, create outlines.)

4. when in doubt, update Indesign.  That always seems to work.
:)