Nelly

Thank you very much Walt, worked a treat! My daughter is very happy as we are designing a new breakfast cereal for her school project. Stay well, regards Neil

Hello When creating a text on path, the area underneath (in this case creating a half crescent shape) is filled with a solid white. Why is this, why not transparent like around the text and above? Have attached screenshot for reference, any help to make this area transparent much appreciated... Have added a 2nd photo with just a solid blue shape behind to show more clearly. Regards Neil

Hi all Going to try answer these questions best I can...

Just downloaded acrobat, banding just as bad...

In fact, if I don't rasterise the gradient doesn't show at all...

Ok so: When you view the gradient.pdf that I had produced, did you see banding there, as well? No, it was smooth (For what its worth I have a 2018 iMac with a 5k screen) For PDFs I just use Apple's standard preview program Will try the non-rasterisation idea, but I believe I started with that and was corned that then my gradient would not be in CMYK, which it needs to be, as it is to be printed...

Hi Lagarto Ok, so I exported your gradients.afpub as a PDF with the settings as attached and here is the result, still get a 'banding' effect. Appreciate your help on this... gradients - user nelly.pdf

Just struggling to get a perfectly smooth gradient upon export as PDF. This is for a leaflet I am getting printed professionally. Smooth in edit and if saved as a JPEG. But causes 'lines' down the page as a PDF. Colour Format: CMYK/8 Colour Profile: Coated FOGRA39 (although Web Coated SWOP v2 and Generic give similar results) PDF settings attached along with samples of the issue. Urgent help much appreciated!