"I have an issue with drop shadows and spot colors in Adobe InDesign. When I use a drop shadow in front of a spot color background it looks fine in InDesign, and prints properly as spot color separations. But a white box shows up around the image in Acrobat when I make a PDF to show the client. Is there a way around this problem?"
An excellent question, and one that comes up a lot for designers working with spot color. There are several ways to make sure your spot color jobs preview properly in Adobe Acrobat.
My friends over at CreativeTechs have the scoop on avoiding the white box around shadows in Adobe InDesign.
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Sometimes the box appears slightly transparent (not 100% white.) To remedy both instances I make a white box (on a new layer if you want) and set the blending option to multiply (in the Effects palette.) This forces InDesign to render the whole page and not just the drop shadow part. Presto, no more white/translucent box in the resulting pdf! Prints good too.
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