Round corners missing

Question

I'm part way through a problem that may yet be resolved by re-RIPping a PDF. But I thought I'd raise it anyway in case
there's an explanation.
I have placed images behind round cornered text frames and applied the round corners to the images at the point where
they coincide with the corners of the frames (that is, two corners rounded, two corners square) by placing a round
cornered image in a frame and then cropping the frame on one side to cut the corners square.
That has worked without problems. But in one frame I only wanted one corner of each image to be rounded, and there
wasn't enough spare on each image to crop the frames. So, using the pen tool I added a node either side of each rounded
corner I wanted to square off, then dragged the nodes to coincide with the real corner node, and it squared the corners OK.
So I have images which have been set to have rounded corners, but three of the corners have been edited back to squared
off. The fourth, rounded, corner then coincides with the rounded corner of a text frame above.
This all looks fine on the PDF. But on the RIPped proof, the rounded corner has gone, and I'm seeing an "ear" of the
squared-off picture behind the rounded text frame. Both pictures appear like this.
I'm suspicious that it's only the images that I have doctored the corners on that do this. But the PDF looks OK.
I've re-made the PDF and I'm waiting for a new proof. But I wondered whether anyone can suggest an explanation - if
indeed it's anything more than a glitch on the RIP or at proofing.
It's gone through an Apogee workflow, by the way.
k

Answer 1

You could save yourself a whole lot of grief, I think, if you selectively rounded just the corners you choose using the corner effects sample script.
If you need different rounding on different corners (as I used to do for one client) you can select the frame path and add a node either side of the corner, then delete the corner node itself and drag the control handles of your new nodes along the vertical or horizontal axis to make pretty much any curve at all.
Peter