Troubles with printing text document exported to pdf (edited)

Hello, I've exported a text document from pages to pdf. When I open it with adobe reader everything it's ok.
But when then I try to print the pdf file a small dots grid on the background appears on the paper sheets. Can someone tell me what can I do to make the grid disappear?

Try Print as Image (Advanced button on Print panel).

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For a little over a week I have been unable to print text documents from either of my printers (Lexmark Z-23 and HP PSC 1410). I had noticed that the sharpness of text had been declining-but I was in denial, sort of. Now, when printing text documents from the computer, the printout is garbled, streaked, and unreadable. Sometimes the first half of printed document will be okay but the second half will be all garbled and streaked.
I have tried to print from Pages, Appleworks, and TextEdit. No success in any of them. I have converted a page of my word processing document to pdf format, but it does not print out properly in pdf, either.
Here's the weird part: the HP will produce good copies (copy function) I am able to print out beautiful iCal (calendar) pages; some web-based information (like maps with directions) comes out great; and even "screen-shots" (or pictures) of text documents are fine; I just can't print text-based documents.
So far, I have cleaned and calibrated the printers; they have enough ink. I have uninstalled then reinstalled the software and drivers.
Help?
~~PM
iMac G5 2GHz PPC Mac OS X (10.4.8) still miss my Indigo G3

my guess is, it's not your printers that are the
problem but maybe a font problem.
Have you done anything with fonts lately?
Why, yes.
Just today, in FontBook I validated fonts and
resolved duplicates, whatever that means. I also
"turned off" a bunch of fonts that I never use. Then
I restarted, reset PRAM, and repaired permissions in
Disk Utility.
I still have the problem.
What other kinds of things can you do with fonts?
~PM, wife of GM
Glenn-- Here is a great article written by a fellow apple forum frequenter:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
Maybe you can read it or weed thru it and make sure you haven't turned off any necessary fonts that you don't use but the system finds necessary. Especially "TextEdit" uses I think exclusively system fonts and if you've turned them off... It's just good to know which fonts are for what before you disable certain ones.
I believe fonts can definitely cause these sorts of problems, especially if you've disabled system fonts.

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On Startup: Open Document, Export as PDF (Print), Close

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My application generates a customizable 8"x5" label which is attached to large tanks. Sometimes users want smaller versions of the label, 8-up on 8.5"x11" stock. Our graphics department has an InDesign document that works perfectly. The document uses the Place command to place my label PDFs eight times in exact locations. InDesign automatically crops to the visible boundary, so all I have to do is replace my PDF with a new one.
I saved the graphic department's document as .idml which I edited to make the PDF paths relative rather than absolute. InDesign automatically regenerates the page when it opens the document.
Now I want to use InDesign to automate this task. The server version would be serious overkill; all I need is a script that will run when the document opens on startup. The script has to export the document as PDF (for print) to a fixed filename, then close InDesign.
An alternative would be to leave InDesign open, but I'd have to figure out how to send it an instruction to open the document, export it as PDF, then close the document.
I think the first technique can be done with just a couple of lines of JS. Any sample code showing how to do it would be greatly appreciated.
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Here's a list of the actions the simplest script would have to implement:
Run script on document open. Wait for PDF import to complete.
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Click "Save"
Exit InDesign without saving document.
The more complicated version would leave InDesign running between documents, using these actions:
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Thanks again for any guidance,
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Our in-house creative department produces a lot of materials that are no longer going to our commercial printer.
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If you are printing to laser printers by people that are not knowledgeable about color settings and device capabilities. I would not use Color Management. I would stick to something simple like Press Quality so that all the fonts used in your document will be embedded into the pdf so that you do not have to worry if the person printing the file has the fonts used in creating the documents.

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Don't want to come across as ungrateful, but I'm NOT impressed with how these postings are being handled. Guess I should expect that with HP -- ever since their calculators came out with RPN, the culture of HP has been different from most others.
To repeat myself, my printer is HP B8550 Photosmart, capable of wide format printing -- the reason I purchased this one after reading reviews by others of all its features. My OS is Windows XP Home Edition. My problem is with trying to print out a spreadsheet format of a large genealogical database that I have created, using Windows Works. When I open the file, create the desired printer settings, and perform the page set-up tasks, all I get when I hit "print preview" is an error message that says "out of memory", which prevents any further action. When I clear that from the screen & try to see a print preview, I get a truncated image of the spreadsheet in PORTRAIT orientation & not the LANDSCAPE orientation that I have set the document printing for.
While awaiting a useful response from yesterday's forum (& not getting one), I tried a different Word document while using the same 11 x 17 sheet size setting for the printer, & that document was processed without a hiccup. I'm now more inclined to believe that there is something wrong with my Window Works software & NOT the printer software that just doesn't want to deal with 11 x 17 spreadsheets in queue or out on the stack (or heap -- wherever the machine stages such data for processing), but I just don't know. Made a separate file using just one page of the database, thinking that maybe the 4.5 MB file size was the problem, but that had absolutely no effect on the situation -- it won't print even that small file as structured. To display all the data, I need to use landscape orientation. Puzzled why it won't show in that orientation even within print preview.
ANY advice on how to get this project to work properly is appreciated -- it represents about 8 years' worth of work in creating it & I'm ready to make a hard copy to use while doing on-site work at various archives holding such records.

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I are working on a catalogue that was previously made with Quark Express. I used q2id to convert over to InDesign CS3. I had some minor issues setting up the new fonts, but that was no big deal. Now that the catalogue is close to finished, I want to do some test print, however, on several of the files it start processing the printing, finish the processing of all the pages, then kills the print job and comes with the following error:
Print Error: The Adobe Print Engine has failed to output your data due to an unknown problem.
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Thanks Ken,
Not sure how to check if we do have OPI comments on some of the images, but looks like I have found a solution to the printing problem at least.
Thanks to a respons by Peter Spier to another topic with similar problems:
Peter Spier - 4:00am Mar 11, 08 PST (#5 of 6)
The symptoms could describe document corruption rather than network issues which might fall into the category of things that can be cleared up through export to .inx.
Try exporting one or two of the problem files to interchange format, open those and save as new .indd and make a new book file. See if that behaves differently across the network.
I also found another article about INX files, that confirms this technique:
http://avondale.typepad.com/indesignupdate/2005/08/what_the_heck_i.html
"...INX can also help “clean up” problem files in InDesign CS2—if you’re running into problems, especially with files that started their lives as QuarkXPress or PageMaker files, try exporting the document as INX and then opening that file."
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2. Then reopened those files, saved back as regular .indd files
3. Reopend the new file (hoping for a refreshed file and test to see if it would open without problems.)
4. Then packed the files indevidually and reopend the new packed files when done.
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