White Lines when importing PDFs to Photoshop

Please see this thread for further information:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop_cs6_pdf_import_adds_artifa cts_to_images
Photoshop-Team says its an error with Indesign, not an error with Photoshop.

@Dov – let us hope, that PDF/X-4 will be adopted soon; by every printing company.
Just an additional note:
some of the biggest European online printers demand PDF/X-3 with restrictions that in effect mean you have to deliver a PDF/X-1a with fonts converted to outline paths. This is really rediculous…
PDF/X-3 has it's own problems and I would never recommend using that standard as export format. Either the old PDF/X-1a or (much, much better) PDF/X-4. For the online printers mentioned above I use always PDF/X-1a disguised as PDF/X-3. No "technical" problem here. It's just a hack, because PDF/X-1a can be regarded as a subset of PDF/X-3.
But I made that point already on another thread a couple of months ago…
Regarding the thread, that the OP has linked to:
I cannot understand that a professional workflow is based on rendering PDFs in PhotoShop.
This might be good for illustration purposes, but as a direct output-to-device workflow? I don't know…
Uwe

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