I'm amazed these formats aren't included in Illustrator, Indesign and Coreldraw as they are open formats. It is a shame designers in the UK aren't aware of how to create cutter guides separately from artwork and supply the diemaker with a file in the correct format that they can work with (Americans have DDES, we have CF2, most designers have never heard of these formats as they are only created by Packaging CAD software). The galling thing in all this is that people are creating cutter guides in Illustrator as PDF's which most of the time don't work and as they are PDF's as we all know this is supposed to be a final format and not one that is intended to be opened up and altered. It is just unfortunate that there are only facilities within high value specialised software that picks this scaling up. Has this happened to anyone the file is only 700mm x 500mm, I wouldn't be surprised that the front, back & cutter guide were all produced originally on one large artboard and then saved into a 3 page PDF, so Illustrator probably thought it was still one big file, I'm just guessing as I don't use Illustrator. So if Adobe are scaling the PDF to suit the limitations in their own products it is going outside of the specification and without anything in the PDF saying it has been scaled there are going to be a lot of people caught out by this. I don't know all the ins and outs of PDF's but I thought they were now an ISO standard and the specification was agreed by an independent group. Now, this is fine if you are using an Adobe product but if you aren't you have no idea the artwork has been scaled. It turns out that the PDF is scaled to 1/10th of its original size and this is deliberate by Adobe. To view the artwork in original dimensions, choose Preferences> General> Honor scale on importÄo you want to enable this preference now?" "A scaled artwork will be shown after importing as it is created on a large-sized canvas. The reply was on opening the PDF a message box opened with the following: I was cutting these proofs out on a CAD table, so I contacted the Printer and asked them to open the PDF in Illustrator I had been sent to check if the size was correct. I knew there was something strange going on as I already had wet proofs of the job and it measured correctly. I tried to open a PDF (in Acrobat Reader) of some artwork yesterday and even though the measurements were correct, when I actually opened the PDF in CorelDraw, Affinity Designer and Autocad it was much smaller than it measured in Adobe Reader. I don't know if this is the correct forum for this, so apologies in advance and also if it has been discussed already.
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