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Overheard at a coworking space that made me check all my exports
Some guy was talking about how his team published a major update last month and the PDF exports all had invisible clipping masks eating the margins. Are we all just one bad plugin away from sending the wrong files to a printer?
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josephs2612d agoMost Upvoted
man I literally shipped a file last week where the left margin was missing on every page because of some hidden clipping mask I didn't even know existed. my designer brain loves to sabotage my printer budget I guess
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thomas_johnson3511d ago
You mentioned that hidden clipping mask, and that’s exactly the kind of thing that gets me too. It’s always something small like a stray point or a layer you didn’t even know was there, and suddenly your whole print job has a weird blank strip. I’ve had to start doing a final zoom‑in check on every corner before I export, because those gremlins find a way to hide.
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