InDesign PDF files appear with undesirable transparency in Acrobat

I'm swapping this question because I get no bites in discussions of Acrobat:

I suddenly met a question where every PDF I get out of InDesign CS4 appears in Acrobat with a transparent background (as opposed to the white paper in the background). I've never had a problem with this before today, and it seems that no settings have been changed to affect production. This produces both, when the files are directly exported from InDesign (by using the parameters of quality of press with "simulate overprinting" turned on), and postscript files are sent to distill. I have tested many files, including those with only simple text black and white (to exclude questions spot color and transparency) but the result is the same. Using the overview of flattening in Acrobat also does not solve the problem.

These PDF files are not any question when a job is passed to pre press; However, I need to display a pdf file that is viewed on the screen and the white background lack is really complicates things. Any ideas on what could happen here?

InDesign never displays any background unless you provide one. The only implicit background color is the color of the paper itself, that is, not ink.

Is that what you see in Acrobat the background checkerboard to transparency? If so, I think that your problem is not the PDF from InDesign, but rather an Acrobat file setting.

Go to the Acrobat Preferences via CTRL-k and in the pane to display of Page , acheck the option show the grid transparency. This should solve the problem.

-Dov

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