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I am having an issue with hidden layers becoming visible after nesting.
Currently I'm preflighting artwork with PitStop Server 2019 and nesting the artwork with Grafitroniks Prep Center v2.5.31.
With PitStop I'm creating a cut path that is a stroke with just 100% Cyan and moving it to a layer named Thru-cut since Prep Center uses layers. By default this layer is not visible.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C1IB8G ... sp=sharing


After I generate a layout with Prep Center suddenly the hidden layer is shown and there is no more layer information.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FAcHLn ... sp=sharing


I'm guessing that Prep Center is flattening the layers and when it does this the cut path is no longer being hidden.
I wasn't having this issue when I was manually preflighting my artwork with Illustrator and saving with Acrobat layers on. Currently my workaround is to create the cut path in the background of the image, but this doesn't work if the artwork is transparent going to the edge.
Does anyone have any suggestions or insight on this type of issue?

The links require you to login to Googledrive and then get share permissions.
Any chance the share settings can be changed to just download.

I updated so anyone can view the images. I'm not sure if there's away to set it up to just download

It does seem the application flattens layers which is very strange considering that they are very common place in that market.
What also seems strange is the part about exporting as a PDF from Illustrator working.
Was that actually a PDF export or an AI file?
I would contact Grafitroniks support as well and see if they have any idea.

What you could do is try the Ghent Output Suite and test what the PDF features the tiling application supports.
Layers are part of the test suite.
https://www.gwg.org/workflow-tools/test ... put-suite/

abailescollins wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 3:36 pm Was that actually a PDF export or an AI file?

Generally the files I receive are pdfs that I open in Illustrator and resave as pdfs.

I'll reach out to Grafitroniks and also see what I can do with Ghent.