Hi, all,
I'm having issues getting overprint settings to work. I have a document
that has a full-page, solid-color graphic imported and filling the
entire master page background. So the page is not white, but has a
color. I want to overprint black text on it, rather than have the text
knockout the background and risk registration issues at press time. But
I cannot get overprint to work. The text keeps knocking out the
background. Here is what I have done:
1. I created a color definition called Overprint Black, set to Process,
CMYK, 0% CMY and 100% black, and Overprint.
2. I assigned Overprint Black as the text color for all text formats on
the body page. I thought this would be enough, but it wasn't so, I did
the following in progressive steps.
3. On the master page, I set Object Properties of all text frames and
the background EPS graphic to Overprint. I found some Adobe help that
says that EPS files don't overprint, so I tried with a TIF background
graphic instead. Same result.
4. On the reference page, I set the Object Properties of the Single Line
background frame item (there are a couple of these on the page) to
Color: Overprint Black and Overprint: Overprint.
So I have text color, text frames, and even the graphic (though it is
behind everything) set to overprint. I expect text and single line rules
to overprint the colored background graphic. But they all knock out the
background graphic.
Using File>Print with printer set to Adobe PDF (with and without print
to file) I generate a complete PDF, using FrameMaker 10 and Acrobat
2017. The PDF is beautiful, but the Object Inspector in Acrobat shows
"Overprint=False" for everything. And if I look at separations, the
non-black plates are, indeed, knocked out.
I have been away from FrameMaker for a while, so am a little rusty. What
am I missing? Why is Overprint not working?
Mike Wickham
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