I'm the wrong person to ask. :-) I would suggest logging a bug or feature request at the Adobe Tracker: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/home
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 2:26 PM Mike Wickham <i...@mikewickham.com> wrote: > In the meantime, I believe I've found the sad answer to my question. > Overprint settings only work when printing _separations_ to PDF. This is > ridiculous! They should work on composite PDFs, too! > > So, in the end, creating an Overprint Black color definition,and > assigning it to appropriate paragraph formats on the body page and to > the line rules on the master page is all that is necessary. It just does > not work with composite PDFs. Does anyone send separations to their > printer, rather than a composite PDF in this day and age? > > Mike Wickham > >> 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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> This message is from the Framers mailing list > >> > >> Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > >> Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > >> Archives located at > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > >> Subscribe and unsubscribe at > >> http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > >> Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
