Hi Mike,
I checked using a simple rectangle and some text.
I checked the behaviour with FM 8 and FM 2017 (no FM10 installed)
Changing the color definition to "overprint" worked, as the pdf has
marked the black color as "overprint".
Here the info in the Acrobat "output preview" tool for the modified
file:
In case the normal color definition is used, "Page has Overprint" will
show a "No" in the resulting PDF.
I cannot say more about this.
Of course, for overprint or knock-out to become visible or effective, a
separation is necessary.
Best regards -- Tino H. Haida, Berlin
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2021-04-14 05:04, 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
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