I’m just wondering if your concern is in regard to printing on a printer you control, or a print vendor. Registration IIRC relates to print processes that involve multiple passes (AKA the old way.) Have you found issues with misregistration on printers you control, or your client's printers? If the job will go to a print provider, ask them what they need you to supply.
HTH On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 1:26 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
