David, thanks for thinking about this. At 08:39 -0800 15/12/11, David Creamer wrote:
>OmniGraffle is the problem (as far as your issue is concerned). Like most >business-related programs, it works in RGB. Its drop shadows are RGB and >pixel-based, so Illustrator can convert the RGB to CMYK, but it can't change a >the resulting CMYK shadow to grayscale/K-only shadow. A, I see. Oh. Pity I didn't know that back at the beginning. OmniG was the author's choice: he did his own diagrams. >The easiest thing to do is upgrade to a newer version of Acrobat. You can >convert the entire document to grayscale, removing the CMY seps. >(I don't remember if version 6 can do that or not--it has been too long >since I used that version.) I looked for this sort of option, but could not find it. Trouble is, I'm locked to 10.4.11 by FrameMaker, at present at least, so upgrades are becoming problematic. I can't just remove the CMY, I need to map them onto the K. Would a more recent version of Acrobat do this? If so, I can maybe find someone who has one and can do the one-shot conversion of the pre-press file with it? >PDF/X-3 will not solve your problem as it does not convert color. No, I wasn't looking for it as a solution to that, but merely as a recognisable standard for the printers. I'm still trying to find out if they can do the CMY -> K shift. >As an aside, I would either make a commitment to FrameMaker or to the Mac. >If FrameMaker--get a Windows computer, run Boot Camp on the Mac, or get >Parallels (or similar program) to run Windows on your Mac. >For the latter two, you may need a newer Mac, especially for the last >option. Then upgrade FrameMaker and Acrobat. You give good advice, but not something I can do when faced with a deadline. That's my long-term plan, for sure. My commitment to FrameMaker is absolute and goes back to v 3, 1992. >If you want to say strictly Mac, consider using InDesign (and still upgrade >Acrobat). I do use InDesign as well, but not for textbooks. InDesign's ink manager allows you to do this sort of thing inside the app. Thanks for clarifying the issues. -- Steve
