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Larry, < ... then convert to CMYK via PittStop or QBT. > These are both good choices that provide sufficient results for many purposes. However, if you want reasonably good conversion you'll need to set-up these applications to assume sRGB as input and select a proper destination profile for conversion. The caveat with this is that black or gray text might separate on all four color plates unless you set-up conversion to use fixed tables (which typically use max. black generation - spoiling images). < ... OR, place the Word file into InDesign, and ... > Ah, if you have plenty of time this might be the route. I'd like to see that production environment that can afford to use this approach for a 200 pages document. < ... OR, open the RGB PDF with Illustrator 9 or 10, change document color space to CMYK, select all and convert to CMYK. Resave.> First, Illustrator is NOT, repeat NOT, a general purpose PDF editor. Using Illustrator for this task is dangerous and is NOT recommended. Even Adobe does not recommend it because A LOT of 'things' can happen. Best regards Jacob Sch�ffer DTP/Technical support -------------------------------------------- Grafikhuset (House of Graphics) Fures�vej 16 DK-3520 Farum Denmark Tel: +45 7011 0999 Fax: +45 4499 7020 Web: http://www.grafikhuset.dk http://www.grafikhuset.net/international Grafikhuset is a full service prepress centre offering * Imaging * Desktop publishing of any kind * Web design and automation * Advanced PDF workflow set-up and tools * Prepress troubleshooting * Education and training * PostScript programming * Specialized software for the Graphic Arts industry -----Original Message----- From: Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PDF] CMYK PDF using Microsoft Word "Does anyone knows how to create a pre-press ready PDF using Microsoft Word on a Windows PC ? My main concern is that the PDFs I create from Word have RGB images and not CMYK ones. I am using Acrobat 6." It's a RGB world in MS products. A couple of choices. Create your PDF from word in the normal fashion, which of course will be RGB, then convert to CMYK via PittStop or QBT. OR, place the Word file into InDesign, and use InDesign's PDF export function with CMYK selected under color. ID will do the conversion. OR, open the RGB PDF with Illustrator 9 or 10, change document color space to CMYK, select all and convert to CMYK. Resave. Larry Grohman SS Fort Worth To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
