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I don't know if it will work for Publisher, but for Quark we use the free PrinergyXT and the CreoDistillerAssistant (a prologue for Distiller) which reads the proper color information into the Postscript and then interprets it correctly when going to PDF. Fixes most problems with spot colors, duotones, etc. _____ John Clifford GTS Companies A TechBooks Company Technical Support 5650 Jillson St., Los Angeles, CA 90040 (323) 888-8889 * FAX (323) 888-1849 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ The GTS Companies: GTS Publishing Services, GTS Graphics, GTS Innova: Your Single-Source Solution! Los Angeles CA * York, PA * Boston MA * New Delhi, India --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Jacob Sch�ffer > Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 4:33 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc: 'Steve Robison' > Subject: RE: [PDF] MS Publisher File PDF's > > > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > Steve, > > When MS Publisher print it's output is passed to PostScript via > Windows GDI > and the Windows PostScript driver. When you print composite as you intent > the MS Publisher separation and traping functionality dies, and > spot colours > are converted to their screen representation, i.e. downloads to PostScript > as RGB. > > Creating a composite PostScript file and converting that to PDF with > Distiller will NOT change that, though you might be able to succesfully > in-RIP separate it into CMYK plates. However, neither PageMaker or > QuarkXpress can reliably separate such a job. > > If you want to run a composite workflow and need to make spot colour > separations, the only *reasonable* (biased statement - I wrote > the software > for it) route I know of, is to use Colour Chameleon for conversion to PDF. > Colour Chameleon will let you re-apply the spot colour > information in a two > step process: > > 1) Load the PostScript file into Colour Chameleon, which will > analyse it and present to you an editable list of the > colours it contain. > 2) Edit the colours you need to modify. Conversion from RGB > to a spot colour is easily set-up > 3) Create the PDF. DO NOT place PDF's into PageMaker or > QuakrXpress if you want to *reliably* preserve spot colour > information. Instead, export all pages as PostScript Level 1 > EPS's and use them instead. That WILL work, however. > > Details on how Colour Chameleon works can be found at: > http://www.pdfstore.com/details.asp?ProdID=215. > > If you choose to test it please make sure to apply 'Patch 08' found at > http://www.grafikhuset.dk/colourchameleondownload.asp. > > Note that the current version of Colour Chameleon in NOT working with > Acrobat 6.0. However, it works pretty well with Acrobat 4.05, 5.0 or 5.05 > (recommended). > > Hope this helps. > > Best regards > Jacob Sch�ffer > DTP/Technical Support > > -------------------------------------------- > Grafikhuset (House of Graphics) > Fures�vej 16 > 3520 Farum > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Robison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PDF] MS Publisher File PDF's > > > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > Let me be more specific. I can create the PDF. However, the only way I > seem to be able to get separations is when the Publisher file print dialog > is set to separations, resulting in a multipage pdf, one for each color. > > I would like to have a composite separatable pdf so that I don't > have to try > to reimpose each separation in a layout program. I would like to do the > separations in the layout program rather than have a pre-separated pdf. > > Steve > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janine Libke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 12:05 PM > Subject: Re: [PDF] MS Publisher File PDF's > > > > > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > > > I do have some clients that send in Publisher documents. Using > an Adobe > > Postscript driver, print the job to postscript file and then > distill. This > > works every time for me. > > > > > From: "Steve Robison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:54:18 -0400 > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: [PDF] MS Publisher File PDF's > > > > > > > > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Is anyone familiar enough with MS Publisher to create a pdf > that > > > is spot color separatable in a layout program like Quark or > > > Pagemaker. > > > > > > I can make a PDF that has the separations on each page of the > PDF. > > > But I would like to have a PDF that I can import or place as a > > > composite and then separate in the layout program. > > > > > > I know this question may be better answered in a Publisher > forum > > > but I'm touching all of the bases since your folks are soooo darned > > > good. > > > > > > Steve Robison > > > West Printing Co. > > > Toledo, OH > > > 419 474 7172 > > > > > > > > > To change your subscription: > > > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > > > > > > > > > > > > To change your subscription: > > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
