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Sebding the JOB as RGB or CMYK wouldn't cause Error in your case. I guess You should print to a file or hotfolder and use distiller instead ; it is more reliable in generating PDF Ahmed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 8:50 PM Subject: [PDF] Identify RGB, convert to CMYK... > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > Just finished producing a 40 page newspaper for the first time. Built pages > in Quark 4.11. Converted to PDF with Quark's Export as PDF and Acrobat 5. > (Somewhere in the session I saw "Creo" or something flash on screen; perhaps > that's a third party Xtension; or not.) > > There was one to ask technical questions, so I used whatever settings were > established at the job site. > > A few of the pages errored out in Distiller. One was fixed by substituting > fonts. For the others I exported a PDF ad from Acrobat 5 as a TIFF (which > would be RGB), converted to CMYK in Photoshop, and placed in Quark. Small > type gets pixilated but otherwise that worked. > > Under close deadline, I had more questions than answers. I wondered if an > RGB PDF could error the PDF-making process? Wondered if I can identify RGB / > CMYK in Quark? Couldn't even find a way to identify the color mode in > Acrobat and then convert to CMYK. Wondered if the fact that the TIFFs > exported from Acrobat 5 were RGB meant that the original PDFs were also RGB? > > Answers and suggestions invited... > > Chuck M > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
