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I also apologize for picking this up in the middle, but a couple of things come to mind. Have you communicated to the prepress people at the newspapers your desire to overprint black. The reason I say that is we operate in a Creo/Scitex Brisque composite color prepress workflow in which black overprint and "honoring" postscript overprints in general are not automatic. In the Creo/Scitex Brisque prepress workflow, there are two rip settings affecting overprints.
First, there is a black overprint setting that can be turned on (or left off). Doing so causes all 100% black lineart (vector art) to overprint regardless of what is called for in the file. We turn this setting on over 50% of the time (we look at the page elements and make a decision).
Second, we have a postscipt overprint setting that can be turned on or off. Turning it on, causes the overprints set in the file to be honored. Turning it off, all overprint settings are ignored. In a Creo/Scitex Brisque composite color prepress workflow this setting is seldom turned on. The reason is trapping. If we honor PS overprints, all Quark/InDesign/Pagemaker, etc. traps (which are simply overprints) will be reflected in the ripped file. Once again, in a Creo/Scitex Brisque composite color prepress workflow world that is bad, because Creo/Scitex has an excellent trapping program that does a much better job.
The reason I bore you with all this, is your problem might be with the rip workflow your vendor is using and not in your settings. If you print your file to a .ps file with separations turned on and then distill it, you should see each separation on a different PDF page and be able to see whether the overprints are being recognized. Once again, this is no guarantee a composite PDF will work.
That is enough, back to work.
Dick Eystad Royal Graphix Co., Inc. 214 Copeland Ave La Crosse, WI 54603
On Apr 29, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Kenton Smith wrote:
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I apologize for picking up this string in the middle. I have mostly Quark
files that have the default setting set to make black text overprint. I PDF
the files and run them through distiller and when they come out the other
side the black text is set to knockout. If I set my PDF job settings to
preserve overprint settings this fixes the problem. I am using PitStop to
confirm this. What I am confused about is in PitStop it has SOM (Standard
Overprint mode), and IOM, (Illustrator Overprint mode). It seems to set it
to Illustrator. I think it works fine but I don't know what that means.
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Kenton Smith
Production Director/Designer
Scrapbook Retailer Magazine
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On 4/29/04 12:19 AM, "afzal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Hi
As a workaround you can reset the overprint option in enfocus pitstop for the moment,if you can zip you eps and quark if not big send it across.
Rgds
Afzal
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