Hi Ellie, This is a problem with people who are stuck in the past. If you are a repro house or publisher, surely it is a duty to be able to open files in the way they were designed to be seen, rather than bodge everything through stone age Quark? ( Sorry Rant over) - suggest he checks the files through Acrobat 5 (full not reader) which can be set up to use all the profiles that his press will work on. He can output to his RIP from it too...
Generally, output from InDesign is fairly straightforward and if the PDF Style > Press is used you are fairly safe. Make sure that in Export>advanced, Colour is set to CMYK and the destination profile is set to the printer's press profile or a generic one like US web coated (SWOP) v2 depending on the press and paper stock to be used. One thing worth mentioning which has been talked of here before; if the images are in CMYK, are they in the right space, who converted them and were they converted using black point compensation and perceptual rendering? In my experience, it makes a large difference to the final print quality, especially the perceptual rendering for photographs (rel colorimetric for graphics). Nick WB. > I have produced an ad in Indesign 2 that I had to send to the > publisher in pdf format, as he is working in Quark Express. He says > that all pdf's look pixelated in Quark, so he just hopes it's > optimised for printing. I set it for highest resolution. Is there > anything else I have to do? > Ellie =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
