Ellie Kennard wrote: >> Dear List, >> >> I am having some printing done by a company that is very helpful. I >> asked if they had a profile they could send so I could soft-proof the >> file before sending to them. >> >> They sent me a PPD file. Is there any way to convert that to icc?
> Not a chance <LOL - tears running down my checks> These guys either > misunderstood you or doesn't have a clue. Me too Thomas, I needed a good laugh. <g> Lets be kind and give them the benefit of doubt and say communication error rather than clueless. <bg> >> Or >> how could I use it? > Well if you buy their printer you can print to it with the PPD <G>. > Sorry, not much help I'm afraid... Having your service providers PPD can be very useful, but perhaps not for most folk - and not as a colour description. PPD's are used in a PostScript print driver set-up dialog box. A company I used to work for sent out native files for film (layout files, linked vector/bitmap images and printer/screen fonts). Often the output would not exactly match what our output did with some font flow or spacing. If I took on the responsibility of setting up the job and printing to PostScript file using the service providers PPD then these sort of problems were no longer an issue, as I was creating the file that would be imposed/output. It is my guess that this SP does not get much client requests for ICC profiles or Photoshop separation tables. Regards, Stephen Marsh. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
