FM9: correcting CMYK colors in PDF following save-as
Again, working with color in Framemaker rears its ugly head. With Framemaker 10 in development I hope the team will take note that the treatment of color in Framemaker is not adequate and work on resolving the 4-color, spot, and tint issues that Framemaker has added to our jobs since the banishment of Framemaker on the MAC. I live your pain Becky. Scott White Media Production Manager Alamark Technologies 210-704-8239 This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that distribution, disclosure, printing, copying, storage, modification or the taking of any action in reliance upon this transmission is strictly prohibited. Delivery of this message to any person other than the intended recipient shall not compromise or waive such confidentiality. If you have received this communication in error, notify the sender immediately by return email and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Messages sent to or from this contact will be recorded and are subject to archival, monitoring, and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Edmondson, Becky Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:21 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: FM9: correcting CMYK colors in PDF following save-as Using FM9.0p237. I am a longtime user. I will be using FM9 to create PDFs for 4-color printing. Ach, the headaches! I know I have to use Save-As and de-select Convert CMYK Colors to RGB. (I know that this means FM uses its own Unix Postscript generator, and not the Industry Standards Distiller options that I *wish* it would use.) I do indeed get a pure CMYK PDF. Onscreen, the colors look good, but my printer tells me the color values are wrong. Example: CustomBlue is defined as 69.18.23.1 in FM, but it comes out as 68.8,32.2,0,0 in the PDF-very different color. Unless someone knows some FM fix for this, I will be correcting colors in the PDF. My question: Can people recommend the best software for this? Is Acrobat Pro 9 good enough? should I get the PitstopPro plugin? Other? We can't buy anything too expensive-can go up to $800 max. I hope that this is an OK question to ask. My apologies if it is not, please ignore if that is the case. Many thanks for your help, Becky * All information contained in this email should be considered confidential and proprietary. * ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as swhite at alamark.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/swhite%40alamark.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that distribution, disclosure, printing, copying, storage, modification or the taking of any action in reliance upon this transmission is strictly prohibited. Delivery of this message to any person other than the intended recipient shall not compromise or waive such confidentiality. If you have received this communication in error, notify the sender immediately by return email and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Messages sent to or from this contact will be recorded and are subject to archival, monitoring, and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient.
FM9: correcting CMYK colors in PDF following save-as
Using FM9.0p237. I am a longtime user. I will be using FM9 to create PDFs for 4-color printing. Ach, the headaches! I know I have to use Save-As and de-select Convert CMYK Colors to RGB. (I know that this means FM uses its own Unix Postscript generator, and not the Industry Standards Distiller options that I *wish* it would use.) I do indeed get a pure CMYK PDF. Onscreen, the colors look good, but my printer tells me the color values are wrong. Example: CustomBlue is defined as 69.18.23.1 in FM, but it comes out as 68.8,32.2,0,0 in the PDF-very different color. Unless someone knows some FM fix for this, I will be correcting colors in the PDF. My question: Can people recommend the best software for this? Is Acrobat Pro 9 good enough? should I get the PitstopPro plugin? Other? We can't buy anything too expensive-can go up to $800 max. I hope that this is an OK question to ask. My apologies if it is not, please ignore if that is the case. Many thanks for your help, Becky * All information contained in this email should be considered confidential and proprietary. * ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM9: correcting CMYK colors in PDF following save-as
I haven't had to do this myself in 9, but I remember that people are using Acrobat Pro to set the colors; no plug-ins required. If I were you, and you wanted the complete scoop, I'd post for details in the Adobe FM user-to-user forum. Arnis, the group moderator, is an expert in print prep and getting 9 to work acceptably. There are also several similar threads in the archives. Cheers, Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Edmondson, Becky bedmond...@ahurascientific.com wrote: Using FM9.0p237. I am a longtime user. I will be using FM9 to create PDFs for 4-color printing. Ach, the headaches! I know I have to use Save-As and de-select Convert CMYK Colors to RGB. (I know that this means FM uses its own Unix Postscript generator, and not the Industry Standards Distiller options that I *wish* it would use.) I do indeed get a pure CMYK PDF. Onscreen, the colors look good, but my printer tells me the color values are wrong. Example: CustomBlue is defined as 69.18.23.1 in FM, but it comes out as 68.8,32.2,0,0 in the PDF-very different color. Unless someone knows some FM fix for this, I will be correcting colors in the PDF. My question: Can people recommend the best software for this? Is Acrobat Pro 9 good enough? should I get the PitstopPro plugin? Other? We can't buy anything too expensive-can go up to $800 max. I hope that this is an OK question to ask. My apologies if it is not, please ignore if that is the case. Many thanks for your help, Becky * All information contained in this email should be considered confidential and proprietary. * ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as art.campb...@gmail.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM9: correcting CMYK colors in PDF following save-as
Using FM9.0p237. I am a longtime user. I will be using FM9 to create PDFs for 4-color printing. Ach, the headaches! I know I have to use Save-As and de-select Convert CMYK Colors to RGB. (I know that this means FM uses its own Unix Postscript generator, and not the Industry Standards Distiller options that I *wish* it would use.) I do indeed get a pure CMYK PDF. Onscreen, the colors look good, but my printer tells me the color values are wrong. Example: CustomBlue is defined as 69.18.23.1 in FM, but it comes out as 68.8,32.2,0,0 in the PDF-very different color. Unless someone knows some FM fix for this, I will be correcting colors in the PDF. My question: Can people recommend the best software for this? Is Acrobat Pro 9 good enough? should I get the PitstopPro plugin? Other? We can't buy anything too expensive-can go up to $800 max. I hope that this is an OK question to ask. My apologies if it is not, please ignore if that is the case. Many thanks for your help, Becky * All information contained in this email should be considered confidential and proprietary. *
FM9: correcting CMYK colors in PDF following save-as
I haven't had to do this myself in 9, but I remember that people are using Acrobat Pro to set the colors; no plug-ins required. If I were you, and you wanted the complete scoop, I'd post for details in the Adobe FM user-to-user forum. Arnis, the group moderator, is an expert in print prep and getting 9 to work acceptably. There are also several similar threads in the archives. Cheers, Art Art Campbell ? ? ? ? ? ? ? art.campbell at gmail.com ? "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No disclaimers apply. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? DoD 358 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Edmondson, Becky wrote: > Using FM9.0p237. I am a longtime user. > > I will be using FM9 to create PDFs for 4-color printing. Ach, the headaches! > I know I have to use Save-As and de-select Convert CMYK Colors to RGB. (I > know that this means FM uses its own Unix Postscript generator, and not the > Industry Standards Distiller options that I *wish* it would use.) > > I do indeed get a pure CMYK PDF. Onscreen, the colors look good, but my > printer tells me the color values are wrong. Example: CustomBlue is defined > as 69.18.23.1 in FM, but it comes out as 68.8,32.2,0,0 in the PDF-very > different ?color. > > Unless someone knows some FM fix for this, I will be correcting colors in the > PDF. > > My question: Can people recommend the best software for this? Is Acrobat Pro > 9 good enough? should I get the PitstopPro plugin? Other? We can't buy > anything too expensive-can go up to $800 max. > > I hope that this is an OK question to ask. My apologies if it is not, please > ignore if that is the case. > > Many thanks for your help, > Becky > > * All information contained in this email should be considered > confidential and proprietary. ? * > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
