RE: Printing Color Images
So you are embedding a pdf in the frame document? When you output your pdfs, what are the colour settings in pdfmaker? From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ed Nodland Sent: 11 September 2013 03:46 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Printing Color Images This seems like it should be simple and done routinely by many others. I have an image of a flammable substance label. It has a pantone red, a pantone yellow, and black. I want to use the image in a Framemaker document that will be sent for commercial printing using Spot Color not process printing. How can I accomplish this? The image is an Illustrator file. I save the file to PDF, load it into Frame 10, save the Frame file as PDF, open in acrobat pro and use Advanced Print Production Output Preview to see that the image is a mix of CMYK not my spot pantone colors. I also suspect that the image saved from Illustrator as a PDF format should display the spot colors but it does not. So the problem/solution might start there. Ed Nodland ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Printing Color Images
Hi Ed, probably your colors are set to automatically separate to CMYK in Illustrator: If you use a pantone library, all colors here are by default defined as CMYK-separating colors, although a pantone value is displayed in the color window... = Set the two colors to spotcolor in the color options (swatch options). A small dot will then be visible in each color (in the swatches palette for the document). After this, when producing a PDF, set the output option to no color conversion. The pantone colors will then have their own plates in the pdf as spot colors. Pls see also: -- http://karafintechteam.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/5/3/7853240/spot_color_and_adobe_illustrator.pdf Best regards Tino H. Haida, Berlin Ed Nodland: This seems like it should be simple and done routinely by many others. I have an image of a flammable substance label. It has a pantone red, a pantone yellow, and black. I want to use the image in a Framemaker document that will be sent for commercial printing using Spot Color not process printing. How can I accomplish this? The image is an Illustrator file. I save the file to PDF, load it into Frame 10, save the Frame file as PDF, open in acrobat pro and use Advanced Print Production Output Preview to see that the image is a mix of CMYK not my spot pantone colors. I also suspect that the image saved from Illustrator as a PDF format should display the spot colors but it does not. So the problem/solution might start there. Ed Nodland ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Printing Color Images
OK, Save As PDF was the trick. Thanks. Now most of the images work fine. The rest require a conversion of process to spot color changes in Illustrator. On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Ed Nodland enodl...@gmail.com wrote: This seems like it should be simple and done routinely by many others. I have an image of a flammable substance label. It has a pantone red, a pantone yellow, and black. I want to use the image in a Framemaker document that will be sent for commercial printing using Spot Color not process printing. How can I accomplish this? The image is an Illustrator file. I save the file to PDF, load it into Frame 10, save the Frame file as PDF, open in acrobat pro and use Advanced Print Production Output Preview to see that the image is a mix of CMYK not my spot pantone colors. I also suspect that the image saved from Illustrator as a PDF format should display the spot colors but it does not. So the problem/solution might start there. Ed Nodland ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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: Printing Color Images
Thanks, With the help and clues from several sources I now understand the color printing issue, including the Save as PDF In Frame and setting spot colors in Illustrator. Ed On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Heiko Haida i...@heiko-haida.de wrote: ** Hi Ed, probably your colors are set to automatically separate to CMYK in Illustrator: If you use a pantone library, all colors here are by default defined as CMYK-separating colors, although a pantone value is displayed in the color window... = Set the two colors to spotcolor in the color options (swatch options). A small dot will then be visible in each color (in the swatches palette for the document). After this, when producing a PDF, set the output option to no color conversion. The pantone colors will then have their own plates in the pdf as spot colors. Pls see also: -- http://karafintechteam.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/5/3/7853240/spot_color_and_adobe_illustrator.pdf Best regards Tino H. Haida, Berlin Ed Nodland: This seems like it should be simple and done routinely by many others. I have an image of a flammable substance label. It has a pantone red, a pantone yellow, and black. I want to use the image in a Framemaker document that will be sent for commercial printing using Spot Color not process printing. How can I accomplish this? The image is an Illustrator file. I save the file to PDF, load it into Frame 10, save the Frame file as PDF, open in acrobat pro and use Advanced Print Production Output Preview to see that the image is a mix of CMYK not my spot pantone colors. I also suspect that the image saved from Illustrator as a PDF format should display the spot colors but it does not. So the problem/solution might start there. Ed Nodland ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
