> While it is true that Acrobat can accommodate many of the prepress functions
> necessary to deal with Publisher it is still lacking in several areas when
> compared to Enfocus PitStop or Callas pdfColorConvert.
>
> PitStop is that all inclusive preflighting and editing tool. While
> pdfColorConvert is particularly tailored to deal with color space
> conversions. It is particularly well suited for converting Office PDF's to
> CMYK because Callas has specifically engineered pdfColorConvert to deal with
> Office RGB in a better way. None of the other color conversion tools do it
> nearly as well. Even the RGB to CMYK color conversion that Adobe does from
> within Acrobat Pro.
>
> One of the downsides to using Acrobat for all the functions is that
> everything  you need is kind of scattered all about. There isn't one
> intuitive dialog box that contains the prepress functions. That is until
> Acrobat 8 came along when Adobe introduced "fixups" as part of preflighting.
> Callas makes the preflighting engine and automates the "fixups" that are
> performed by Adobe. So now it is significantly easier. But you still have
> the problem of inferior color separations coming from Adobe when compared to
> Callas.
>
> On the other hand with Callas and Adobe doing the color space
> transformations you do *not* have the ability to take an RGB document and
> make it spot color. With PitStop you can do this.
>
> On the other hand (now isn't that redundant?) with PitStop and Acrobat 8 you
> cannot detect and fix RGB gray images like you can with pdfColorConvert.
> That is usually reserved for $10,000 or more color servers.
>
> No one thing does it all best. It really is a little of everything to deal
> with PDF's best.
>
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> On 4/10/07 3:05 PM, in article
> 88udnXMAOqp8lIHbnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@giganews.com, "anyone" <anyone@nowhere.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I spent some time with Adobe Tech support on this one (as well as in this
> > group). Acrobat can make the conversion, although it is not quite
> > documented.
> > In that you have ID, do you have Acrobat, Full? Pro? version 6, 7 or 8?
> > I have a batch process set up with Acrobat 8, can check if it is built into
> > 6 or 7.
> > BTW, we've been able to cram everything to 100%K except anything converted
> > to WordArt out of Publisher 2003; just rec'd 2007 this a.m.
> >
> > "Greg" <Greg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:00DBEB5E-AAD6-41BC-9ECB-FE55C4F3791E@microsoft.com...
> >> Im not suprised by that answer, im using 2003 btw.  InDesign is my
> >> preferred
> >> tool but in my job, im dealing files sent in by people that use whatever
> >> they
> >> have and unfortunatly publisher is what people have most...painful!
> >>
> >> I thought I heard that Microsoft had a program coming out soon that would
> >> focus more on commercial use and compete with programs like InDesign and
> >> Quark and such, anyone heard anything about that?
> >>
> >> "Matt Beals" wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 4/10/07 7:08 AM, in article
> >>> EC4160BB-18D3-4274-B7D2-8BDB40A1A0DD@microsoft.com, "Greg"
> >>> <Greg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> This is kind of an extension on my previous message but I feel it would
> >>>> help
> >>>> a lot more.  Can someone give me a quick step by step on making a
> >>>> document
> >>>> with text and photo into a press quality color seperated piece using
> >>>> PMS
> >>>> colors and process black?  Or maybe point me to a site that can give
> >>>> step by
> >>>> step on that stuff?
> >>>
> >>> The only way to do it is to print as separations. Printing composite
> >>> everything goes RGB. It should be better with Publisher 2003 and 2007
> >>> using
> >>> the commercial printing tools, but alas it is not. I think it was in
> >>> Publisher 2003 that they got away from the separations themselves from
> >>> being
> >>> send as RGB gray which cause a ton of problems.
> >>>
> >>> Short answer, there is no "easy" way of getting composite PDF's to come
> >>> with
> >>> spot colors. Enfocus PitStop can go a long ways to making it easier, but
> >>> that doesn't mean it is "easy" even then.
> >>>
> >>> Matt Beals
> >>> Consultant
> >>> Enfocus Certified Trainer
> >>> Markzware Recognized Trainer
> >>> (206) 201-2320 - Main
> >>> (720) 367-3869 - eFax
> >>> mailto:matt@mattbeals.com [mailto:matt@mattbeals.com]
> >>>
> >>> Come visit me at:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.automatetheworkflow.com
> >>> http://www.mattbeals.com
> >>> http://blog.mattbeals.com
> >>>
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