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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Commercial Printing / June 2007Prepress PDF
Hello, We need to convert publisher files to PDF so they can be sent to press from our macs properly but every time the black text, black lines etc. convert to a mixture of CMYK values instead of 100% black. If I open the PDF file in Illustrator, it says the file is in RGB mode. We have checked that the settings in Publisher are set to CMYK (Tools > Commercial Printing) and Distiller 5 is set to PRESS quality for the settings. All text etc. is set to 100% K and yet the PDF file converts to RGB. Any idea what we are missing or doing wrong in maintaining this as a CMYK file? Thanks! On 6/18/07 8:52 AM, in article B64C91D1-C5D7-4EF9-8C60-51DB61151FA8@microsoft.com, "Jeremy B" <Jeremy B@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Hello, > We need to convert publisher files to PDF so they can be sent to press from [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > file? > Thanks! There are a couple of ways of getting Publisher files prepared for printing. Callas pdfColorConvert - A plug-in for Acrobat that does the best job of color conversions because it has a specially tuned configuration that provides better RGB to CMYK conversions for Office (Windows GDI) applications. All the RGB grays/blacks are converted to separation black. This is also the only program that can find RGB grayscale images and convert them to black. Everything else converts them to rich gray (CMYK gray). Apago PDF Enhancer - A "everything and the kitchen sink tool" that does an excellent job of converting RGB to CMYK. It doesn't do it as well as pdfColorConvert, but it does many things pdfColorConvert cannot do. Acrobat Pro - can convert colors to CMYK using the ACE engine. PitStop Pro - more flexible than any of the other tools above but doesn't convert colors as well. With global changes and action lists you can make some pretty sophisticated selections and conversions. Matt Beals Consultant Enfocus Certified Trainer Markzware Recognized Trainer (206) 201-2320 - Main (720) 367-3869 - eFax mailto:matt@mattbeals.com Come visit me at: http://www.automatetheworkflow.com http://www.mattbeals.com http://blog.mattbeals.com Friends don't let friends write HTML email > On 6/18/07 8:52 AM, in article > B64C91D1-C5D7-4EF9-8C60-51DB61151FA8@microsoft.com, "Jeremy B" <Jeremy [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > > Friends don't let friends write HTML email Okay, so basically we already have one of your suggestions installed, Acrobat 5, and we use the Printer Driver portion to "print" the file to a PDF. The problem still remains though... we can't figure out how to get the PDF to retain it's CMYK settings. Whether it's an issue with Acrobat or Publisher I'm not sure. You need at least pro 6. The problem is Publisher printing composite cmyk; it doesn't. You are better off printing to distiller using rgb colors and then converting to cmyk. I've gone through this with several different Publisher versions including 07. Convert all the pub colors to rgb, print to Distiller and then convert to cmyk.  SignatureMatt Beals Consultant Enfocus Certified Trainer Markzware Recognized Trainer (206) 201-2320 - Main (720) 367-3869 - eFax mailto:matt@mattbeals.com Come visit me at: http://www.mattbeals.com http://forums.mattbeals.com http://blog.mattbeals.com Friends don't let friends write HTML email "Matt Beals" wrote: > On 6/18/07 8:52 AM, in article > B64C91D1-C5D7-4EF9-8C60-51DB61151FA8@microsoft.com, "Jeremy B" <Jeremy [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > Friends don't let friends write HTML email Okay, so basically we already have one of your suggestions installed, Acrobat 5, and we use the Printer Driver portion to "print" the file to a PDF. The problem still remains though... we can't figure out how to get the PDF to retain it's CMYK settings. Whether it's an issue with Acrobat or Publisher I'm not sure. Matt, I don't have a PS printer installed to test this, but would it be possible to create a PS file and convert Black to PS Black then open the PS file in Acrobat 5? Mike > You need at least pro 6. The problem is Publisher printing composite cmyk; > it doesn't. You are better off printing to distiller using rgb colors and > then converting to cmyk. I've gone through this with several different > Publisher versions including 07. Convert all the pub colors to rgb, print to > Distiller and then convert to cmyk. On 6/24/07 10:40 AM, in article 5d4fe$467eac64$453de1ab$27221@FUSE.NET, > Matt, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> Publisher versions including 07. Convert all the pub colors to rgb, print to >> Distiller and then convert to cmyk. Depending on what you've got you probably have a Distiller printer already installed. You can use that. In the advanced options of the printer you can set the driver to convert gray/black to postscript gray/black automatically. You still have the problem of the RGB colors. You'll need some sort of plug-in for Acrobat to do the color conversion unless you let Distiller do it for you. Matt Beals Consultant Enfocus Certified Trainer Markzware Recognized Trainer (206) 201-2320 - Main (720) 367-3869 - eFax mailto:matt@mattbeals.com Come visit me at: http://www.automatetheworkflow.com http://www.mattbeals.com http://blog.mattbeals.com Friends don't let friends write HTML email |
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