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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Commercial Printing / July 2007Colored text converting to black in PDF
I'm in a position where I have end-users who create their publications in Publisher and convert to PDF for us to print. I'm getting a sporadic problem with the Save as PDF add-in changing the color of any colored text (and only text) to black in a few cases (3 out of 30 in the test group). Converting the exact same Publisher file on our machines produces the correct colors. Using Acrobat to distill is no longer an option as customers have not been happy using Acrobat to distill due to the long process and the glitches that take place in conversion. Manually altering the PDF in any way (using PitStop or whatever) is also out of the question (3 people just can't do it for 1000 files each week). If we can get this one last problem figured out, we'll be in the clear. Does anyone have any ideas? I assume that you are talking about Publisher 2007. I haven't run across this particular issue. What settings are being used? I always use high quality settings and leave everything RGB. I Callas pdfColorConvert, Apago PDF Enhancer or PitStop to convert Publisher files. You should try pdfColorConvert or PDF Enhancer. Maybe there's something in that conversion process. I don't think that anyone really knows what CMYK Publisher is converting to. It might be something like SWOP, but I have no idea. Even when I use automation to convert Publisher files to PDF through Acrobat I haven't had this problem. Using the PDF Maker option can sometimes have some interesting effects on transparency (if you tell it to *not* preserve Publisher transparency, but again I haven't seen anything like you are describing. If you'd like to send me some of the sample files where you have this problem I'd be happy to try it out on my end. 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://forums.mattbeals.com Friends don't let friends write HTML email > I'm in a position where I have end-users who create their publications > in Publisher and convert to PDF for us to print. I'm getting a [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Does anyone have any ideas? |
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