In the meantime, I believe I've found the sad answer to my question.
Overprint settings only work when printing _separations_ to PDF. This is
ridiculous! They should work on composite PDFs, too!
So, in the end, creating an Overprint Black color definition,and
assigning it to appropriate paragraph formats on the body page and to
the line rules on the master page is all that is necessary. It just does
not work with composite PDFs. Does anyone send separations to their
printer, rather than a composite PDF in this day and age?
Mike Wickham
Hi, all,
I'm having issues getting overprint settings to work. I have a document
that has a full-page, solid-color graphic imported and filling the
entire master page background. So the page is not white, but has a
color. I want to overprint black text on it, rather than have the text
knockout the background and risk registration issues at press time. But
I cannot get overprint to work. The text keeps knocking out the
background. Here is what I have done:
1. I created a color definition called Overprint Black, set to Process,
CMYK, 0% CMY and 100% black, and Overprint.
2. I assigned Overprint Black as the text color for all text formats on
the body page. I thought this would be enough, but it wasn't so, I did
the following in progressive steps.
3. On the master page, I set Object Properties of all text frames and
the background EPS graphic to Overprint. I found some Adobe help that
says that EPS files don't overprint, so I tried with a TIF background
graphic instead. Same result.
4. On the reference page, I set the Object Properties of the Single Line
background frame item (there are a couple of these on the page) to
Color: Overprint Black and Overprint: Overprint.
So I have text color, text frames, and even the graphic (though it is
behind everything) set to overprint. I expect text and single line rules
to overprint the colored background graphic. But they all knock out the
background graphic.
Using File>Print with printer set to Adobe PDF (with and without print
to file) I generate a complete PDF, using FrameMaker 10 and Acrobat
2017. The PDF is beautiful, but the Object Inspector in Acrobat shows
"Overprint=False" for everything. And if I look at separations, the
non-black plates are, indeed, knocked out.
I have been away from FrameMaker for a while, so am a little rusty. What
am I missing? Why is Overprint not working?
Mike Wickham
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