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Thank you very much Greg, that should work fine, I will try it tonight. In response to Leonard, I want the areas that are 100% CMYK to become just 100% K, and leave the remaining colors in the image alone. Thanks for your responses, any other input would be great. Mark PrePress Tech CCT Press Westminster,MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Greg Onder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > Mark, > > If you know how to select areas of an image in Photoshop you can open > the > image from Acrobat, make the correction, and save. Acrobat will update > the > image. > > I use Acrobat v. 4, Photoshop v.6 and I'm on a Mac. > 1)open pdf. > 2)select object touchup tool. > 3)Hold option key and double click on image. This should launch > Photoshop. > 4)Make correction to image. > 5)Save image. > 6)Go back to pdf(which you should leave open in background). Image > should > update. Save pdf. > > Hope this helps! > > Gregory Onder > > > > ---------- > > From: Mark I > > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:40 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [PDF-Basics] Converting CMYK to K within an image > > > > > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com/ > > __________________________________________________________________ > > > > Hello list! > > Does anyone know how to convert 4/C black _within an image_ to just > black? > > We have Pitstop Pro(MAC OS 9.2) which has Action List items to convert > ALL > > 100 CMYK to 100 K, All Black to Real Black, and All Gray to Real Gray > - > > BUT they only apply to line art and text. > > The problem comes when clients send us PDFs with ads that were placed > in > > the original document as images, most of the time it is something even > > they can't fix because THEIR customer sends it that way, and on it > goes. > > Then the resulting imagesetter output has all four colors in the black > > areas and all that extra ink wreaks havoc in the pressroom and > bindery. > > Sometimes we can mask it out on the negatives, but not when screened > areas > > are involved, and we are changing to DTP(direct to plate) next year, > so no > > more negatives to correct, it gets imaged on the plate that way. > > Thanks for any suggestions in advance. > > Mark > > PrePress Tech > > CCT Press > > Westminster,MD > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
