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On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 06:38 PM, Tim Gross wrote:
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Can anyone tell me the best way to make Pre-seperated PDFs from MS Publisher?
I have a new customer coming on board and they use publisher which I never have had to deal with. I am mainly concerned about file size.
The final output will be for newspaper web printing 35 lb stock. I am quite familiar with setting up Pagemaker and Quark for this but just need some help with Publisher.
Ah, Publisher. This new customer is transferring the cost of using and training someone to use higher quality page layout programs, such as Quark and InDesign, to you.
Anyway, to make your PDF's, we have found it best to do a "Save as" and select PostScript (.ps), then distill the PostScript file. All your composite PDF's will be RGB. You will then need to convert them to CMYK. Remember to convert all of you black type to 100% black, because when you convert RGB black to CMYK, you get a four color black.
If your customer plans on using spot colors, you will need to first make separated PDF's, because that is the only way spot colors are supported in Publisher. Then you will need to use something like Creo's Seps to Comp to make the separated PDF into a composite.
Be sure your customer knows that there is an additional charge to make their files PDF/x compliant. Also let then know that if they were using a application such as Quark or InDesign, they would not have these additional charges.
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