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No, actually with Acrobat 6 Pro, you have separations and professional
grade RGB to CMYK conversions at print time "built into" the product.
Use of Quark XPress as "Swiss army knife" for separating and/or imposing
content from arbitrary PDF files is a disaster area and is the source
of many PDF workflow problems.
(1) To date, no Quark XPress version properly imports PDF 1.4 or 1.5
and support for earlier versions is tenuous.
(2) The idea of dumbing down PDF to EPS with PostScript Language
Level 1 is absurd. You lose quite a bit in terms of ability to
deal with PDF features that only appeared in PostScript Language
Levels 2 and 3 (for example, full support for TrueType fonts,
DeviceN -- spot colors, smooth-shaded gradients, etc.)
- Dov
At 6/9/2003 12:25 AM, Jon Bamsey wrote:
>I accept Dov's point re composite colour for photocopiers etc, and
>indeed on some imagesetters it is possible to set up drivers which will
>separate spot or cmyk colours when RIPping a composite file.
>However, to separate for litho printing there are a few options.
>1. Import the PDF file into Quark (need plugin) and run separations to
>an imagesetter from there.
>2. Export as eps from Acrobat (as level 1 ps), import into Quark as run
>seps as above. (more steps but no need for plugin)
>3. Use a PDF plugin utility such as PDF Output Pro, or Crackerjack.
>
>Regs
>Jon B
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>Tim,
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>The idea of PDF files is "view and print everywhere" which implies that
>the absolutely LAST thing you want is a "pre-separated PDF" file.
>
>Typically, you provide a printer with a "composite color" PDF file and
>the printer makes separations from that.
>
> - Dov
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>At 6/8/2003 04:38 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.
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>>Thanks
>>
>>Tim
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