From: Matthew Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PDF] Pagemaker pdf
On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 08:26 AM, Rioduo wrote:
First, let me quickly explain my situation. While I have no formal training & limited experience, I find myself in the postion of being resonpsible for pre-press production. I find from reading the posts here & in pdf basics, that on software & training, there is much we need, but at this point I have to work with what I have.
We will be getting a print job that will be created in PageMaker, then the pdf's sent to us. Our procedure is to impose the pdf's to Quark 4.1, then rip. I'm concerned about the color. My limited past experience has been that the black text will be converted to 4/C. Is there a way around this, either when it is initially laid out, distilled or after we receive? I have Acrobat 5 and know how to correct color photos that need to be cmyk, but nothing beyond that. I'm dreading this, but the deal has been done, at another office, without any input from us. My only option is to get it to press.
Sorry if this is too vague, I really don't even know what questions I need to ask.
Thanks,
Jackie
If you are going to be working with PDF's for print production, it is imperative that you purchase Enfocus' Pitstop Professional, a plug-in to Acrobat. It will allow you to make the corrections you have described above, as well as numerous other edits to PDF's to obtain satisfactory output results.
If you must use a page layout program to achieve color separations from composite PDF's, you will have more flexibility, as far as import options, using InDesign.
