A couple of other thoughts.
I downloaded a trial copy of Pagemaker 7 so I could
check out a copy of things.
1. The Distiller PPD for Acrobat 5 appears to be
installed in the RSRC folder by default (hooray!!!).
2. Goofy PM, however, doesn't allow one to print a
composite gray. The program's idea of printing colors as black is to take text
and objects created in PM and print them as black. The program doesn't know how
to take a bitmap image (photo) and print it in grayscale.
3. That said, the instructions I provided you earlier
will give you a CMYK PDF file which can...
...either be converted to grayscale in Pitstop, or
printed as a composite grayscale if your PS rip allows that
choice.
4. I would not use PM 6.52 at this point. I would
either upgrade to v 7.x, or try InDesign which is supposed to open PM docs.
InDesign does allow for the printing of a composite grayscale PDF (I tried
it...it works).
If the skies are gray, you're probably as tired as I am
about talking about grayscale.
Have a nice day.
Rich
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathy Tadlock
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PDF] More on RGB photos
Hmmm.
I did use the Adobe Distiller print driver (5.05) and the Distiller PPD(version
2017.801) to create the PDF I sent you. I'm sure the PPD was in the right
location. I created the postscript first, then processed it through Distiller. I
did have to process each page separately in order to make the PDF, then I
inserted the pages together into the single file I passed on to you. Maybe
that's why it appeared to be redistilled?
I did
select "Print colors to black" on the Pagemaker print window and I
also set the Distiller print driver to black and white as the default setting
before making the file. Neither one was overriding the RGB photo information
when the PDF went through the imagesetter RIP. The person also used Microsoft
Photo Editor to work with the photos and we think that might have caused
problems too. We did make a composite grayscale film but some of the images
started picking up slight background shading when the composite was
made.
The
Pagemaker file itself was huge - about 16 MB and clued me in I was going to have
problems right away. The Postscript file was coming out at 62 MB so I
thought the 15 MB PDF looked good. We didn't have time to stop and rebuild the
file that way it should have been done and change all the photos to grayscale
and re-insert them. The person creating the file uses Pagemaker three times a
year just to create this file so I'm sure there were many other problems with
the file. We were in crisis mode and just trying to get something that would
print.
The
two suggestions were:
Create
an action in Pitstop to change images to grayscale.
Create
a Job Options profile for Pagemaker in Distiller that uses the Press
setting with all DSC comments turned off.
I've
created a file using both methods and am waiting for the pre-press area to check
the files.
Thanks
very much to both Dov and Rich for taking the time to look at the file. I
appreciate the time and the suggestions.
And yes - Bellingham is beautiful for
about 7 months of the year but right now we're in the gray, soggy
season that drives people mad. I long for sun - we might get lucky
today.
Kathy Tadlock
Support Services,
Publishing Services
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225-9058
Phone
(360)650-3545
Fax (360)650-7436
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