On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 05:35:19PM -0400, Andrew A. Gill wrote: > > > >>> Any hints? > >> > >> Perhaps I have missed it, but what is your intended output? You > >> are using the ISOCoated v2 (ECI) profile for offset printing, but > >> you don't say if you actually intend to print it on an offset > >> press. Do you intend to have this printed by offset? Or do you > >> have a different intended output? > >> > >> The solutions that we give will be dependent on your intended > >> output. > > > > The file will go to an offset print shop[1]. They demand PDF/X3 with > > ISOCoated > > v2 profile which is what I will provide. I fiddled around with gs and > > cinepaint to check CMYK values and it doesn't look good at all (there's > > no black any more in the files converted using tifficc in final PDF/X3 > > output), > > but I suppose this is some other glitch, maybe in gs (8.50) or in > > cinepaint... which tool would allow me to check real CMYK values in PDF > > output? > > You might try outputting in Postscript and checking the colors > that way. > > They've redefined setcmykolor to cmyk, but the color values are > still readable: > > 0 0 0 1 cmyk eofill > > is an example from the output that I got. I also lack your color > profiles, so this might be off for me.
Thanks, I verified that using my testfile and cmyk colors come out as expected. I can't check the images this way, though. Strange: When I run the EPS file through ghostscript[1], my 40/40/40/100 black seems to get converted to 0/0/0/100 black - at least I can only see this kind of black in Cinepaint. :-( Now I'm wondering whether ghostscript is the culprit or cinepaint or whatever is going on here... Thanks, Tino. [1] gsc -dEPSCrop -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiff32nc -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK -sOutputFile=schwarztest-page1.tif -r100 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dTextAlphaBits=4 schwarztest-page1.eps showpage CTRL-D -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir n?hren erbl?ht." www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de
