4C vs. Spot PDFs
- Started
- Last post
- 8 Responses
- Buckyball2
We sent a newspaper a hires PDF of a Quark layout. The layout contained among other things, 2 logos with Pantone colors in them. Before making into a PDF, we unclicked all spot color boxes for each PMS color in the Quark colors menu.
When the paper received the doc they complained that the PDF was still showing Pantone colors and it is supposed to be a 4C job.
Is just unclicking spot colors in Quark adequate before going to PDF to get rid of all Pantone references?
Or should 4C versions of those logos be placed into the layout to begin with to avoid Pantones showing up on the paper's end?
thanks,
bB
- unknown0
didn't you specify cmyk in the drop down when you edit colours?
- ********0
make a seperation PDF yourself to find out....
if you get 4 plates it's gone if there are more it's not....
simple test.
- Buckyball20
Ya rask, we did. Changed the color model from Pantone to CMYK and unclicked spot colors. Still told that Pantones were present.
My real question would be whether the paper's production program was just detecting the "ghost" of a PMS color or were they actually there.
I will give that a try MX. Would you do that out of Acrobat? Sorry. Never done anything like that before.
thanks,
bB
- unknown0
probably, have they actually ran seps or have they just noticed a colour named 'pantone xxx'
- Buckyball20
That was my guess. They just noticed a color name PMS XXX.
Just to be safe, we conv. the logos to 4C in Illus. and reimported them into the layout.
But for the future, we were wondering if this was a waste of our time because Hack Paper Weekly was freaked out by them showing up in the PDF.
thanks,
bB
- ********0
you shouild be able to set your print options to seperations and create a PS file.....
then all you need to do is distill it with your Distiller and it'll spit out a 4 page PDF if there are no spot colours if there are spot colours it'll give you an extra plate for each one....
(was at Adobe before MM ;-)
OnD
- arejay0
The only right way do it is
to convert the imported
logo's because those are
the source files. to my knowledge
you can only uncheck spotcolours that are made in quark.Good luck,
arejay
- ********0
theres a program called flightcheck from markzware.
ver handy it gives you a view on the colours used, the fonts, the res. of images used and their colourmode. theres a simple button to click to gather all data and put it into one folder.
its avalable for macOS X aswellhttp://www.markzware.com/main/
maybe this is old news for you but for who doesnt its a fkn handy app.