Publisher 2002 and PDF (color management)

[PRINT&MAILguy]

I have a newsletter designed in Publisher 2002 in RGB (a Publisher
newsletter template). In order for printing, I had to convert the
document to CMYK and then to a .pdf. After .pdf coversion, the
document was once again RGB. I know my .pdf settings are correct and
believe this might be a publisher problem. Then again, I could be
wrong... Would appreciate any insight. THANKS

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

To produce a CMYK PDF you will need QABOT (Quite a Box of Tricks) or Enfocus
Pitstop.

Most printers have either of those software tools.

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[JL Amerson]

Print your publisher file to the Acrobat Distiller. Then open the resulting
file in Acrobat. File|Print, change to Distiller again and select the
Advance button in the lower left corner. Change the Color Profile to
Photoshop 4 or 5 CMYK. Select OK and OK. That should do it. No additional
software needed.

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

To my knowledge and the Adobe website, no version of Acrobat/Distiller does
RGB to CMYK conversion.

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[JL Amerson]

Well, as much as I hate to do this...........Sorry, your information is
lacking. It can be done (I did it). But the documention on that capability
is sorly lacking.

I had to print to the Distiller, then open the resulting .pdf file in
Acrobat. I printed to the Distiller againa dnwas able to change the setting
to create a Photoshop 4 or 5 CMYK output.

Believe me, I was sweating bullets until I figured out how to do this. I had
a deadline for a magasine submission and I had to make sense from the
multitude of Help files and personal collections of help books. It worked
and the ad was beautiful!

 

[Mike Koewler]

I'll second that it works. Color conversion is decent, though some out
of gamut RGB colors look completely different, but fairly close to what
QBOT produces.

Mike

Well, as much as I hate to do this...........Sorry, your information is
lacking. It can be done (I did it). But the documention on that capability
is sorly lacking.

I had to print to the Distiller, then open the resulting .pdf file in
Acrobat. I printed to the Distiller againa dnwas able to change the setting
to create a Photoshop 4 or 5 CMYK output.

Believe me, I was sweating bullets until I figured out how to do this. I had
a deadline for a magasine submission and I had to make sense from the
multitude of Help files and personal collections of help books. It worked
and the ad was beautiful!