Re: Spot Color PDF from FrameMaker under Windows ...

[ezra <ezra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, Dov, does the UNIX model suffer from the same RGB-only problem that
the Window's model suffers from?

And what's different about the Mac OS model that works differently and
allows spot colors to be generated?

Ezra


Dov Isaacs wrote:
> 
> Simply stated, you CANNOT create a composite CMYK PDF file
> or a PDF file with spot colors directly from the Windows version
> of FrameMaker. Why? It outputs via GDI in a manner similar to
> standard Windows applications in a totally RGB world. You can
> "fix" the RGB to CMYK problem somewhat in Acrobat via use
> of Quite Software's Quite a Box of Tricks plugin (or other
> plugins that may be available to perform similar miracles),
> but there is no way to retrieve spot colors. The only way
> to get spot colors out of FrameMaker Windows is to create
> separations from FrameMaker directly. But that provides
> preseparated PostScript (ironically with RGB instead of
> grayscale, again due to the Windows imaging model), not
> PDF.
> 
>          - Dov

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