RE: PDF problem: Acrobat display

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxx>]

> I am going to go out "on a limb" with this one. My gut feel
> is that during distillation, you have some type of color
> management turned on. With FrameMaker documents, you should
> set your Distiller job options to "Leave color unchanged".
> You want NO conversions to managed color since FrameMaker 
> doesn't really it and your would otherwise need to change
> the rest of your workflow to support it.

Thank you, Dov! This was indeed the problem.
Unfortunately, the Acrobat Distiller pre-defined set of job options
called "ScreenOptimized" has the setting to convert all colors to
RGB turned on. This setting is highly recommended by the Distiller
guide for online viewing purposes, and says that the setting "Leave
color unchanged" may be useful for some print shops... (I don't have
the English text). I can find no information at all that this setting
could be useful or necessary for online viewing purposes, for files
originating from FrameMaker or any other application.

> Acrobat versus Acrobat Reader? Acrobat supports color
> management and looks at that information. Acrobat Reader
> doesn't.

Interesting. Is this documented somewhere?

I still wonder why this problem shows in Acrobat 4.05a on
Windows NT, but not on Windows 2000.
Unfortunately, our existing PDF workflow does *not* call for the
Acrobat Distiller printer to be used when producing the PS file for
distilling. Since the problem *goes away* when using our default
office printer instead, it makes it hard to motivate a change
in the workflow... The fact that the intermediate PS files become
6 times larger when using the Acrobat Distiller printer doesn't
help either :-(

I'd apprciate any further comments, from Dov or anybody else.


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Thomas Michanek, Technical Writer
IAR Systems AB, Sweden: http://www.iar.com
mailto:Thomas.Michanek@iar.se
Tel: +46 18 167800, Fax: +46 18 167838
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