RE: Screen capture, display properties, CMYK printing

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry that this isn't the answer you wanted, although I suspect that
you really meant to say "that's not the answer I wanted to hear!"

In the case of FrameMaker, if you request separations, you actually
get each of C, M, Y, K, and spot colors as pseudo-monochrome output
in guess what .... RGB!!!!! More specifically, it is R=G=B PostScript
which still could cause problems with some prepress workflows.

Some applications, by the way, finesse this whole problem by generating
all their own PostScript. Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
(as well as Quark XPress, Freehand, and CorelDRAW) all generate their
own PostScript using CMYK, RGB, or grayscale as appropriate, passing
through directly to the driver by "escaping" GDI.

        - Dov

PS: I know, you didn't want this answer either!?!? (8^)>


At 2/14/2002 02:32 PM, Michael Lewis wrote:
>Dov,
>
>That's not the answer I wanted!
>
>So, regardless of the application, any CMYK output under Windows has to be
>fudged in some way? Presumably, if the application does the colour
>separation, it can output each "layer" as monochrome -- it's only the
>composites that screw up?
>
>- Michael
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bounce-framers-31989@lists.raycomm.com
>> [mailto:bounce-framers-31989@lists.raycomm.com]On Behalf Of Dov Isaacs
>> Sent: Friday, 15 February 2002 08:21
>> To: Framers List
>> Subject: RE: Screen capture, display properties, CMYK printing
>>
>>
>> Michael,
>>
>> Absolutely WRONG! Although FrameMaker internally preserves any
>> CMYK color information within the document format, the Windows GDI
>> interface with both the application program and the display and
>> printer drivers is strictly RGB. There is NO driver for ANY printer
>> under Windows that can accept CMYK data.
>>
>> Sorry!


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