RE: Screen capture, display properties, CMYK printing

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

When you output to PDF from FrameMaker, you always are going through
a driver, so the same restrictions apply (of course, as previously
mentioned, EPS goes around the driver, and thus any CMYK in EPS
gets through unscathed).

Infer nothing about product merges and neither of us will be
disappointed.

        - Dov


At 2/14/2002 02:56 PM, Michael Lewis wrote:
>Dov,
>
>Thanks!
>
>> 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!"
>
>Got it in one.
>
>> 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.
>
>That too is not such great news.
>
>> 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.
>
>But not FM... Although Acrobat does the right thing (or rather, stops
>Windows from doing the wrong thing), it seems that I can't output to PDF
>then us the PDF to generate the seps. Or does "Acrobat" include Distiller?
>(I interpreted your earlier "NO PRINTER DRIVER" to include the Distiller
>"printer".)
>
>Incidentally, now that InDesign includes a book feature, might one infer
>that the two products will merge one day?
>
>> PS: I know, you didn't want this answer either!?!? (8^)>
>
>I guess the truth (or should that be The Truth) has a value all its own...
>
>Thanks again!
>
>- Michael


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