Re: losing colour in Acrobat

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Most likely, the problem is related to use of the WRONG driver
with FrameMaker and the Distiller. A Windows'9X bug aggrevated
by the PSCRIPT driver (the PostScript driver that comes with 
Windows'95/98) and the AdobePS 4.1.x driver (from Adobe for use
only with imaging devices [and the Distiller] using Adobe PostScript
software, not clones) causes certain color image objects to have 
monochrome PostScript generated IFF the default printer is a
monochrome printer. Based upon my originally finding this problem
and analyzing it, Adobe made some changes in the AdobePS 4.2.X drivers
that gets around the problem. In other words, if the PPD calls for
color, you get it regardless of whether the default printer is color.

I would be dramatically surprised if installation of AdobePS 4.2.4 
didn't fix this problem.

	- Dov


At 10/20/98 08:45 AM , Thomas Regner wrote:
>Mark,
>
>It's been a year or so since I used FrameMaker on a Win95
>system with Acrobat, but trying various things, I found that
>converting the files to .bmp (as opposed to .tif) in Photoshop
>cured by color-dropping problem.  I can only speculate that
>this was because the .bmp picture format is more "Microsoft-
>friendly" (as the "native" format, so to speak).
>
>Try it and let me know how it turns out.
>
>Best,
>
>-- Tom `
>
>
>mark barratt wrote:
>
>> I have a problem with Acrobat files - process colour disappears.
>>
>> Using Distiller 3.0 and the Distiller ppd, I'm printing from Win95 (FM+SGML
>> 5.5).
>>
>> Frame-applied colour, and eps (Illustrator) colour files are rendering as
>> expected, but I also have high-res cmyk TIFFs, which turn monochrome
>> somewhere in the process.
>>
>> The same Frame files produce good separations when printed direct to the
>> real printer...
>
>
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