Re: ICC in PDF
Re: ICC in PDF
- Subject: Re: ICC in PDF
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:36:12 +0200
Tony wrote:
So how do you export Acrobat files from InDesign with simple
"document-default" tags rather than the whole full-blown ICC profile?
'Tags' are profiles. Therefore, if in InDesign 1.5.2 you choose
File > Export > Export PDF > Include ICC Profiles, you get
object-specific embedding just as you have object specific source
profiles and object specific intent settings.
The trouble with my original reply is that it does not reference an
earlier ABC post on getting color managed PDF out of InDesign without
the overload of embedded ICC printer profiles.
The post says to convert ID152 colors and placed images to Lab. Text
can be defined as Lab (L0 a0 b0) which has the nice pro that it is
really deep black on the monitor, or left as ID152 default deviceCMYK
which is gray on the monitor bug isn't color managed by the RIP in
the studio printer when the reader wants to print the pages and read
them in a comfortable chair.
Then in the export dialog, deselect Include ICC Profiles. Because the
color critical objects are Lab, they are self-defining. And whether
the text is Lab for better contrast on the monitor or deviceCMYK for
better contrast on the printer, it doesn't need an ICC production
profile either.
To give you sample differences, if I generate say 40 pages of a PDF
I'm assembling with Include ICC Profiles checked, the file is 81 Mb.
If I untag the ICC printer profiles in InProduction, the file is 4.5
Mb. If I uncheck Include ICC Profiles the file is 2.5 Mb and takes a
fraction of the time to generate -:).
Hope this helps.