re: MS Word color help needed
re: MS Word color help needed
- Subject: re: MS Word color help needed
- From: Dan Reid <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:23:21 -0700
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:04:06 +0100 (MET), email@hidden wrote:
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We have a few customers that insist on using MS Word for their layouts
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(sigh!). I've been working on some of their files for quite some time trying
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to figure out how the 'color' works. I'm hoping someone here can help me
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solve some mysteries. Here are my questions:
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1. Is it true that one cannot place Lab space TIF images into MS
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Word/Office?
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2. I've noticed that when greyscales TIF images are placed into MS Word,
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they print as 4-color black instead of K only. Anyone know why or how to fix
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this? I know that EPS greyscales print correctly as K only.
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3. Any job I print from PowerPoint that has TIF images (RGB, CMYK, Lab or
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Greyscale) prints out as 4-color greyscales. Is this normal behavior for Power
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Point? EPS versions of the files print correctly.
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4. When gradients are made with the color "black" to white from the default
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color palette, I notice that when I do this on Windows it prints as a
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4-color grey gradient, while on the Mac I always get K only? why is this?
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5. When the default "Blue" color is used from the default color palette, it
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also prints differently between Mac and Windows. (the same thing occurs with
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the color "Red" also.)
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6. Finally, When the colors "Blue" and "Red" are printed as PS files
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(either on Mac9 or Win98), I see that there is also a difference between
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these colors and those from a PDF version of the same PS file (made, of
course,
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with no color management/conversion in Distiller4 on Mac or Win). I have seen
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this happen with CMYK defined TIF bitmap colors when printing from Quark
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XPress PS and PDF files. I thought PDF would preserve them????
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thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Miro
Though this is an Apple list I have gotten MS 2000 Powerpoint on Win 2K to
properly read embedded profiles but only in JPG and not TIF. I had a
customer who was printing PowerPoint prezo with JPG objects to Fujix PG3500.
I actually got it to work under Win2K. But then again that's why I get paid
the big bucks!
No experience on PowerPoint or Word on the Mac. I try not to go there if you
know what I mean. Color Manage upstream and save out EPS files to import in
Word/PowerPoint.
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Dan B. Reid
RENAISSANCE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGING
Color Imaging Solutions Provider
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