MS Word color help needed
MS Word color help needed
- Subject: MS Word color help needed
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:04:06 +0100 (MET)
We have a few customers that insist on using MS Word for their layouts
(sigh!). I've been working on some of their files for quite some time trying
to figure out how the 'color' works. I'm hoping someone here can help me
solve some mysteries. Here are my questions:
1. Is it true that one cannot place Lab space TIF images into MS
Word/Office?
2. I've noticed that when greyscales TIF images are placed into MS Word,
they print as 4-color black instead of K only. Anyone know why or how to fix
this? I know that EPS greyscales print correctly as K only.
3. Any job I print from PowerPoint that has TIF images (RGB, CMYK, Lab or
Greyscale) prints out as 4-color greyscales. Is this normal behavior for Power
Point? EPS versions of the files print correctly.
4. When gradients are made with the color "black" to white from the default
color palette, I notice that when I do this on Windows it prints as a
4-color grey gradient, while on the Mac I always get K only? why is this?
5. When the default "Blue" color is used from the default color palette, it
also prints differently between Mac and Windows. (the same thing occurs with
the color "Red" also.)
6. Finally, When the colors "Blue" and "Red" are printed as PS files
(either on Mac9 or Win98), I see that there is also a difference between
these colors and those from a PDF version of the same PS file (made, of course,
with no color management/conversion in Distiller4 on Mac or Win). I have seen
this happen with CMYK defined TIF bitmap colors when printing from Quark
XPress PS and PDF files. I thought PDF would preserve them????
thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Miro
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