The ABC of color managed Web PDF 1.3 from InDesign
The ABC of color managed Web PDF 1.3 from InDesign
- Subject: The ABC of color managed Web PDF 1.3 from InDesign
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 15:34:57 +0200
I like InDesign, the way I like type, and PDF, too. I'm less prone to
liking the InDesign manual -:).
Like QXP411, you're in a bit of hot water when it comes to exporting
color managed three channel raster and vector objects in PDF for the
Web.
If you do as the manual says (page 329), you export as 'RGB' which if
I remember rightly is deviceRGB. This option grays out 'Include ICC
Profiles' and is available while InDesign has its CMS active.
If you click 'Include ICC Profiles' with the InDesign CMS enabled,
then your PDF swells from 1.5 Mb to 35 Mb.
If you define ALL objects as Lab, including the K100% otherwise used
for the default type color, and then disable the InDesign CMS, the
checkbox 'Include ICC Profiles' grays out in the PDF Export windows.
But because Lab is CIE color already, and because PSL2, PSL3, PDF 1.2
and PDF 1.3 all support Lab directly, you get beautiful and slim 1.5
Mb color managed PDF 1.3.
Because QXP411 doesn't support Lab (at least as far as I know, maybe
I should recheck with the latest QXP PDF filter), you can't color
managed PDF in XPress but have to rely on Distiller for retagging all
your raster and vector objects.
(And I swear I only figured it out this morning, it has nothing to do
with the Lab / RGB working space thread -:)).
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