RE: InDesign 2 and Color Management
RE: InDesign 2 and Color Management
- Subject: RE: InDesign 2 and Color Management
- From: Scott Olswold <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:12:02 -0500
Roger,
I've been untangling some of this InD 2 CMS spaghetti myself. Using some
good ol' fashioned testing, I've come up with some of your answers (I
think). My answer starts with the >> character.
So, for example, if I place the PhotoDisc AdobeRGB image in ID2 and set its
RI to Perceptual, does this means that, in the Print Dialog box, under Color
Management, if I select US Web Coated (SWOP) v2 as the Print Space, the
image will convert from AdobeRGB to US Web Coate (SWOP) v2 perceptually and
using the ACE engine (no choice of outside CMM here)?
>
>Correct, based on my testing.
Then, this means that this would be good for an RGB workflow since this
conversion would get me from my images to separations (i.e. my "Production"
profile). Is this the implicit Workflow for output to imagesetter or CTP?
>
>Yes and yes. Printed as PostScript, exported as PDF, or printed directly
from InDesign.
Is the idea begind the Proof Setup button to allow for simulating the
Document space onto some Composite CMYK or Composite RGB space? Meaning that
the Proof Setup was designed with this very purpose in mind, a) to have the
User select the Document CMYK space under Proof Setup, and b) to have the
user specify the Proof Setup as the Source and Print Space being whathever
destop, inkjet or other proofers we want to use for simulation, and c)
that's when you let us choose to "proof" RelCol or AbsCol? Implicit in this
whole workflow is that each image is first transformed from its own Embedded
profile to the Proof Setup (Document CMYK) using whathever RI we chose to
process the image with and then, once all the images are in the "Document"
Space, colors are once more transformed from Proof Setup (being Document
CMYK) to Print Space, RI of our choice through ACE.
>
>That's what I've found.
What about EPS from Illustrator? I know you can't color manage EPS --
nothing can. I know you can (at least you could under 1.5.2) color manage
the Preview (FWIW) but I understand that capability is still not there in
ID2. So, the alternative is what : save out as native Ai9 or Ai10 with an
embedded profile, or save out of Illustrator as PDF agaiin with an embedded
profile? And ID2 then treats vector colors just as Photoshop pixels?
>
>If you import native AI, then it becomes an InDesign object (for all
intents and purposes, anyway--at least that's what I've found) and is
treated like any LBO you created in InDesign. So yes, it can be color
managed that way. Exporting as PDF with color management is also a good
alternative to the EPS format.
And what about PANTONE colors? Are they managed by their CMYK equivalents?
>
>They seem to be. Even with the CMS off, it appears that they're rendered
to SWOP Coated v2 prior to hitting the printer (and thus, the Spot Color
Matching option on my ColorPASS Z5000 is useless).
Scott Olswold
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