Re: Quark and CMS
Re: Quark and CMS
- Subject: Re: Quark and CMS
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:27:05 -0600
Pete Carter <email@hidden> writes:
>
Using Quark 4.1...Is it better to disable CMS in Quark and apply all the
>
profiling in Photoshop first?
Yes. Or do it at the backend; either Compass Pro XT, ICC Autoflow,
iQueue, etc.
>
There are so
>
many different opinions on Quark's cms abilities.
I'm basically saying that there are so many problems with it, that it's
better to just not deal with it. If you're really really brave, you could
figure out a way to use QuarkXpress 4 CMS, but it's got a huge number of
problems:
1. It doesn't recognize embedded profiles. It says it sees them, it says
it's using them, but it's not. It uses Default Source Profile instead.
2. The correction checkbox will give you different behavior depending on
whether it's an RGB image or CMYK image. If it's RGB, unchecking it will
cause it to not be previewed on-screen as it will appear in print, but it
will still be color managed at output time. For CMYK it's the reverse -
on-screen version remains the same, but it will not be repurposed for
output.
3. If the CMYK Default Source Profile is changed after an image is
placed, the previously selected profile still applies to already placed
images.
4. Supposedly TIFF, JPEG and PICT are supported for color management.
Only TIFF is compensated for on-screen. The results I get in output with
JPEG vary anywhere from 2% to 20%.
5. Composite simulates separation device checkbox in print dialog does
not work.
6. No rendering intent controls.
There's more but that's the bulk of the problems. I would simply avoid
it. Every time I start doing experiments with QuarkXPress 4 color
managment, either I find a new bug, or a previous bug that I'd reproduce
10 or more times can no longer be reproduced or does something different.
So in the interest of time and sanity I've just given up on it.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (tm)
Boulder, CO
303-415-9932
_______________________________________________
colorsync-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/colorsync-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.