Re: choosing a rendering intent when printing from Acrobat
Re: choosing a rendering intent when printing from Acrobat
- Subject: Re: choosing a rendering intent when printing from Acrobat
- From: Dave Gaudet <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:01:53 -0400
On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 06:48 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
How does one choose a rendering intent when printing
from Adobe Acrobat 5x on Mac OS 9x?
I see that a profile to print to can be chosen in
File> Print> Acrobat 5.0> Advanced> Color Profile>,
but I don't see a way to choose rendering intent.
The good news is that you *can* control the rendering intent. The bad
news is that you have to choose it in the Acrobat Distiller Job Options
(the color management tab) BEFORE you render the postscript to PDF. The
other bad news is that it applies the rendering intent of choice to
*all* of the images and linework (if you choose to "tag everything").
It would be wicked cool if you could pick the rendering intent on a per
image basis...who knows, maybe one of the third parties will come up
with something.
It is my understanding that the File> Print> Color Management>
choice has been disabled by Adobe in Acrobat, and does nothing.
There is not a way to choose rendering intent there either.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "disabled" here. There are
default working space assignments, and you can pick your color engine,
and whether or not to turn on black point compensation. As far as I
know, all of these things are functional, and depending on what you
pick in the File> Print> Acrobat 5.0> Advanced> dialog, the choices in
the color management preferences may override what you "distilled" into
the PDF.
At any rate, one of my biggest beefs with the whole scenario is that --
when using a Mac -- you have to use Photoshop to build a color settings
file (saving your color settings preferences as a .csf file) and then
load that into Acrobat Distiller. Otherwise, for some odd reason, if
you attempt to change the color job options in Distiller, then attempt
to save out the job options, the color settings revert to what they
were before you saved the joboptions. This doesn't seem to happen on
Wintel machines though.
There is definitely much room for improvement within Acrobat, and while
not a substitue for a real quality rip, or color server, if you have a
postscript capable printer, and some patience for the limitations, and
a bit of finessing with the confounded location of all the settings,
Acrobat can function acceptably as a poor man's color server. JMHO
Dave Gaudet
PixelGlow Studios
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