choosing a rendering intent when printing from Acrobat
choosing a rendering intent when printing from Acrobat
- Subject: choosing a rendering intent when printing from Acrobat
- From: "Vanderlinden, Thomas M." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:28:56 -0400
good morning - - -
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.
At Edit> Preferences> General> Color Management,
One can choose default profiles and preferred CMM at
but again, nothing about rendering intent.
(There is a check box for Use Black Point Compensation,
so I must be getting close..)
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.
[Which raises the question, what controls rendering intent selection
in the OS-level rgb workflow, but for now, I don't care]
How is Acrobat "deciding" what intent to use,
when it produces PostScript, and how can I control that?
Good profiles may not take me very far if I can not control the intent.
Possible behaviors that come to mind:
1) Hard coded into Acrobat, always uses that intent.
(This is what I fear. The i-1 soft proofing cookbook (page 66)
seems to imply this as well, though it is discussing soft proofing:
"Note: Acrobat 5 is limited to Relative
Colorimetric conversion for Step 1 and
shadows are clipped, if you deselect the
Black Point Compensation checkbox." )
2) From the profile(s) that are embedded in the pdf.
Perhaps Acrobat looks at the default rendering intent
in the profiles.
3) A friendly little dialog box I have not noticed.
(Too good to be true)
The first step in exercising some control
over what rendering intent is used
when pdfs are printed, it seems to me,
is understanding what Acrobat does at print time.
Can someone fill me in to what's happening?
Adobe Acrobat 5x on Mac OS 9x,
assuming host-based color management.
- - - Tom Vanderlinden
printing for preservation
Bridgeport National Bindery
email@hidden
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