Cookbooks: What's cooking?
Cookbooks: What's cooking?
- Subject: Cookbooks: What's cooking?
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 11:33:50 +0200
Updates for the Eye-One Color Cookbook project have been released on
http://www.apple.com/colorsync and
http://www.i1color.com.
The updates were readied in the second quarter and introduce the difference
between raster image workflows (one document, one object, one color space)
and PDF / PostScript workflows (one document, multiple objects, multiple
color spaces). To this end the updates also offer a short introduction to
the color space specifications supported in PDF 1.3 and in PostScript.
At each stage the project can only go as far as the technology itself.
InDesign 1.5 did not support proofing, and for PDF ICCBased hand-off it
embedded the same CMYK profile for each CMYK object in the document, sample
limitations which are lifted in InDesign 2. Photoshop 6 had hard to use
black point compensation controls, a limitation lifted in Photoshop 7. Other
workflow parameters including the Mac OS itself have changed, too.
The next update expands the focus on handing off full page PDF 1.3 documents
for repurposing rather than single raster object documents as in the days
when color was managed at the capture stage. It also looks at the logic of
assigning rendering intents to multi-object and multi-space documents when
repurposing PDF 1.3 using the iQueue interface as example. The sequence of
applications is reversed so that InDesign 2 is covered first, followed by
Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 10 as understanding the full page PDF hand off
application helps decide how to bring in color managed retouching and
illustration content.
The project will continue to back the concept of colorimetrically defined
standard printing conditions, a concept introduced by FOGRA. The reason for
this position is that in the late binding RGB workflows which the ICC
framework allows there is often no concept of which printing company will
run the job, creating a need for a standards-based concept of the gamuts of
common printing conditions and for standards-based profiles at the OS and
application level.
If you have criticism to offer in the coming few weeks, the project would
welcome suggestions on threads you would like to see included and modes of
presentation and document navigation you would like to see improved.
Thanks in advance.
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