Re: InDesign color Management
Re: InDesign color Management
- Subject: Re: InDesign color Management
- From: Glenn Kowalski <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:35:01 -0500
On Nov 24, 2003, at 2:28 PM, Glenn Kowalski wrote:
Previously on this list, I asked about InDesign's ability to color
manage imported vector eps files. There was one person who
responded and said that if the imports are native Illustrator
files, they will be color managed. Can anyone verify/clarify this
and, does it this include on-screen display and printing?
Then Chris Murphy wrote:
Vector and bitmap EPS and AI and PDF are color managed. The problem
is with respect to what rendering intent gets used. The rendering
intent is hard coded, and cannot bit changed. For bitmap it's
Perceptual, and for vector it's RelCol. So if you were to want a
match between bitmap content and nearby vector content, you're SOL
(at least in an easy way).
Thanks Chris. Still, even without rendering intent, it's good news
for designers on a budget (read--can't afford a good RIP).
And this leads to a related question. If the designer can live
without a decent color managed RIP, can they live without a RIP
altogether? One of our techs did a test recently where he just
created postscript files from Quark and printed them right to an RGB
printer using a Panther desktop printer. He was actually trying to
get bad results, and included Illustrator eps files, etc. But he says
Mac OS X seemed to be working as a RIP and rasterizing the files just
fine. I have yet to confirm any of this.
--
Glenn Kowalski
Macintosh Systems Consultant
MacLab; a Division of Studio 405, Inc.
http://www.studio405.com
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