Re: Re(6): embedded profiles in PDF/Postscript
Re: Re(6): embedded profiles in PDF/Postscript
- Subject: Re: Re(6): embedded profiles in PDF/Postscript
- From: Doug Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:31:08 -0700
On Sunday, June 6, 2004, at 04:08 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
ICC profiles do not exist in a PostScript stream. They get converted
to PostScript CSA's.
Chris,
I am re-reading the archives and have a followup question.
Does this statement above imply ANY output to or print to PostScript
process?.... such as a Quark document printed to Postscript?
If you want something like this, the solution is to tag everything or
tag only images. Any CSA's get converted to ICC profiles and tag those
objects. At print time, you select the destination profile and at that
time content is converted to CMYK. InDesign's PDF export will also do
what you are asking, and it's easier there just because there is no
distillation process. Everything stays PDF, in an InDesign PDF export,
there is no PostScript.
So in using InDesign it appears one can print straight to PDF, which
apparently is a shorter distance to PDF and more streamlined over a
Quark process where one prints to Postscript, and then would be
required to use Adobe Acrobat to distill further to PDF.
Would it follow that the latter has more risk and CM hoops to jump
through opening up many more ways to make mistakes.
Is this reasonably correct?
Doug Walker, FP
"Specializing in Corporate People in their Workplaces in a Clean, Bold
Classic Style!"
website:
http://www.walkerphoto.com
Phone (360) 943-1293
Member, ASMP, APA SF
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