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: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:40:13 -0600
On Jun 16, 2004, at 7:31 AM, Doug Walker wrote:
Does this statement above imply ANY output to or print to PostScript
process?.... such as a Quark document printed to Postscript?
Adobe apps will do this if you ask for PostScript Color Management.
Otherwise profile information is stripped leaving no ICC profile and no
PostScript CSA is generated in its place.
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.
Not necessarily. There are hoops to jump through either way. But I just
found yesterday I'm unable to get Distiller to produce PDF/X-1a
successfully from QuarkXPress 6.1 PostScript. It was a file containing
a single CMYK TIFF, so it wasn't a particularly complex document. I
could presumably run it through any number of 3rd party utilities,
PDF/X Inspektor, Instant PDF, Pitstop Pro/Server, PDF/X Checkup, etc.
Anyway there are other reasons why exporting PDF directly from an
application has advantages over distilling PostScript. But I use both
methods, it just depends on what I'm doing. Certainly if you want to
make PDF/X-3 with multiple objects having different sources, InDesign
CS is by far the easiest way to do that.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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Co-author "Real World Color Management"
Published by PeachPit Press (ISBN 0-201-77340-6)
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