Re: Adobe Acrobat versions
Re: Adobe Acrobat versions
- Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat versions
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:00:49 -0500
> I suspect the "trouble" you are referring to relates to
> obtaining accurate color control. If this is the case,
> could you elaborate on the typical problems I could face
> using Word documents as the source. I am familiar with the
> B&W-MS_Word-pdf workflow, having gone through the process
> of publishing books with hundreds of B&W illustrations
> done on a DocuTech, but I am less familiar with the
> Color-MS_Word-pdf type of results.
>
> Danny
> www.BabelColor.com
The biggest trouble I'm aware of, I could be wrong, is the fact that all
objects are considered as RGB color, even black text. So that's a problem
for folks who don't have a PitStop type of PDF Plug-in to accurately convert
the RGB objects to CMYK. And there's also the problem of placed images in
Word. How can those ever be color-managed? I believe if one makes the
assumption that all colors in Word and indeed Office is sRGB then it should
all make sense. But I have not gone further than that, myslef, because I
don't have a requirement to use Word in my work.
Like I said, I gather that Word treats all color as sRGB but doesn't pass
this information on to the print driver at the time of generating the
PostScript on the way to Distiller, if Distiller can be found on the host.
PDF Writer is even more simplistic. In the end, I believe everything ends up
in CalRGB which is close to ColorMatch RGB in terms of specs, last time I
looked at it.
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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