Re: Magicolor 7300 - soft shadows
Re: Magicolor 7300 - soft shadows
- Subject: Re: Magicolor 7300 - soft shadows
- From: daniel westcott <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:19:23 -0500
Hi Med,
This isn't really a color-sync issue so you would probably receive more
response posting to a pre-press or InDesign list for something like this. It
sounds like you are experiencing the flattening of transparency in Indesign.
Adobe could have made this much easier by supporting transparency in
composite postscript level 3 but they didn't. To make up for it, (TIC) they
add transparency support to all of their programs and, voila, output
problems. This one is quite common. The way adobe has done this is not
really intuitive, there is no warning, and, consequently, it bites many.
There are other ways to accomplish the effect you are wanting that give,
IMHO, better results, but here is the easy fix:
Under the Edit menu in InDesign, there is a preference for flattening color
space called "Transparency blend space". In order to flatten transparency
over a cmyk background you need to set that to cmyk (default is RGB). In
this case, you will want to use a CMYK Image. Otherwise it converts the area
under the image (always a rectangle) to RGB. Turn on flattener preview and
you will be able to witness the atrocity onscreen :)
Regards,
Daniel Westcott
"Morten Spindler Jespersen" wrote:
> place a .psd-file with soft masks
> on a cmyk-colored background in InDesign...
> Under the pictures/elements with soft shadows i get a box with a
> slight difference in the background color. Very ugly.
> If anyone has solved this problem before me, please let me know...
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