Re: PDF/X-1a Output Identifier
Re: PDF/X-1a Output Identifier
- Subject: Re: PDF/X-1a Output Identifier
- From: Olaf Drümmer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:10:43 +0200
By it's very nature a test chart (to be used for profiling an output
device) cannot be a PDF/X file. PDF/X files contain color that is
characterized. A test chart is uncharacterized.
Olaf Druemmer
email@hidden wrote Fri, 26 May 2006 17:54:49 -0700:
>I am generating test charts to profile at a new printer, and want to
>exactly duplicate my final output procedure in terms of generating the
>test: InDesign CS2 to PDF/X-1a. And I will be profiling the target
>prints output as wet proofs onto the final press output paper (a
>procedure I've found satisfactory in the past).
>
>I figure for the final output, using files separated via the not-yet-
>made profile, I will use the profile name as the output identifier
>(although actually individual images may be separated via profiles with
>different GCR, derived from the results of the test target print).
>
>But if I want to send a PDF/X-1a document containing the target pages,
>which will have no embedded profile or predetermined output intent, what
>should I do about the output intent identifier?
>
>What difference -- other than perhaps a reality check -- does the output
>intent actually have on the final output?
>--
>
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