Re: Color settings for Adobe applications
Re: Color settings for Adobe applications
- Subject: Re: Color settings for Adobe applications
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:49:28 -0700
(Foiled again by the list's reply-to settings; sorry, Steve.)
It should be clarified that each InDesign document can have its own default profile, assigned with the Assign Profile command, and that it is that profile which will operate as the assumed profile for any CMYK image and object when Ignore Linked Profiles is enabled. That may or may not be the same as the CMYK profile that is set in Color Settings.
My take is that Ignore Linked Profiles is the appropriate setting when your intention is that the CMYK values are to be passed to the output device. If Ignore Linked Profiles is disabled, you should expect that CMYK images containing a profile which does not match the document-assigned CMYK profile will be converted to the document-assigned profile, and the black channel will be recalculated (which could be bad for certain images).
There's really no single right answer as to which is appropriate. For my workflows, Ignore Linked Profiles is appropriate, but Gary's workflow may require a different choice. But if the intention is that the CMYK values are to be passed to the press as is, then Ignore Linked Profiles is the way to go.
Rick Gordon
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On 4/17/07 at 11:44 AM -0700, Steve Upton wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Color settings for Adobe applications":
>At 11:19 AM -0700 4/17/07, Printservices, SF wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Sorry, after reading some more, I realize that when soft proofing, the
>>objects in the document are Converted to the specified proofing space
>>before
>>being converted to the monitor space. (not assigned as I previously
>>wrote)
>
>Hi Gary,
>
>Actually this is not always true and in fact, is the/a reason behind the new treatment of CMYK.
>
>If an element is already in CMYK and the intent is to send it out to press with no conversion, then the desire is to have the 'proofing' profile 'assigned' to the image prior to conversion to monitor RGB. The assignment is soft - in memory only and only at the time of conversion.
>
>>The question remains, what is the source for the conversion?
>
>It should be whatever the default CMYK profile is.
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve
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