RE: About InDesign's "Save as PDF" color management settings
RE: About InDesign's "Save as PDF" color management settings
- Subject: RE: About InDesign's "Save as PDF" color management settings
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:28:34 -0800
I think that the InDesign team's Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles) option, which makes no sense for single-image output such as Photoshop, is an extremely useful option for a layout program. There is the need to be able to target output for a specific output condition, while not converting any CMYK in the process, where there may be CMYK elements that were separated via different profiles.
Don't Include Profiles means that the resulting PDF will assign (for viewing at least) the default CMYK profile for the active copy of Acrobat. Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles) means "I want you to view and manage all CMYK as Profile XXX, irrespective of what the original image was tagged as."
Depending on the printer's workflow, it might not make any difference in the final output (compared to Don't Include Profiles), but it has the potential to override the default assignment that would happen in the face of no profile or output intent being included.
Rick Gordon
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On 1/28/09 at 4:46 PM -0600, Richard Apollo wrote in a message entitled
"Re: About InDesign's "Save as PDF" color management setting":
>You're absolutely correct, Marco. This is a topic that comes up routinely in other forums.
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>I believe the best way to construct the Color Management dialogs in each of the applications is to model them after Photoshop's. Photoshop has the level of control necessary with an understandable interface.
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>As to the inclusion of profiles, would it be enough to "Include all Profiles" which would tag untagged elements with the defaults for those color modes, or "Don't Include Profiles" which would not tag anything? The conversions, or lack thereof, would be handled separately from profile inclusion/exclusion. I'd like to see the assumed source profiles listed in the export/print dialogs as a fail safe.
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>"Preserve CMYK Numbers" is very confusing.
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