Hey all, been a while....
Can X4 natively export to PDF?
kumorigoe said:Can X4 natively export to PDF
Yes and there are issues for different work flows. For example power clipped duotones shift to RGB, native color PDF creates a color shift to RGB when output to Onyx and VersaWorks RIPS. Metadimentions has trapping issues with transparency when published from Corel but not from Distiller.
Also, you can't use te imposition and other features of the Print preview for create a PDF using Publish to PDF. If you need it, you must create a Postscript file and convert to PDF using Acrobat Distiller
Hiiii Ariel, Happy to see you in this thread , thank you for your help. I was a bit afraid because this has arrived on 2 of my jobs (different printers) and I thought it could be a catastrophe for me. The plugin EnfocusPitStop is an interresting plugin that I didn't knew. Do you think it can keep the integrity of the colors ? What do you do with?
Olivier Fournier said: Hiiii Ariel, Happy to see you in this thread , thank you for your help. I was a bit afraid because this has arrived on 2 of my jobs (different printers) and I thought it could be a catastrophe for me. The plugin EnfocusPitStop is an interresting plugin that I didn't knew. Do you think it can keep the integrity of the colors ? What do you do with?
Pitstop does not keep the information, is a software for diagnose and editing the PDF files. For example, you can change a CMYK color to Pantone, or a RGB bitmap to CMYK or grayscale, delete portions of the contents, and much more. But Pitstop does not improve the contents, only change something if you decide to change it. Anyway, it's a good program to be able to diagnose errors and to find problems
Ha Ok, Good soft anyway ! I discover something great today, did you know Ariel that it's possible to vectorize the fonts that are included into a PDF file? With Acrobat Pro 8 or 9 only (maybe 7, I don't know), It's possible ! just have to integrate any filigrane (other pdf file) to generate transparency in the background.Once done, it's activate a tool : going in advanced options, print, flatened view, and then check "vectorize all the text". It's a bit complicated (I don't know why Adobe didn't a simpler way for this) but very efficient when you have a customer who hadn't given his fonts.thank you for your advises...
About the problem with your image:
http://www.procreat.com/Colors_washed-out.jpg
the answer is simple: when they placed the PDF into a Quark file (sometimes, most RIP have problems with PDF and it's needed to print the PDF from within other application) and send a Postscript file (or perhaps, create a new PDF using Acrobat Distiller) they have overwritten the color profile values.
Ariel said:the answer is simple: when they placed the PDF into a Quark file (sometimes, most RIP have problems with PDF and it's needed to print the PDF from within other application) and send a Postscript file (or perhaps, create a new PDF using Acrobat Distiller) they have overwritten the color profile values.
is this maybe what is happening with others who have commented on washed out output from PDFs? how exactly would Quark overwrite the parameters in the PDF, especially when the profile is the default CMYK, nothing special. it's either going to be CMYK or RGB. all i can see is that CYMK will provide a general onscreen softproof representing what the RGB>CMYK conversion is going to produce. what this creates is a somewhat desaturated appearance. are you suggesting Quark is applying another CMYK conversion to the already CMYK, resulting in further desaturations?
Hallo,
i have made a test with Quark. I think the pdf setting (1.7 Acrobat 8) is the culprit. I only use PDF-X3 or PDF-X1 settings in Corel.
Ariel : I sometime need to use PDFs that come from customers. I import them in CorelDraw for jobs or other staff.Sometime too, serigraphic printers use the Pdf I send to them to import in there applications, they allways ask me to have vectorized fonts, but sometime I can forget this, so it's good to have solutions as Jeff told . Carlos, I suspected the (1.7 Acrobat 8) CorelDraw savings to make troubles with Xpress, that could confirm my suspicion...
Just To had an other bad experience with PDF filter exporting : I just saw that some little ojects was well interpreted in the old compatibility : Acrobat 8 and are very bad interpreted in the PDF/X-3 filter export (aleasing)
in PDF/X-3 or PDF PDF/X-1a it is normal. What can you do?
See the attachment - you can manipulate the DPI.