Hey all, been a while....
Can X4 natively export to PDF?
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...
If the fonts are included ("embedded") in the PDF file, there is no needed to vectorize the fonts (convert to outilnes = convert to curves). All that you need is included in the PDF. If you have created the PDF from CorelDRAW using "PDF for pre-press" or "PDF X/3", you will not have problems
Anyway, you can also use Pitstop to convert text to curves
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.