My rule of thumb for color mappings, if you have to do it more than once then it belongs in a remap color action. Why do the work twice?

Quote from: Ear on August 03, 2017, 11:48:34 AMFor black text builds, you can go to Global Change. Change Specific Color. Grab fill. Change to whatever you want. Run per page or complete document. I use it all the time and it is very fast and effective. The tabloids send in shit with dozens of RGB builds in the text and odd intents. Global change is often faster and more dynamic than setting up an action.

Yes, global change is often easier and faster for one offs. If you consistently run into these problems though an action list as part of a preflight profile in the end becomes easier and faster and more flexible.

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Quote from: mattbeals on August 03, 2017, 11:12:17 AMUse a device link profile with ink reduction and GCR. Why would you want to change overprints, wasn't the art designed with the overprints in place?

From what I'm seeing in their PDFs the Illustrator Overprints are causing the ink limit to be over 300%. I don't visually see a difference with the two overprint modes on their files.

I'm not sure I have a GCR device link profile. At least we don't in XMF, otherwise I would do so. Is there a default GCR in acrobat/pitstop 12?

Thanks!

Not in PitStop 12, but yes in PitStop 17 where Enfocus has included device links with ink reduction. Not sure how much GCR is in them, but they appear to be very high quality links that you would find useful.

Quote from: Ear on August 03, 2017, 11:18:21 AMI am seeing a lot of overprint all of a sudden too. You can change prefs and uncheck "overprint black".

No, it is not okay, prepping for offset presses and was not designed that way. I am seeing 100% black fills with parts of picture showing through and text that doesn't want to KO/trap because of these settings. And I know the designer intends the black to KO or crop a picture, and not show through. Good thing I have PitStop.

Changing black overprints as you specify is different than the question asked. Your circumstance I understand why you would want to and need to remove specific overprint parameters.

JPEG high is reasonable for most applications, for graphic arts not so much. But PDF is so much bigger than printing. Easier/faster/smaller transmission and storage of data where JPEG artifacts are either not noticed or immaterial. In my days we changed all non-zip compressed objects to zip compressed. When we sent out documents we zip compressed everything. But that was our choice. The efficiency that JPEG high offers vs. 8-bit zip can be substantial.

I have iCloud setup on my Mac's and my Mac's are part of the active directory AND I log into my Mac's with my active directory credentials. That's how you get the permissions fixed, log into your Mac with your AD credentials. You can deal with the pain of migrating over to the new user account or you can deal with the pain of permissions problems. It's pain either way...

Use a device link profile with ink reduction and GCR. Why would you want to change overprints, wasn't the art designed with the overprints in place?

/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Directory\ Utility.app will tell you if you are bound to AD.

Also Users & Groups preferences under "Login Options" under "Network Account Server".

Bind your Mac's to the active directory and sign into your mac's with domain user accounts.

You have a conflict of local Mac accounts, domain share permissions. Signing into the Mac as the domain user eliminates the problem.

Save the text as an RTF and export all of the images from the PDF. Be sure your preferences are setup correctly for this before you do it.

You may have to send screened 1-bit TIFF's. I don't know that the end users RIP will process the CT/LW wrapped in a PDF. We would need to know what RIP's are being used on the sender and recipients side to have a better answer.

They're rasters, all you can do is wrap them in a PDF. You aren't going to extract anything "editable".

2  is the only practical solution.

Why flatten it anywhere?
Change the blending space from RGB to device cmyk or device gray. Gray would be the appropriate space.

Quote from: Joe on July 12, 2017, 08:09:59 PMThe PDF's are showing up as 4 color black just by placing them into InDesign. And his PDF's do the same for me. But PDF's I have here aren't doing it. Doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm still blaming it on the grayscale PDF's coming out of Word 2013.

They're device gray. There's a conversion going on somewhere that shouldn't be occurring.