What settings should be used to output good pdfs w/o color shifts

Lumpy · February 23, 2011, 09:12:09 AM

Hey everyone,

When outputting a pdf from Quack using the Press Quality settings there is a color shift issue.
The color setting was set as Composite CMYK.
The designer placed an Il eps which is 100% black and Quack changes the formula to C-73, M-72, M-69, K-55 ?
I changed the color setting to As is and that worked.
Whats up with that?

ninjaPB_43 · February 23, 2011, 09:13:27 AM

Quack lives in it's own world?

Farabomb · February 23, 2011, 09:25:10 AM

Lumpy · February 23, 2011, 09:27:44 AM

I hear ya.

Chilbear · February 23, 2011, 09:47:26 AM

Just for giggles, try exporting PS from Q and use Acrobat to generate the PDF. When I used Q I NEVER made the PDF from Q but that was V6.5.

mwc · February 23, 2011, 10:00:51 AM

Somewhere in Quark Prefs there was Color Management option that you had to turn OFF so Q stopped messing with your color.
Don't remember where, and I don't even have Q installed anymore on my machine.
Maybe that's it?

gnubler · February 23, 2011, 10:02:21 AM

Guys, can you give q the respect it deserves and drop the caps? Thanks.

Farabomb · February 23, 2011, 10:06:52 AM

Think this is what mwc is talking about. See if you have that checked.

Lumpy · February 23, 2011, 11:04:41 AM

So the Il file that was placed was 100% black, but the swatch that was used was the CMYK black. You know C-0, M-0, Y-0, K-100.
I changed it to a Grayscale color mode black in Il. That worked.
Interesting.

Lumpy · February 24, 2011, 06:53:37 AM

Quote from: Farabomb on February 23, 2011, 10:06:52 AMThink this is what mwc is talking about. See if you have that checked.

Het Farabomb,
I don't see anything like that. I got this?

Farabomb · February 24, 2011, 08:36:59 AM

That was from Quack 6.5. Guess you're using 7. My settings are the same with the execption of instead of automatic mine is set to Kodak. It is strange that quark doesn't play well EPS. I was under the impression that's the only format that works correctly. Maybe the illy EPS was from a newer version and adobe screwed with the encoding?

Stiv · February 24, 2011, 08:39:22 AM

I use these settings as a base for my export to PDF. Have a look @ http://www.gwg.org/applicationsettings.phtml

Lumpy · February 24, 2011, 05:18:40 PM

Quote from: Farabomb on February 24, 2011, 08:36:59 AMThat was from Quack 6.5. Guess you're using 7. My settings are the same with the execption of instead of automatic mine is set to Kodak. It is strange that quark doesn't play well EPS. I was under the impression that's the only format that works correctly. Maybe the illy EPS was from a newer version and adobe screwed with the encoding?

I'm sorry, yeah we use Quack 8 and CS5.

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What settings should be used to output good pdfs w/o color shifts