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Title: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: RedEmma on November 24, 2008, 06:24:25 PM
I never had this problem with Quark 6.5.... I am getting color shifts with EPS files placed in Quark 7.4. Rather than place a PDF in Quark, I am using Acrobat 7 to create an EPS file.

I place this in Quark and PostScript/Distill as usual. With Q7 however, the color is changing. Am I missing something when I print to PS?

My dead-simple workflow "workaround" to Quark's PDF quirks is useless now. Help Anyone?  TIA
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: frailer on November 24, 2008, 07:29:43 PM
I may be on the wrong track here, (and more experienced Cavalry will arrive), but maybe check your Prefs/Color management area. Sorry, am at home, and can't open it to have a look.
Q7 uses a different PMS conversion engine to Q6. You can re-set it to "legacy", (I think it's termed)...something to that effect. Relaunch and see what gives.

Or it may be something else entirely.   :undecided:

General Custer and troops will be here "real soon now"... :cheesy:
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Joe on November 24, 2008, 08:08:33 PM
Quote from: frailer on November 24, 2008, 07:29:43 PMI may be on the wrong track here, (and more experienced Cavalry will arrive), but maybe check your Prefs/Color management area. Sorry, am at home, and can't open it to have a look.
Q7 uses a different PMS conversion engine to Q6. You can re-set it to "legacy", (I think it's termed)...something to that effect. Relaunch and see what gives.

Or it may be something else entirely.   :undecided:

General Custer and troops will be here "real soon now"... :cheesy:


I hope you are not referring to me as General Custer seeing as what happened at Little Big Horn. Looks around for DCS lurking about.

But I agree. Check CM settings. When you created the EPS in Acrobat there are Color Management settings in there too. I usually turn it off so nothing gets changed during the conversion.
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Chelle on November 24, 2008, 08:13:27 PM
Could you open the PDF in Illustrator and save it as an EPS out of there?
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: frailer on November 24, 2008, 08:25:56 PM


...well yes, DCS was there, as I was imagining it, with an arrow through his hat.    :cheesy:

Chelle, there are people who post here who will have you arraigned for suggesting that procedure; unless you can prove it was an Illy PDF, of course.    :laugh:

Oh, and RedEmma, forgot. Welcome to the forum. Keep firing questions until we can't answer one, then you get a special award.      :cool:
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Chelle on November 24, 2008, 08:27:37 PM
Hell, I open almost ANY pdf I'm sent in Illy if it gives me issues or I need to perform some sort of "magic" on it. :laugh:
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: frailer on November 24, 2008, 08:35:04 PM
Quote from: Chelle on November 24, 2008, 08:27:37 PMHell, I open almost ANY pdf I'm sent in Illy if it gives me issues or I need to perform some sort of "magic" on it. :laugh:


        :shhh:
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Chelle on November 24, 2008, 08:40:22 PM
I almost choked on wine. Don't do that...
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Joe on November 24, 2008, 08:55:50 PM
Quote from: Chelle on November 24, 2008, 08:27:37 PMHell, I open almost ANY pdf I'm sent in Illy if it gives me issues or I need to perform some sort of "magic" on it. :laugh:






 :blowup:








 :police:








 :evil:








 :laugh:
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Chelle on November 24, 2008, 08:58:42 PM
Oh crap... I killed Joe... :sad:
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Joe on November 25, 2008, 02:16:02 AM
Quote from: frailer on November 24, 2008, 08:25:56 PM...well yes, DCS was there, as I was imagining it, with an arrow through his hat.    :cheesy:

I was more envisioning him in a loin cloth with a tomahawk lying in ambush.

(http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1060/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1060-789.jpg)

 :laugh:

Quote from: Chelle on November 24, 2008, 08:58:42 PMOh crap... I killed Joe... :sad:

Nah, I survived. I've seen worse things done with files. :tongue:
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: frailer on November 25, 2008, 03:25:32 AM
Quote from: Joe on November 25, 2008, 02:16:02 AMI was more envisioning him in a loin cloth with a tomahawk lying in ambush.


   D'Oh!. Of course... :embarrassed:

RedEmma, let us know how you fared with your problem too. We all benefit from feedback on these things...    :grin:
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Chelle on November 25, 2008, 06:41:33 AM
QuoteNah, I survived. I've seen worse things done with files. :tongue:
Hee. Well, when I have morons with history degrees that are playing at being a deziner who send me pdf's and I'm not allowed to talk to them because I'm "mean", it's easier to open them in Illy and do what I need to than try to play the "telephone game" with the salesman and explain what I need.
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: RedEmma on November 26, 2008, 05:52:11 AM
Thanks for all the suggestions! The Color Management settings are set to None, but I will see what I can find about a "legacy" setting in Q7. I haven't tried saving as an Illustrator EPS - that will be next on the list! Thanks all. 

Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: frailer on November 26, 2008, 08:06:07 PM


     ...it's here; (see image/screenshot below).

Bear in mind, it's been reported that it sometimes "resets" itself to the Quark7 setting. It is Quark after all...    :rolleyes:   Just good to be aware of it, is all.
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Possum on December 01, 2008, 11:23:05 AM
Quote from: Chelle on November 25, 2008, 06:41:33 AM
QuoteNah, I survived. I've seen worse things done with files. :tongue:
Hee. Well, when I have morons with history degrees that are playing at being a deziner who send me pdf's and I'm not allowed to talk to them because I'm "mean", it's easier to open them in Illy and do what I need to than try to play the "telephone game" with the salesman and explain what I need.

I hear ya. Used to have a PC newsletter from a customer who couldn't understand spot color or figure out how to embed fonts in her PDFs - and she was using InDesign. Couldn't import her PDFs straight into our version of Quark, they messed up in InDesign, and I ended up opening them in Illustrator, changing her colors and a few fonts (she never gave us all of them), and saving as EPSs.
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Chelle on December 01, 2008, 07:13:48 PM
Sounds about right. My dreaded project is one that gets sent in Word. *shudder* Luckily our PC in DOA and now they have to send it in PDF form.
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: frailer on December 01, 2008, 11:55:08 PM
Quote from: Chelle on December 01, 2008, 07:13:48 PMLuckily our PC is DOA and now they have to send it in PDF form.


    ....now I wonder how that happened?     :whistleblower:
Title: Re: Quark 7 & placed EPS file Problem
Post by: Chelle on December 02, 2008, 06:27:31 AM
No comment. :wink: