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Colour PDF prints all black ?

simonwar
Registered: Aug 16 2007
Posts: 6

I sent a "password" and "permission" protected full colour pdf file, that also included a watermark set to "will not print" to a friend, sent the "password" through, but even though he could see a full colour pdf when he printed it, it was black blocks not even a grayscale version of the colour simply black blocks?
 
Any ideas whats happened?
 
Thanks Simon.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 6.0.1, Windows
leonardr
Expert
Registered: Feb 14 2006
Posts: 333
Sounds like your user has an older version of Acrobat/Reader that doesn't support watermarks correctly.

Leonard Rosenthol
PDF Standards Architect
Adobe Systems

simonwar
Registered: Aug 16 2007
Posts: 6
A fair point, however he was using Pro 6 as well as me.

We did manage to resolve the problem. He did not have the "Proof Colours" box ticked.

A bit weird, that such an option deep in the adobe menu would have such an effect on print output ?

Thanks for your help, Simon.