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Quark 6.5 Xport PDF Black comes out on all plates.

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2007-05-13 19:45:27
buzzwig
Registered: May 13 2007
Posts: 2

Hi. I'm trying to make a PDF from a Quark 6.5 (Mac) page that has color and black text. Export > Page as PDF... won't work. It tells me that it can't make the PDF. So I'm trying to save an eps that I can Distill. Problem is the blacks keep separating into every channel. I want the blacks on the K plate only. Does anyone know the trick here?

buzzwig

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2007-05-20 08:44:19
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Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
If you can Distill, you have Distiller.
If you have Distiller you can use the "AdobePDF" virtual printer to create PDFs (File menu > Print).Otherwise on Mac OS X.4, you can use the "Save as PDF/X" Apple PDF-service (or create your own).

;-)

abracadabraPDF.net

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2007-05-20 23:18:04
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PeterKleinheider
Registered: May 18 2007
Posts: 10
Hello buzzwig

buzzwig wrote:
Hi. I'm trying to make a PDF from a Quark 6.5 (Mac) page that has color and black text. Export > Page as PDF... won't work. It tells me that it can't make the PDF. So I'm trying to save an eps that I can Distill. Problem is the blacks keep separating into every channel. I want the blacks on the K plate only. Does anyone know the trick here?
What is the exact error message you get when you try to export as PDF?

Usually nether XPress nor Acrobat converts a pure black text to rich black. Have you double checked the used color in XPress and your Distiller settings?

Can it be that your colour space in the export dialog is not CMYK or DeviceN?

If you have Distiller installed, why do you generate your PDF using the AdobePDF printer driver?

regards
Peter Kleinheider
callas software

Regards,

Peter Kleinheider
callas software GmbH
Co-Chair specifications subcommittee at GWG

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