PDF: No more color profile embedding?

[maak]

Hi there,

am I wrong, or does the embedding of color profiles no longer work in Designer Pro 6?

Try to export as PDF.
Preset Selections: Custom.
Click on Advanced Options.
Choose Pre-Press.

Here I chose a custom color profile (PSRgravureHWC.icc), which significantly changes the colors.

Everything worked okay in Xtreme Pro 5.

But now, when I switch on Embed profile, the resulting PDF shows the same colors, as if the switch was not ticked.

Anyone else noticed that? Or am I missing something?

ANY comments on this welcome!

bye:maak.

[behzad]

I too was wondering about that.

[Nostaw]

There are a couple of things wrong in Xara6 PDF export that i'm still pin pointing down and hope to be able to report soon. It's almost like Xara6 got a entire new PDF engine. There are definately very old bugs back that I had encountered.

[maak]

That sounds interesting... to say the least. I do hope that there will a quick fix for that issue.

I wish, those people at Xara would frequent these forums more often and write us a few lines, so that we can see, they are aware of our problems.

I'm using Designer Pro for a lot of print work and am going to be a little tiny...
desperate :-(

bye:maak.

[Albacore]

Your colour profile is going to give you changes in colour as it's a CMYK profile. This has happened for years and I can't see much change in the PDF that I have done with D Pro6. I have done now 4 jobs for print since the new programme became available and the output is what I expected from Fogra.

I tried and was successful in setting up custom profile (X-Rite iCColor) but I haven't printed yet but I am into work tomorrow so I will get a wet copy and see if the changes are as large as you state. If there was a large change in the PDF engine I would have thought that Xara would have really gone to town and publicised it. Don't know mind you my runs have been fine.

[mega]

Hi Maak,

I'm a developer of the PDF export filter for Xara.

Unfortunately I can't reproduce this, when I export a simple rectangle with gradient fill, set the export options to Custom, CMYK, custom ICC profile PSRgravureHWC.icc, and "Embed profile" button, I get the .pdf file of size 1.7MB, and the profile is in the file. When I unchek "Embed profile", the result pdf is 5KB in size. Could you be more specific - what version of the filter are you using and what type of a design do you export. Ideally I need a sample .xar design that shows the problem.

Thanks.

[maak]

Hi mega,

it's so good to hear from you :-)

I'm going to post a .xar and give you some specific data about that issue tomorrow.

bye:maak.

[gwpriester]

Hi Mega - Good to have you here.

Is there any progress for grayscale support and spot color bitmap support?

[maak]

Here we go again.

I use the following program versions:
Xara Xtreme Pro 5 - 5.1.2.10703 CD
Xara Designer Pro 6 - 6.1.1.13205 DL

The color profile i use still is PSRgravureHWC.icc.
The PDF version i chose is ISO15930-1.

I attached the .xar file, as well as
- a pdf from 6 without embedded profile (578 KB)
- a pdf from 6 with the profile embedded (576 KB)
- a pdf from 5 without embedded profile (575 KB)
- a pdf from 5 with the profile embedded (zipped, originally 2,309 KB)

This should be enough for now. Give me a hint, if you need more infos.

bye:maak.

[mega]

Thanks Maak,

I figured out what was wrong and fixed this issue. The version of the PDF filter is 4,0,0,8. Thanks for your cooperation!