An ICC profile I can' find back in PDF export (Xara Designer Pro)

**stephane_fr** · 02 October 2012, 01:29 PM

Hello everybody.

I have to finalise a big work (an entire board game with packaging, cards...) with a german company for the printing.
They asked me to work, when exporting the pdf files, with an ICC profile called ISO COATED V2 (39L).
So I've downloaded it, and I put it in the directory : Xara Designer Pro X\Filters\PDFXFilter\icc (is that good ?)

Anyway, when I'm going to the PDF/X export menu, in the "custom" option, in "Pre-Press", I don't find the profile I put in Xara.

Could someone give my the informations I missed ?

Thank you very much,
Stephane

**handrawn** · 02 October 2012, 01:46 PM

Hi - I think, and its not something I have done, that you need to select custom on the pre-press tab and then use the button on the third line below to browse to your new profile to add it

**stephane_fr** · 02 October 2012, 02:50 PM

Indeed it works in that way. Thank you very much

I have a last question : they ask me too to "create rich black with 100% black + 40-60% cyan." (speaking about illustrator or freehand soft, but the same I suppose for Xara and all vectors softs). What is that and how to get it ?

**mwenz** · 02 October 2012, 03:01 PM

The "Rich" CMYK black they are talking about does not apply to small text (like below 10 pt, depending on what is behind it)--just so you know.

For your blacks to meet what they desire, just make the CMYK C=40 (up to 60) and K = 100. It's not a typical rich CMYK black as usually the others (M+Y) have values as well.

Take care, Mike

**stephane_fr** · 02 October 2012, 03:04 PM

Ok.

All my documents are done, I have to define again all my blacks.

But sometimes I have 2 or 3 blacks in my colours (when for instance I had to import vector files into another).

How can I do to have, in final, only 1 black in my documents, instead of 2 or 3 ?

**mwenz** · 02 October 2012, 03:12 PM

Hello Stéphane,

By two or three blacks are you meaning shades/tones of black or simply the blacks as defined in these other files are a different CMYK mixture?

There is no easy way to turn the 100% blacks into the 40,0,0,100 black with an exception. You can highlight like objects and turn them into the C/K mixture at one time. Same with the line color (if there are black lines) as well as with the shades/tones of black.

But it also depends on what exactly I am working on on how to proceed. Can you share a screen shot if the above doesn't make sense?

Take care, Mike