Re: Overprint and Color Management Questions
Gee what a big question. If you use the Creative Suite for your workflow then your in for a few surprises. No Xara programmes colour manage in the way that Adobe does when you select what type of Colour Mode when you open a new doc. So when you export your design as a PDF there can be large colour shifts when you view it in Acro Pro/reader. There are a few ways to achieve the consistent colours that you want and the most obvious one to use is a Pantone book which gives the equivalent values in RGB/CMYK for that Pantone No. I agree with Mike on your questions about separations and trapping as all that gets sorted out at the RIP stage but I might have a look at it if I had a large area of transparency with text over the top. Don't know what you mean the the way of colour libraries is it profiles like "FOGRA39" etc.? If you do mean that yes but they are a bit out of date and again most profiles are replaced by the printer as they use there own. Your first question you asked about "postscript" do you mean an EPS file as I think that a PDF file is much smarter than any EPS file when it comes to print. They say that most printing now takes place more than 100 miles away from the user but I like to establish some form of communication with the ones that I used so that small problems can be dealt with quickly
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