colors look dull in pdf

[Josie]

Few remarks:

1)

Getting the blue to be as blue as the example on the left is very difficult.

Well, I think this (Photoshop) blue can be printed as it displays. This is not the problem anyway. The problem is why the two pdfs display differently, because they SHOULD look the same.

2)

for me they look the same

Yes, they look quite the same on my monitor (not like in Behzad's sample), but the CMYK values are definitely NOT the same, so that sample Xara pdf may not be produced with correct settings.

3) Generally, mysterious thing is that if Xara pdf shows CGATS TR 001 as Output Intent in Output Preview in Acrobat, it shows different CMYK values than if you change the Output Intent to something else (while this does not apply to Photoshop pdfs). I believe that CGATS TR 001 output intent does not show correct color values for Xara pdf.

4) In my experience, if you do embed some color profile in Xara pdf, you never get the same colors compared to Photoshop pdf.