March Workbook #23 - Pantone Colors - CMYK TIFF - and more

[gwpriester]

I have dedicated this Workbook to some of the more frequently asked questions and some of the more misunderstood features such as Pantone colors.

Hope this helps.

Gary

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[gwpriester]

I have dedicated this Workbook to some of the more frequently asked questions and some of the more misunderstood features such as Pantone colors.

Hope this helps.

Gary

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[mags]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you and again THANK YOU!

Off to learn now!

Mags

[Su Lawrence]

Hi Gary

Great stuff there. The Pantone information has already come in very handy for me, to clear up something I wasn't sure of.

Many thanks!

Regards

Su

[RAMWolff44]

I'm with Mags.............. THANK YOU!

and Su too!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Richard http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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[Albacore]

Good information is this workbook as always.

Can I ask Gary why the monthly workbook is always done as html format? Years ago it was a way of communicating with evryone but with the everending march of Adobe now everyone has PDF reader and your work might be safer.

Surely it would be much easier for you to produce it for the PDF format. I know you use a template and you have just got to stick it in but it takes time (it certainly does for me). You will say I have got to produce it for the Xone page so why not but you could just upload the PDF file to the server with one index page either to view it by PDF or download the Zip version.

I do not want to start waves here, because I hold your work in the highest respect, it is just a thought to make it easier for you.

[gwpriester]

PDF?

It is not that hard for me to do. It just involves an extra step. I create the all the sites in NetObjects Fusion, a web authoring application that outputs an HTML page. This way I can publish the site to the web for people who want to go through the tutorial on-line or download the HTML file to display in their browser.

The new version of Acrobat, makes it pretty easy to point to an entire website and convert it to a PDF file. I'm just not that sure that there is much advantage to the PDF file for what it is I am doing.

And to switch programs to, say, Adobe In-Design, and create the document that way would require a bit of learning curve time and changing the habits of 8 or 9 years. :-o Although I am sure that once I got the knack of it...

What does everyone else think?

Gary

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[OklaEd]

Hi Gary,

Very nice workbook ... thank you http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

I too would prefer the .pdf format. That way I could keep all of the workbooks in one directory, burn them to a CD for safekeeping, and print them out whenever needed.

As it is ... the zip file contains 53 separate files which must be kept in one directory per workbook.

Either way you go ... I'm just glad to have them http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

-Ed.

[mags]

Digesting, digesting, digesting this wonderful and informative workbook (and one that couldn't have came at a better time for me!)

...am getting the strong impression that the "safest" format to export something (ie. logo) for commerical printing is .tiff -still got my stupid head on - if using this method is it therefore pointless using spot colours etc. How do you ensure the colours printed are a good match when I presume when its saved as a .tiff ???

And I also presume that unless I can save the logo in a format with seperations it is pointless giving the client the spot colour values??

Please help! My brain is hurting!

Mags

[gwpriester]

Mags

The best format for a logo is EPS unless you are using a lot of bitmap effects.

Reason is scalability. If you logo is all vector images it will scale up or down and still be sharp. And as logos need to be many sizes...

Gary

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