Hello Mr. Karcher,
Please find my comments below ...
Best regards,
Florian Suessl
Am 06.12.2005 um 20:33 schrieb Klaus Karcher:
Hello all,
Florian Süßl wrote:
Hello Jan-Peter,
I thought we discussed that point already ?!?
yes, e.g. in July in the german list (thread "Acrobat 7 vs.
Distiller 7 - Output Intents") ... with a deflating conclusion IMHO.
All you are referring to is ambiguity in the case
that
*different* printing profiles are used which, as you know, is
prohibited in a pdf/ x-3 workflow.
At that point all your remarks regarding different color
appearence depending on rendering intent and profiles used for
the RGB to CMYK conversion are *not* valid in a pdf/x-3 workflow
where source (RGB- profile), rendering intent and target (CMYK/
output condition profile of the PDF/X-3) file are defined.
Once all three parameters (source-profile, target-profile and
rendering intent) are defined the user (e.g. prepress house or
graphic designer) can verify the to be expected color appearance
of the choosen printing condition via softproof in Adobe Acrobat
or on a proofing system.
- PDF/X-3 does not force the use of a target-profile, but an
OutputIntents, which *can* contain a DestOutputProfile.
this is only true if the
pdf/x-3 file contains cmyk and spot color only.
in the case of non CMYK such as CIELAB and color characterized RGB
the outputIntent profile is a must and *not* an option in a PDF/X-3 file
- Distiller 7 does not allow to set the OutputConditionIdentifier
and Registry correctly (e.g. to "FOGRA27") if you want to use *any*
Profiles other than those provided by Adobe (e.g.
"EuropeISOCoatedFOGRA27"). This behavior is *hardcoded* in
acrodistdll!
This is a bug and not intenionally - and of course bugs need to be
fixed.
However creating a valid pdf/x-3 is not rocket science: Acrobat
Professional offers the respective option via an icon in the lower
left corner of the preflight window.
This means that if you are working with eci IsoCoated or any ohter
Profile based on Forga27 and want to use Distiller or Indesing to
create the X3, yo can *eiter* embed ther correct profile *or* set
the "OutputConditionIdentifier" and "Registry" fileds correctly.
As mentioned above - bugs need to be fixed but as there is a
workaround this is no show stopper.
There are workarouds (e.g. using MacOSX Colorsync Filters to create
the X3 or convert every PDF to X3 using Acrobat's Prefligt
tools), but IMHO Distiller's behaves more than strange and is
finally useless to create fully-fledged X3s.
No color ambiguity - not here.
IMHO this is practically not more than wishful thinking today. I
would be already happy if the "blind excange" of PDF/X-1a (or CMYK-
Based X-3) would flow smoothly in either case -- but I still hope
for a better future :-)
with regard to Jan-Peter's example I completely disagree.
Once a pdf/x-3 is created it's color appearence is identical with the
color appearance of a pdf/x-1 with the same color conversions
conducted prior to the pdf creation.
If I get your point correctly I would like to agree: As long as the
properties of (pdf-)files - regardless whether they are pdf/x-1 or
pdf/x-3 - are changed at output stage, there will be suboptimal final
printed output (colorwice causing a mismatch between proof and print).
Interventions by the CtP RIP such as ignoring the overprint settings
of the pdf (happened with overprinting black turned to cut out in a
huge print job), ignoring profiles etc. may or may not be the right
choice.
But these problems are not caused by the pdf/x standard - things like
that happened and happen with open files as well.
Best regards,
Florian
Best Regards,
Klaus
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