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Kevin Neal added these pithy words on Nov 23 07 at 1:10 pmHi I’ve read through your article several times, and it describes the situation we want to achieve – having RGB images in the layout that we can view accurately on screen and printed as they would look when they are converted to CMYK, we have this working in Quark 6.5 but have been unable to duplicate the set up in Quark 7, the images always come out far too light with a orange colour cast. the same is true if we use the “save picture” function and convert to CMYK, I have tried all the combinations of settings I can think of – Quark haven’t been much help so wondered if you have any ideas?
[Georg Obermayr]: To achieve this goal make sure you comply at least with some minimum requirements: Create a new source Setup: Define source Profiles for RGB and CMYK solid and image colors. Define a rendering intent for RGB to CMYK conversions. Then create a new output color setup: Choose “CMYK” as mode an your desired output profile (e.g. ISO Coated…). Then switch to QuarkXPress Preferences and than to the color manager for print layouts. Choose the newly created source setup as a preference for all new documents. Also choose your color output setup as softproofing setting. Its also a good idea to set LogoSync as prefered CMM and to activate Black point compensation. After all this steps you are ready to create a new layout und to start designing. When you are on the way to create your printable PDF (PDF/X, best way is to “export”) the most important thing is that you choose your color output setup in the colors tab when exporting. In case you are not doing this all former steps have been worthless!
If you have allready checked all this steps some more detailled analysis would be necessary. Feel free to contact me via private mail. Please let me know if it works.
Kevin Neal added these pithy words on Nov 23 07 at 3:53 pmThank you so much for your reply, that made more sense than all the quark info ! I now have good soft proofing, and pdf / eps output matches. One last thing that I cannot get to work is the Save Picture feature when converting from RGB to CMYK, I end up with an untagged CMYK, sent an example doc to Quark and they couldn’t get it to work either, have you had any success with this, if so can I send you the doc so you can see where I am going wrong – the guy from quark gave up and said ” It is not the feature which is not working, it will be just be the software limitation..” errr sounds like he means it doesn’t work!
[Georg Obermayr]: I’m afraid but I was also not able to to get predictable color results from the Save Pictures feature! It seems that there is no ICC-based color management implementet. There is no possibility to definie desitination profiles, rendering intens (and source profiles) for the conversions – so XPress will probably use some hard-wired mechanism. I would recommend not to use the color transformation functions of the Save Pictures feature. One possible workflow could be to use hot folders that perform the color transformation after resaving the images with “Save Pictures”. Hope that helps.
Kevin Neal added these pithy words on Nov 23 07 at 5:24 pmWell at least I’m not going mad! We have been using Docuslim to convert to CMYK, scale, crop and re-import, but was hoping a built in system would be better – as you say we could let Quark scale and crop and then leave it to Photoshop to handle the CMYK conversion, until Quark add some control to this feature.. Thanks for your time, you’ve been very helpful
