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gordo

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  1. I think I know what the problem may be.

    Although the PDF has an embedded  profile it does not have a rendering intent embedded (I believe that InDesign calls this "Output Intent Profile Name")

    When Acrobat opens the PDF it expects to see a rendering intent (likely true for many RIPs). If it does not see the rendering intent then it simply ignores the embedded profile and assigns an arbitrary profile and 100K gets rendered as a 4/C rich black.

    Depending on how a prepress RIP is set up, you will either correctly get 1 black plate or you will incorrectly get 4 plates (one for each of the colors in the now rich black)

    PhotoShop (a simple RIP) opens the Publisher PDF and displays it correctly as a CMYK file with image content only in the K channel.

    Affinity Photo, on the other hand, opens the PDF and displays it as a CMYK file with image content in all channels. I.e. Affinity Photo converts the one color (K) PDF into 4/C (rich black)

    I can't see a way in Publisher to embed the rendering intent (as can be done in InDesign) which would eliminate the issue.

    So this lack of ability to embed the rendering intent will be problematic in production with folks getting unpredictable results.  :-(

     

     

  2. 1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

    As I said, the K Only support/option seems to currently be only in Designer, and possibly only in Designer for Windows. As Publisher clearly has the same issue, I expect we'll see that support in Publisher in an upcoming beta release, too.

    This bug has been there over many versions. Considering it's a key issue one would have expected it to be dealt with by now.

  3. 20 minutes ago, fde101 said:

    You need to have Show Text Flow enabled in the View menu for the red dots to show up.

    Clicking on the eyeball icon next to the overflow indicator on the right side of the text box toggles clipping of the text vs. allowing it to overflow the container - if you look closely it is crossed out in the second video but not in the first, so this is intended behavior.

    Ah, a user bug. I'll have to talk to my developers about it.LOL

    I've never had that option with other apps so I never looked for it.

     

  4. No red dots for me.

    There is an inconsistency in how the text boxes work.

    Video "Text box 1" shows that sometimes you can make the text box shorter and the box gets shorter but the text doesn't disappear.

    But sometimes it works properly.

    Video "Text box 2" shows that sometimes you can make the text box shorter and the box gets shorter and the text does disappear. Note also that the red flag briefly shows but then disappears as the box gets shorter. However, no red dots appear.

     

  5. As far as I can see, if you place an image in PDF format that has one or more spot color channels Publisher doesn't see the extra spot channel(s). Acrobat shows the channels correctly.

    If instead of placing the image that has one or more spot color channels you open it in Publisher then the extra spot color appears as a layer below the cmyk and that layer looks correct color-wise however it's no longer a spot color.

    Attached is a quickly done image that can be used to test.

    (I use this functionality to do packaging and Hi-Fi color separations)

     

     

    CMYK + 2725.pdf

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