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yoxi
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 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:18 am Post subject: PDFs and CMYK |
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Just for confirmation here - the Export to PDF facility in Neo (and OOo presumably) doesn't do export to CMYK, it only does RGB, yes?
If so, is there an app (that doesn't cost loads - it's for a charity) that anyone knows of to convert RGB PDFs to CMYK for pre-press?
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OPENSTEP
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Hmm....that's a good one. I think that it does only do RGB. I actually have used nothing except Photoshop to do CYMK work myself  Does Gimp do CYMK yet?
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sardisson
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Not only that, but OOo doesn't support CMYK at all. It balks, borks, or crashes when trying to import/open/insert CMYK images
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yoxi
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Yes, I didn't think OOo would work with CMYK but I was hoping there was some way to export/convert PDFs. Someone at my workplace does the business newsletter in Word (all together now - sigh...) and the printer will only accept a PDF of ot - but it prints weird colours because it's RGB output, of course. I'll keep looking for a solution - if I find anything useful I'll post it here.
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fabriziovenerandi
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I think it could be better to use a programm that uses cymk; Ragtime solo could be a good no-cost solution.
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OPENSTEP
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Wow, cool! I had forgotten about Ragtime...nifty to see that they're still around. I'll have to check that out myself!
Linky:
http://www.ragtime-online.com/
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yoxi
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My aforementioned colleague does his Word 'design' in windows, which is a shame, because if I could get him on a mac he could use NeoOffice instead - which is relevant because apparently in OSX PDF export, one has the ability to tweak the ICC to export to a CMYK colourspace. If I find out more than... well, just that sentence so far, I'll post the info.
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sardisson
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Oh, the Quartz filters....
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