Colour question

[Lester C. Smalley]

As has been repeated in this forum, time and time again, if you are
'printing' to PDF you should be using the Acrobat Distiller print
driver, and not the drivers for any specific real or generic device.
This should show up in your system (Windows) as the "Adobe PDF" or
"Acrobat Distiller" (if you have an older version of Acrobat) printer.

While you may not have any immediate problems, there is the strong
possibility that the resulting PDF will not be compatible for all
devices, or suffer from other problems which will rear their ugly heads
at the most inopportune times such as 15 minutes before a critical
deadline.....

And I am not convinced that the printer drivers in Windows use CMYK -
they may, but they may also just use RGB which is what the Windows GDI
(Graphic Device Interface) uses as it's default color space.

On Friday, June 09, 2006 03:09 PM, Daniel Doornbos wrote:

< SNIP >

| When you print to PDF, you use a printer driver, either a specific
color
| laser printer or a generic driver. These drivers use CMYK color as
well,
| so again, you are left with an approximation.

- Lester 
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