also working with images

Mike Wickham mewickham at compuserve.com
Wed Feb 13 07:49:21 PST 2008


> On 2/4/08, Mike Wickham <mewickham at compuserve.com> wrote:
>> If you're on the Windows platform, and creating documents for press, EPS 
>> is
>> really the only way to go for color graphics. With every other graphics
>> format, Frame passes the graphics through the Windows GDI when creating
>> Postscript. CMYK graphics are converted to RGB in the process and colors 
>> may
>> change. EPS is passed around the Windows GDI and maintains original 
>> colors.
>
> Slightly OT, but for comparison purposes -- does InDesign do this as well?
>

It's not an issue with InDesign. It avoids the Windows GDI. So your CMYK 
will remain unchanged and there is no need to convert to EPS.

Mike Wickham





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