FrameMaker to PDF color shift problem

Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 18:22:26 PST 2008


Is this on-screen or printed?
Is the system monitor and the printer color calibrated?

And... you didn't provide any version or OS information, which is
pretty important.

Art

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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:21 PM, D L Reynolds <reynolds at semicool.com> wrote:
> I need to use a slate blue color in a manual I'm creating -- rules
> and heading text. But no matter what color model I specify in
> FrameMaker, I get a garish cyan when the file is converted to PDF.
> This is only a problem with elements and text created in FrameMaker.
> Linked EPS files and screenshots are working just fine. And the color
> looks fine in FrameMaker; it only goes south in the PDF.
>
> For the record, I've tried Pantone spot and process, RGB, web-safe,
> you name it. And I just keep getting shades of cyan. I've tried
> FrameMaker 7 and 8, same result. I'm using Windows XP and WebWorks
> Rasterizer to create the .ps file for distilling. (The Adobe PDF
> driver crashes FrameMaker on this machine.) From within Distiller,
> I've selected the Leave Color Unchanged option, but no luck.
>
> Has anyone had experience with this sort of problem?
>
> Many thanks,
>
>    --Donna Reynolds
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