Grayscale Images are RGB

[Scott White]

I will not be doing a major catalog in InDesign. That would take who knows how long. Framemaker is the best thing out there for catalogs period.

I have found, with Dov's help, that save as pdf, with the right acrobat options, is giving me true grayscale. But I know there are some concerns with this process too. I'm still doing some testing with my printer on settings as we speak. We are also testing spot color now as that is a major issue with many of my clients as they like to use it in the catalog.

I was also explaining to Jacob Schaffer that if I had to tell potential customers of our software, that to make Framemaker work you have to buy this software and that software to work with our xml dump... Can you imagine how much more difficult it would be to make a sale? Most of my clients are not tech savy and buy our filemaker solution to print flyers (using InDesign) and catalogs (Framemaker) and drive an eCommerce site without them having to be experts. If it seemed this software was complicated to run then they would go else where. This is why we worked directly with Framemaker years ago to ensure our solution worked with what Adobe was providing when it came to Framemaker importing our code and allowing our clients to create a cost-effective catalog. And it still does, but since the windows-only version came out, and support when overseas, Frame has become more and more difficult to meet my customers' print needs.

I have to ensure I can properly teach these folks what they need to do and expect. Thus the testing continues.


Scott White
Media Production & EBC Manager
Implementation Coordinator
210-704-8239
swhite at alamark.com




On Jan 29, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote:

> At 09:58 -0800 28/1/10, Dov Isaacs wrote:
> 
>> On the Macintosh, real grayscale TIFF came out into PostScript and hence PDF as grayscale. Other than for EPS, this never happened on Windows prior to FrameMaker 9 "save as PDF" without the RGB option.... Quite frankly, if you really need to worry about critical color and graphic arts issues and
>> don't need certain FrameMaker creature comforts and structured document features, you might consider migrating to InDesign.
> 
> I have been following this thread with a certain amount of slack-jawed wonder. A précis seems to be 'Mac FrameMaker did color right, Windows FrameMaker doesn't and may never'.
> 
> Draw your own conclusions. I doubt whether Scott's looking forward to migrating his client's catalogs, with thousands of pages and millions of images, to InDesign.
> 
> -- 
> Steve
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