Grayscale Images are RGB

[Scott White]

Well said Rick.



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




On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Rick Quatro wrote:

> I share your "slack-jawed wonder" with this. FrameMaker seems to be focused
> on improvements for a particular market (structured Frame, DITA, topic-based
> authoring), while at the same time neglecting an existing market (catalogs
> and books with color requirements). A baseline requirement for any
> page-layout program is to do color correctly (not to mention a pasteboard,
> paragraph rules, baseline shift, ruler guides, "Don't show this again" in
> warning dialog boxes, etc.). There is antidotal evidence that even users
> moving to structured authoring are moving away from FrameMaker. Because of
> FrameMaker's traditional strengths, I have always said that the technical
> and long-document publishing market is Adobe's to lose. Unfortunately, their
> handling of FrameMaker has been largely self-destructive.
> 
> The suggestion to move to InDesign is certainly not appropriate for many
> large catalogs, particularly if you are using automation. While InDesign is
> very scriptable, its scripting performance (and performance in general) on
> large documents is very sluggish.
> 
> I realize that Dov has nothing directly to do with FrameMaker, but I wonder
> if any of the FrameMaker people at Adobe read this list.
> 
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> 585-659-8267
> rick at frameexpert.com
> www.frameexpert.com
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> http://www.frameexpert.com/peace/
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> 
> 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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