FM9: correcting CMYK colors in PDF following save-as

[Edmondson, Becky]

Using FM9.0p237. I am a longtime user.

I will be using FM9 to create PDFs for 4-color printing. Ach, the headaches! I know I have to use Save-As and de-select Convert CMYK Colors to RGB. (I know that this means FM uses its own Unix Postscript generator, and not the Industry Standards Distiller options that I *wish* it would use.)

I do indeed get a pure CMYK PDF. Onscreen, the colors look good, but my printer tells me the color values are wrong. Example: CustomBlue is defined as 69.18.23.1 in FM, but it comes out as 68.8,32.2,0,0 in the PDF-very different  color.

Unless someone knows some FM fix for this, I will be correcting colors in the PDF.

My question: Can people recommend the best software for this? Is Acrobat Pro 9 good enough? should I get the PitstopPro plugin? Other? We can't buy anything too expensive-can go up to $800 max.

I hope that this is an OK question to ask. My apologies if it is not, please ignore if that is the case.

Many thanks for your help,
Becky

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