FM9: correcting CMYK colors in PDF following save-as

[White, Scott]

Again, working with color in Framemaker rears its ugly head. With
Framemaker 10 in development I hope the team will take note that the
treatment of color in Framemaker is not adequate and work on resolving
the 4-color, spot, and tint issues that Framemaker has added to our jobs
since the banishment of Framemaker on the MAC.
I live your pain Becky.
Scott White
Media Production Manager
Alamark Technologies
210-704-8239
 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Edmondson,
Becky
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:21 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: FM9: correcting CMYK colors in PDF following save-as

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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