[Framers] Overprint Not Working in FrameMaker 10 and Acrobat Pro 2017

[Heiko Haida]

Hi Mike,

I checked using a simple rectangle and some text.
I checked the behaviour with FM 8 and FM 2017 (no FM10 installed)

Changing the color definition to "overprint" worked, as the pdf has 
marked the black color as "overprint".

Here the info in the Acrobat "output preview" tool for the modified 
file:

In case the normal color definition is used, "Page has Overprint" will 
show a "No" in the resulting PDF.

I cannot say more about this.
Of course, for overprint or knock-out to become visible or effective, a 
separation is necessary.

Best regards -- Tino H. Haida, Berlin

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2021-04-14 05:04, Mike Wickham:

> Hi, all,
> 
> I'm having issues getting overprint settings to work. I have a document 
> that has a full-page, solid-color graphic imported and filling the 
> entire master page background. So the page is not white, but has a 
> color. I want to overprint black text on it, rather than have the text 
> knockout the background and risk registration issues at press time. But 
> I cannot get overprint to work. The text keeps knocking out the 
> background. Here is what I have done:
> 
> 1. I created a color definition called Overprint Black, set to Process, 
> CMYK, 0% CMY and 100% black, and Overprint.
> 
> 2. I assigned Overprint Black as the text color for all text formats on 
> the body page. I thought this would be enough, but it wasn't so, I did 
> the following in progressive steps.
> 
> 3. On the master page, I set Object Properties of all text frames and 
> the background EPS graphic to Overprint. I found some Adobe help that 
> says that EPS files don't overprint, so I tried with a TIF background 
> graphic instead. Same result.
> 
> 4. On the reference page, I set the Object Properties of the Single 
> Line background frame item (there are a couple of these on the page) to 
> Color: Overprint Black and Overprint: Overprint.
> 
> So I have text color, text frames, and even the graphic (though it is 
> behind everything) set to overprint. I expect text and single line 
> rules to overprint the colored background graphic. But they all knock 
> out the background graphic.
> 
> Using File>Print with printer set to Adobe PDF (with and without print 
> to file) I generate a complete PDF, using FrameMaker 10 and Acrobat 
> 2017. The PDF is beautiful, but the Object Inspector in Acrobat shows 
> "Overprint=False" for everything. And if I look at separations, the 
> non-black plates are, indeed, knocked out.
> 
> I have been away from FrameMaker for a while, so am a little rusty. 
> What am I missing? Why is Overprint not working?
> 
> Mike Wickham
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