Real World experience of Matt Beals' handy color conversion.

[almaink]

Sure I'm interested, how about version 8?

[huck]

Originally Posted by mattbeals

de nada.
Or as my Russian FSB buddies say, "Is nothing".

[pspdfppd]

I've always wondered why pitstop doen'st have something like photoshop....the north american prepress defaults as a pull down preference. These seem to work pretty well in most of our coated jobs.

I'm thinking...is it technically difficult? Or is there some copyright problem that makes it hard for enfocus to do it. Dunno. I've never had any luck setting up color management in pitstop...went through all the steps to no avail. Don't know why though.

It's a real pain using the touchup object tool in acrobat for big pdfs and sometimes even this does not work. Says it's an unkown color space or the pdf has been so stitched up (like a publisher pdf which looks like a quilt) that it's insane to edit each little bit of the picture. I've had more luck recreating the ps file and letting distiller manage the color. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't imagine life without pitstop but the color managment issue has always been a big problem. If a competitor came out that could make the color management simple and do all the other things that pitstop does, I'd look twice.

[frailer]

Am visiting this again in PSP. It seems that the only options in Target, for gray, are Generic Gray Profile or Generic Enfocus Gray. No option for choosing Black Ink-XXXXX, a la PhotoShop. I'm in Acrobat Pro 7/PSP 7. Maybe that option's changed since the Acro 6 "how to"?

[mattbeals]

In PhotoShop you turn on the advanced button, go to the gray profile, choose "load", pick the profile to pull black from, go back to the gray menu and choose "save gray". Save the "Black Ink - " profile somewhere like /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles or /Library/ColorSync/Profile/ Then you can load the gray profile into the spot color in PhotoShop and have it show up in PitStop.

As to why doesn't Enfocus use something like North American settings as in Adobe apps? PitStop can't pickup it's color management settings (profiles) from Adobe. Why? I have no idea. Could it be done? Probably. Will they? I have no idea. It would be a nice feature request. And you know how those go, the more something is requested the more they pay attention.

[frailer]

Muchas gracias!

[pspdfppd]

I was just working on a project today where the "touch-up object" tool was needed. There were problems though...

The photoshop file which opened was not one single image....it was a combo of 2 which looked like one image and if you changed the color on the bigger piece, you'd see that there was a box inside that did not change. So basically when I worked on the curves in photoshop I had to save the curve, then reload it into the 2nd piece. Real pain in the butt.

The reason we were not supplied the native files was the brochures were a combination of english and chinese and we were told we'd have a font problem. I thought Indesign could handle chinese fonts but that's rambling on to another issue...

[pspdfppd]

Like this:

http://img260.imageshack.us/my.php?image=helpingyh0.jpg

[pspdfppd]

uh...maybe like this!