trying to make a tiff I can color in quark 4.1

[shiningp]

I've suddenly lost the power to make a grayscale tiff accept spot color in quark 4.1.

I've tried saving with various tiff settings - layers, no layers, save transparency, byte order, etc. I tried bmp files too. Am I missing something vital?

Saving from Photoshop is not working for me. I can get something that works by saving out of Illustrator - but it has white background. I want to control color/tint of image box background too.

arrgh!
any advice for getting round this much appreciated
(using a PC)

[nlynx76]

did you recently reinstall Quark 4.1 or somehow remove a few extensions? I know we have to have an extension that allows us to send over colored tiffs to RIP correctly...

[shiningp]

'k thanks, will look into that idea

[Sparky]

In Quark 4.1 (classic) grayscale images will retain the white background as white. as a bitmap image Quark will see the "white" areas as transparent. In photoshop "flattening" an image first then saving as a ,tif file with no compression is how we save every tif (grayscale) then assigning any color to it in Quark is a breeze. If you need to retain the grayscale image but have the background drop out then you will have to either allow Quark to "define edges" in clipping, or outline the image in Photoshop and create a clipping path and save it there, then Quark will recognize the path and outline the image.