quark trapping

[bernoose]

anybody know of a extention or script that will automatically set the quark trapping to zero.

I use a rip system that takes seperations and the quark trapping goes and does its horrible thing.

any suggestions would be helpful

[seratne]

I don't know of any xtension or applescript (been looking myself). There is a shortcut combo to bring up the documents trapping preferences, option+shift+f12 i believe.

[tbJAMMIN]

I had the opposite problem with Apogee v3. try PDF'ing.

[tbJAMMIN]

Wait a minute, now I remember....

Quark only traps when you send seps from quark. If you send composite, you don't get any traps applied.

[jimking]

Go to preferences=trapping, and set to "knock out all". This will get rid of quark's trapping only.

[bernoose]

Thanks

but I do want to double check . if I have to trap in illustrator it will still hyold the settings there right.

also if the traps are turned off in quark does this effect the black overprint as well.

thanks for all your help.

[jimking]

If you knock out all it removes all quark traps including black type overprint. And yes, any trapping that's done in Illustrator will stay. Preferably "knock out all" is for workflows that could not strip this function from quark when imposing, trapping etc..

[sequoyah]

jimking,

Your method of setting the trap preference to "knock out all" also takes care of the problem I describe in this thread, in which the overprint attribute is retained even in composite output:

http://www.prepressforums.com/ftopicp-44122.html#44122

Preferably "knock out all" is for workflows that could not strip this function from quark when imposing, trapping etc.

I seem to recall from some where, that some trapping software remove or somehow cancel preexisting traps from input ps files BEFORE applying its own trapping process. Is this what you are referring to here? Can you say a little more about those scenarios?

Thanks,

Al Ferrari

[jimking]

Yes. Years back using Apogee1 workflow we had problems with traps and the solution from Agfa was to knock out all and do all overprints and traps in Apogee. We now have Heidelberg's PrintReady which will strip Quark's traps without "knock out all". However, I'm not sure if it'll strip Illustrator's traps out. Haven't crossed that bridge yet.

[sequoyah]

Thanks for the rsponse. I can't recall where the heck I came across the idea that trapping software removed traps from incoming ps files before processing, but it was long before there was a Heidelberg PrintReady. Seems like it was in the 90's.

Anyone else know about this?

Al Ferrari