Comments on: Acrobat 9: Output Preview and Color Conversion

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:57:13 +0000

Is there a way of converting CMYK black text and lines to 100%K ?

Using the change colour tool, the only way to I can find to change it, is to convert using greyscale 2.2 gamma. But this only gives me an 85% tint rather than 100% Any clues??

By: Adobe Acrobat 9 – Sweet Summer Upgrades | Prepress Pilgrim

Adobe Acrobat 9 – Sweet Summer Upgrades | Prepress Pilgrim — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:29:40 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Finally, a review on some features of Acrobat 9 that are really, really revelant to print professionals: Check out layersmagazine tutorial on the output preview and color conversion feature. [...]

By: Andrew Gordon

Andrew Gordon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:21:54 +0000

Question:

Is there a way to change the defult setting (currently Adobe RBG 1998) or eliminate any unwanted settings? We work in a pre-pres environment and only ever need 1 setting. Having to change the settings to view each document is becoming a real pain!
Yes, we already have the “keep last used setting” preference turned on – but it does not seem to make any difference.

By: Dave Bloch

Dave Bloch — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:51:20 +0000

My Output Preview shows a PDF properly, with colors. But when I print, I get only grayscale. The Canon MP150 printer driver has a PREVIEW mode that is showing grayscale, so it is definitely getting it from the Acrobat application. I have this problem with NO other CS4 applications, nor any other Windows application. It happens with ALL PDFs, whether opened in Acrobat or inside a browser window. This is a new (last week) CS4 installation and has been this way from the beginning. Any ideas?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:04:17 +0000

Ink limit is good if you are looking for excess coverage (over 280%) but what about the opposite?

I would like to quickly preflight a job by creating a HiRes PDF and and determining if any areas are below 5% dot (ie highlights) because in some printing (Flexo/Packaging) I have to make sure that artwork & quads don’t wash out or that gradients don’t end up with hard edges.

Any ideas?

By: Jeff Preboy

Jeff Preboy — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:00:26 +0000

Ink limit is good if you are looking for excess coverage (over 280%) but what about the opposite?

Any ideas????

By: Natalie Lewin

Natalie Lewin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:36:54 +0000

Hi there,

I have a question:

Since using Bridge in creative suite 3 whenever I create a postcript file and distill to acrobat 9 the pdfs are automatically opening in an RGB colour space (Advanced – print production – output preview). This is causing a problem as when i change the to the CMYK value it should be I find that colours that appear on each page of the pdf files give different split CMYK values on different pages.

Please help

Regards

Natalie

By: tim elwood

tim elwood — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:59:40 +0000

As a printer I find Rich Black text a will not register on press I find this article quite disturbing in its praise for rich black.
I don’t understand why Adobe don’t offer a convert Rich Black to greyscale.

By: chadthebad

chadthebad — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:07:52 +0000

I heard there was a way to convert a specific CMYK mix to a PMS Color, but I haven’t found a tutorial or anything that will lead me in the right direction. Any ideas?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:35:05 +0000

Ditto

By: Lukas Engqvist

Lukas Engqvist — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:01:28 +0000

Having a barcode in rich black (300+ ink coverage)??? Is that a good Idea?

By: Lukas Engqvist

Lukas Engqvist — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:59:28 +0000

I enjoy the colour features of Acrobat 9. But…
As a printer I am not too happy with the praising of rich black, especially at those values : ( I have seen too many printing jobs ruined by too much ink. Also the use of rich black in combination of negative texts is just not a good idea. Having the black text on the back page as rich black I would consider an error (common as it may be)…would have expected the same text to be over printed.

The really nifty thing about the colour converter is the ability to set convert colours rules by object type, and that could include text above a certain size or below a certain size.