[softwarelist] Re: Ovation Pro separations

In message <4e918bb90erkp@xxxxxxxxx>
          Richard Partridge <rkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've just been making colour separations from an Ovation Pro file
> which incorporated an Artworks file which itself incorporated a deep
> sprite, and found that all the separations came up in colour on that
> deep sprite, while being otherwise appropriate shades of grey.

This is an AWRender limitation. From the AWViewer ReadMe:

3.1. Limitations
================
For files *without* transparency, AWRender 2.05 has the following 
limiations:
  - [...]
  - Deep sprites (32k or 16M colours) are not rendered with colour
    separation - they are always rendered in full colour. This also
    means that external colour processing options (e.g., Picture =>
    Process in OvationPro or the Colour map feature in Impression) are
    ignored.
  - [...]

It happens to work for ArtWorks files *with* transparency because 
everything is flattened to a bitmap, which is rendered with support 
for colour separation.

I hope to remove this limitation eventually, but unfortunately, very 
few users have ever asked for it - nowadays, people do not use colour 
separations that much (even for professional printing).

Martin
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