[softwarelist] Re: duotone pictures in pdf

In mailtje <WUa5j2DTnERGFwJV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef je:

> In message <ec3e07e14e.arnold@arnold.?>, Arnold van der Heijden 
> <info@xxxxxxxxx> writes
> >In mailtje <4641AEB9.3080606@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef je:
> 
> >Well, uhh, no. For example: a duotone, starting with 100% black and
> >50% magenta in Ovation ends up with 80% black, 60% magenta, 40%
> >yellow and some cyan in pdf. We got the prints back from the printcompany
> >today and it look's ... nice (printing black as black and magenta as a
> >spotcolour), but it's so much different from the result in former days:
> >printing seperated postcript files.
> 
> Two things.
> 
> (1) Have you got Direct PostScript set in OPW Print choices

(Sorry for my late reply)

Yes.

> I think there may be another point. How is the PDF generated? Some PDF 
> printer drivers work using PostScript (Adobe for example) and can be 
> expected to use the CMYK colour model. Others are based around Windows 
> meta files (as are most printer drivers), if you use one of those then 
> the print file will be turned into RGB.

The PDF is generated with the Adobe PDF-printerdriver (to file). 

Thanks,

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Arnold
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