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October 1, 2019
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separations on A2 sheets from either indesign or acrobat

  • October 1, 2019
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Before printing to a risograph i need to manually separate colors. Easy peasy you'd think, but no. I'm using mac (and the students I'm teaching mostly uses mac) and Riso have no driver to their A2printer for mac.

So ok, let's use Acrobat, and create a pdf, but mac does not allow pdf-printers to be installed so I cant use the easy to use separation-function in the advanced mode of Acrobat print. 

So ok, let's use Indesign print to file (making a ps file that i can distill to pdf). Sweet. No probs. Other than that I'm limited to the page sizes of whatever printer I have installed, none of which have A2 as an option and custom won't allow me to exceed said printers page size limit even tho I'm not ACTUALLY printing on it, just producing a file. And I cant have the riso driver. And i can't have the pdf-printer driver. I'm stuck.

 

What I want: CMYK (+ spot-color) separated pages on A2 paper produced from either Indesign directly or via a pdf in Acrobat, all done on a Mac. Can anyone help, is there a workaround that I don't see?

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    rob day
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 1, 2019

    Can anyone help, is there a workaround that I don't see?

     

    To directly print separations the printer it has to be postscript. To save and distill postscript separations with a custom page size you'll need to install the Adobe PDF 9.0 PPD. See https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/save-as-pdf-options-not.html

     

     

     

     

    ErasercutAuthor
    Participant
    October 1, 2019
    Perfect, you solved it! thank you so much!
    jane-e
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 1, 2019

    Hi Oskar,

     

    I’ve moved this thread from “Getting Started” to “Adobe InDesign”.

     

    ~ Jane

    Legend
    October 1, 2019

    Just a minute - why would you use Distiller to make a PDF from InDesign. No! Use Export.

    Legend
    October 1, 2019
    And separate from Acrobat !