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bowen192
bowen192
Inspiring
May 29, 2012
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Same colours display as different colours

  • May 29, 2012
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Hello,

I have created various graphics which I have imported in to Framemaker.  They all have bits of our company colour (CMYK 100, 0, 0, 0) which all display fine.  If I create an object in Framemaker using a custom colour, it displays fine but when I pdf it, it’s a different colour.

Here is an example:

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/4907/20120529112907.png

The top band is the correct colour, but the text displays in a different shade.

The logo colour is correct, but the line and band on the right, which I created in Framemaker, is a weird blue.

Any ideas?

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    Correct answer Bob_Niland

    I presume you are on Windows.

    1. Frame has no color management, and never will, we are told.

    2. Windows trashes CMYK colors, even Vista SP1 and later with fake CYMK.

    If you must use CMYK, import all such objects as EPS. Mr. Bill's GDI doesn't mess with those.

    The other alternative is to pick an RGB color space, and set Distiller to tag all images for color management, specifying that space. Then work out what input RGB values create the desired final displayed RGB values.

    CMYK 100-0-0-0 may be out of gamut for reasonable RGB systems, esp sRGB.

    Getting color text to match other color objects is problematic. If you tag everything for color management, black text is rendered as composite black - slow, huge, and not really black.

    There are probably aftermarket tools for post-correction of colors in PDFs.

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    Mike Wickham
    Inspiring
    May 29, 2012

    In maker.ini, try changing GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK=Printing to

    GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK=None.

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Bob_NilandCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    May 29, 2012

    I presume you are on Windows.

    1. Frame has no color management, and never will, we are told.

    2. Windows trashes CMYK colors, even Vista SP1 and later with fake CYMK.

    If you must use CMYK, import all such objects as EPS. Mr. Bill's GDI doesn't mess with those.

    The other alternative is to pick an RGB color space, and set Distiller to tag all images for color management, specifying that space. Then work out what input RGB values create the desired final displayed RGB values.

    CMYK 100-0-0-0 may be out of gamut for reasonable RGB systems, esp sRGB.

    Getting color text to match other color objects is problematic. If you tag everything for color management, black text is rendered as composite black - slow, huge, and not really black.

    There are probably aftermarket tools for post-correction of colors in PDFs.

    bowen192
    bowen192Author
    Inspiring
    May 31, 2012

    Error7103 wrote:

    I presume you are on Windows.

    1. Frame has no color management, and never will, we are told.

    2. Windows trashes CMYK colors, even Vista SP1 and later with fake CYMK.

    If you must use CMYK, import all such objects as EPS. Mr. Bill's GDI doesn't mess with those.

    The other alternative is to pick an RGB color space, and set Distiller to tag all images for color management, specifying that space. Then work out what input RGB values create the desired final displayed RGB values.

    CMYK 100-0-0-0 may be out of gamut for reasonable RGB systems, esp sRGB.

    Getting color text to match other color objects is problematic. If you tag everything for color management, black text is rendered as composite black - slow, huge, and not really black.

    There are probably aftermarket tools for post-correction of colors in PDFs.

    As helpful as always, Error7103.

    Thank-you!

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