Same colours display as different colours

[bowen192]

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?

[Bob_Niland · Accepted solution]

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]

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!

[Mike Wickham]

In maker.ini, try changing GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK=Printing to

GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK=None.