I´ve got it: The main frame had a text size. It shouldn´t. I put it on 0,1 pt and now it´s fine. ... View more

My questiion is, why do you anchor you one text frame after the other? I don't see any need for it. But why this complicated method? why? By @Willi Adelberger   Thanks Willy!   Okay, you asked me several times so I'll try to explain 🙂 It is a table of contents. I know there are many other ways to deal with this. But in this particular case I need separate “blocks” that can be quickly changed in order and its background color manually: via drag and drop.   ... View more

Hi Brian that sounds like a way I can start. 🙂 Thanks   ... View more

Hi markd66074679 What are your export-settings? ... View more

Hallo Axel.   thanks for your effort. In the profile you set the output intent to PSO Coated v3. Is it correct?   ... View more

If I check the page items with AcrobatPro’s Object inspector, they all inspect as DeviceCMYK—no profile Hi rob day   I did a test and gave the image (upper half) an SC paper profile with Photoshop:                           When I checked in Acrobat, it still didn't show a profile. Is it possible that you can't see it at all at this point?   ... View more

Dear contributors The initial question in this thread was whether the onboard tools from Adobe can achieve qualitatively comparable results as the third-party software from callas. Many responses have been received that delve deep into the topic. Thanks for that!
Unfortunately for me, at a certain point I reach the limits of my knowledge when it comes to the physics of color management. Also due to lack of time and lack of influence on the entire workflow, it is not in my hands to change basic processes (such as the exclusive use of RGB images). Therefore, I can unfortunately not implement some well-intentioned advice. What really helps me here is a "brave", concrete answer as to whether my settings are objectionable in this form when exporting to InDesign, or whether they are correct (see attached image in my first post). They look logically correct to me, but unfortunately sometimes you don't see everything yourself. So I take from rob days' first answer that they are probably correct. It's good. Also, his answer confirms my suspicion that you don't actually need any additional software. The only thing I miss here is the (automatic) identifier "FOGRA40". I don't know how important that is. The printer's specifications require it. It can be entered manually in the export settings under "Identification of the initial condition". This has no effect, it is only displayed. The only reason I haven't marked the answer as correct so far is that I'm still unsure overall. As described, I get different results with the two methods. See also my 4 attachments with the color samples. That led me to my next question: about the settings in callas. These are numerous and require a lot of expertise. But I don't want to go into that any further now. As I noticed, only a few people in this forum have experience with the pdfToolbox. Nevertheless, I have attached a screenshot of the profile I created in callas. 
Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this. regards ... View more

I missed the link before. Nice tool! Thanks. ... View more

All right, I see. I need to find some time to review and adjust those hundreds of images (mainly PS docs). ... View more

If you care about matching appearance then you would have to use Edit>Convert to Profile... rather than Edit>Assign Profiles...   That´s good hint. Placed images do not get converted, so make sure any placed images are RGB with embedded profiles, so the images are converted from profiled RGB to document CMYK on the export.   I'm afraid I can´t avoid having different kind of pictures (RGB and CMYK). There is more than one source for the photos. The correct conversion should therefore take over the application when exporting or at the latest when profiling with callas. Maybe this is why we use complementary software (?).  😞 ... View more

They may have similar values, but you can clearly see a visual difference. And more importantly, the printer asked for profiling. No choice. 🙂 ... View more

Thank you Uwe for your hint! ... View more

I have defined custom CMYK colors in InDesign and use them for elements on the cover and content pages. Only when I export the documents (content and cover are different documents) do they get their own profile. Or at the latest when I do it with the pdfToolbox (depending on how I will use it later). The profile I'm using I downloaded from: https://www.color.org/registry/SC_paper_eci.xalter ... View more

Hello Uwe. OK, I did. Thanks. Nevertheless, I do not reject an answer in this forum. 🙂 ... View more

Hi Rob. Sorry for my late reply, I had to be in the office at my true color monitor to check a few things before replying. That sounds logical for me. It could be the easiest and also the fastest way to get ready-to-print documents. We've been using this (callas pdfToolbox) plugin for a long time (before I was here) and I'm wondering if we could do without it. On the other hand, I hoped to get a deeper insight into color management by comparing both methods. As an example, I prepared 4 sheets with different output: 1. without profile and without color converting 2. do all the work with InDesign PDF export tool 3. one-Step-Job in callas (conversion with an already created profile) 4. two-step job in Callas (first the color conversion tool, then profiling with PDF X4)   And the result amazes me. Especially between point 2 (which is how I would like to do it) and 4 (which is how we have been doing it all along). The biggest difference in the CMYK colors is usually seen in yellow. The colors become "warmer" due to the profiling from InDesign. For the paper we use (SC paper) that might not be the best. The paper itself has a warm note. Strangely there are no color shifts when converting RGB colors.   So, I´m confused. 😞   ... View more

Hello rob This is what I did: separate sheets with different profiles. I'm just wondering if you get the same result when exporting with profiles in InDesign and with the Callas application. It really doesn't look like it on my screen. ... View more

Hi Mark   Thanks for the approach. Good idea. I'll work my way into it. 🙂     ... View more

Hi Uwe.   these paragraphs always come under each other or as a single line. --- Eine ID-Datei sende ich dir per PN. --- ... View more

Hello guys.   Thank you for help. They are both very powerful tools. And I would use it BUT: There are more than 300 items in the catalog that I need to change. I wanted to do it with a shortcut (keyboard shortcut to the script). Without the need to change any options. Do you think the script I started could do that? Of course with the appropriate correction in the script. If you say it's not possible, then of course I have to do it differently. ... View more

So cool! It's going great now. Thank´s Peter. ... View more

... and my next question would be if it´s possible to create an array (expandeble) with the colors and insert it in the loop. something like:   var myDoc = app.activeDocument; var mySelection = myDoc.selection[0]; var farben = [['Rot'],['Blau'],['Grün'],['Schwarz'],['Weiß'],['Gelb'],['Orange'],['Braun']]; scriptTimer(); function scriptTimer(){ app.findGrepPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '\\d{6}.+?\\t\\K\\b('+farben+')\\b' ; colours = mySelection.findGrep(); for (i = colours.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { colours[i].contents = colours[i].contents.toLowerCase(); } } app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing; app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;   ... of course, this didn´t work. ... View more

I'm sorry for being late. But the flu made me inoperative. 🙂   That was a good hint Peter. Thanks. But take a look at the result...   before:             after:               The second word was not changed. If I fill it up with more lines, only in every second paragraph (line) the word will be change.     #UPDATE: It was the ^ (at the begining of the paragraph) I don´t know why the algorithm did´n like that. I would be more relaxed if the expression would be as exact as possible. 🙂 ... View more

I don't wanna push anybody... 😉 ... View more

I meant "paragraph" sorry!     "...Poste diesen Algorithmus..." --> siehe oben ... View more

  - generate an array (I can expand if I need) of color names - search in a loop for paragraphs (only those beginning with 6 numbers) which contains a word (color name) after: (^\d{6}.\t) and before (~y€\s\d{1,},\d{2}$) --> every line contains only one color at that place (sometimes connected with a hyphen, unfortunately) - if the word is at the list (array) and first character is upper case --> change it to lower case I hope the explanation is understandable 🙂 ... View more

I think that wouldn't work Uwe. Can't imagine how to change with a GREP within a paragraph style only the first character of certain words from upper case to lower case. There are a lot of colors I have to change occasionally but also other words (like silver, in german Silber) with capitalized first letter. So I have to do that with a script including a list of colors have to be changed. My idea was to do the changes depending on the first 6 characters in each line: every line with 6 digits at beginning is a candidate. And there is my problem, I don´t know how to select. ... View more