Simply stated, you CANNOT create a composite CMYK PDF file
or a PDF file with spot colors directly from the Windows version
of FrameMaker. Why? It outputs via GDI in a manner similar to
standard Windows applications in a totally RGB world. You can
"fix" the RGB to CMYK problem somewhat in Acrobat via use
of Quite Software's Quite a Box of Tricks plugin (or other
plugins that may be available to perform similar miracles),
but there is no way to retrieve spot colors. The only way
to get spot colors out of FrameMaker Windows is to create
separations from FrameMaker directly. But that provides
preseparated PostScript (ironically with RGB instead of
grayscale, again due to the Windows imaging model), not
PDF.

- Dov


At 5/24/00 09:44 AM, Anderson, Bob wrote:
>Speaking of problems with FrameMaker: does any one know
>how to make FrameMaker produce spot color PDF files?
>
>i.e. Whenever Frame writes to a composite PostScript file, it converts
>all spot color text to process CMYK. The output PDF will be printed
>on DocuColor for short runs and color separated for long runs.
>
>I have an arduous workaround using a Mac, but the clients have PCs.
>
>Thanks,
>Bob Anderson
>
> > ----------
> > From: Kevin Mack
> > Reply To: Acrobat Talk
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 9:59 PM
> > To: Acrobat Talk
> > Subject: Re: O Adobe, Adobe! What a heartbreak company you are!
> > [REVISITED]
> >
> > We print customers' files. Most of my customers use MSWord even for 500
> > page
> >
> > technical manuals.
> > In the past I recommended FrameMaker to them. I even had a NFR copy
> > (version
> >
> > 5.0) to demonstrate it.
> >
> > But Adobe's "body language" indicates to me that they are not serious
> > about
> > long-term support for Frame, so I no longer advocate FrameMaker.
> >
> > I encourage (with varying degrees of success) my customers to produce
> > PDF's
> > but as most Framers will understand, anyone using MSWord for 500p docs
> > often
> >
> > will not have the skills to produce clean PDF.
> >
> > In-Design is not ready for industrial-strength documentation, PageMaker
> > will
> >
> > never be, Ventura was and perhaps still is but no-one uses it, Quark ???,
> > Interleaf ???
> >
> >
> >
> > Adobe has an opportunity to capture a significant Corporate market with
> > FrameMaker if they support it, include it in their promotional offers, and
> > show the market that FrameMaker has a future in the Adobe product range.
> >
> >
> > So while Hedley's posting may have been off-topic it is still relevant I
> > endorse his sentiments entirely.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Kevin Mack
> >
> >
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