Using PDFs as images in Quark
Pete (52 pencils) | Wed, 2005-11-16 21:03Any designers/production people out there who import PDFs for use in Quar/ID layouts? I figured I've give it a shot - here at work, we sometimes use miniature covers of magazines or newsletters in our promo pieces, and it's always the 'Save Page as EPS' method that's put to use...
However, I got tired of getting the 'font missing' warnings when printing layouts with those .eps files in them. I thought I'd give PDFs a whirl- they look good on screen, print out fine, but the only glitch is that they show up as being RGB files when I run my preflight tool on the Quark layout.
I ran a PDF preflight checker on the files themselves in Acrobat, and absolutely nothing shows up as 'non-CMYK' - images, colors, etc, etc...I also exported the Quark layout as a PDF, and that printed fine too. No errors, came up as X-1A compliant.
I guess it's fine...?
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Have to be honest, I've rarely used PDFs in Quark layouts (always EPS or TIF), but if your PDFs are definitely correct and CMYK, I don't understand why it would show them up as being RGB.
Is there an extension missing from XPress that should be reading the colour profiles? (or is there one available anybody??) I always export my Quark layouts as PDF and then preflight them in Acrobat Professional, it's more reliable IMHO.
Not sure if it has anything to do with Quark or my preflight tool - I use GLUON's 'QC' plugin, and their 'QC Collect' plugin for - well, you know.
I actually export the files to Postscript from Quark and ID, and run them all through Distiller. Everyone I talk to in 'the biz' tells me I should do it this way, so I listened...
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