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This is a problem in which 3 Adobe programs (Photoshop CS, Pagemaker 7, and Acrobat Distiller) collaborate to mess things up, but I’ll start here. I’m using WinXP.
I publish in a publication that needs type to be 100% black. The type layout is complex enough that I do it in PageMaker (where I have defined it as 100% black), make a PDF of it, and open that in Photoshop, where I add the photo part. However, when Photoshop opens the PDF, it kindly converts the black to 69C 67M 64Y 74K. This would probably look better most places, but not where I am publishing. Is there any way I can get Photoshop not to change this?
An aside: previously, in PageMaker 6.5 and Photoshop 6, I could get it to stay 100% black if I used the "export PDF" function in PageMaker; but if I did a "print" to a .ps file, then opened Distiller and made the .pdf, the black would be converted when I opened it in Photoshop. So I don’t know which program is at fault…
Alternatively, is there a way I can change this 69C/67M/64Y/74K black to 100% black, without the result looking wimpy? I’ve played with the color channels some (e.g., adjust levels on the black channel and delete the info from the CMY channels), but I’ve never gotten satisfactory results.
I publish in a publication that needs type to be 100% black. The type layout is complex enough that I do it in PageMaker (where I have defined it as 100% black), make a PDF of it, and open that in Photoshop, where I add the photo part. However, when Photoshop opens the PDF, it kindly converts the black to 69C 67M 64Y 74K. This would probably look better most places, but not where I am publishing. Is there any way I can get Photoshop not to change this?
An aside: previously, in PageMaker 6.5 and Photoshop 6, I could get it to stay 100% black if I used the "export PDF" function in PageMaker; but if I did a "print" to a .ps file, then opened Distiller and made the .pdf, the black would be converted when I opened it in Photoshop. So I don’t know which program is at fault…
Alternatively, is there a way I can change this 69C/67M/64Y/74K black to 100% black, without the result looking wimpy? I’ve played with the color channels some (e.g., adjust levels on the black channel and delete the info from the CMY channels), but I’ve never gotten satisfactory results.
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