Open PDF in Photoshop… ARG! HELP!

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Jen_Rose
Feb 26, 2004
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Working in PhotoShop CS, win2k.

I open the PDF… text is converted to 86% rather than 100% black. The result is terrible in printing… I’m messing with color settings but can’t get it to come up with a crisp black on the text.

Jenrose
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YrbkMgr
Feb 26, 2004
How was the PDF Created? Was the PDF in CMYK when created?
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Jen_Rose
Feb 26, 2004
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How was the PDF Created? Was the PDF in CMYK when created?

The problem comes up with any PDF, created in any format. Some are created by Quark, Indesign, distiller–it is clearly a problem with the color managment which I can’t seem to turn entirely off!

Jenrose
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LenHewitt
Feb 27, 2004
Jenrose,

Create a Custom CMYK profile with Black Generation set to maximum and load that as your CMYK working Profile.

With a bit of luck and a following wind, that should give you text at 0C, 0M, 0Y, 100K
JR
Jen_Rose
Apr 9, 2004
Create a Custom CMYK profile with Black Generation set to maximum and load that as your CMYK working Profile.

With a bit of luck and a following wind, that should give you text at 0C, 0M, 0Y, 100K

But I’m creating greyscale .tif files! We’re black and white only.

Jenrose
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LenHewitt
Apr 9, 2004
Jen,

But I’m creating greyscale .tif files! We’re black and white only.<,

Photoshop uses the ‘k’ component from the CMYK profile for greyscale files…
JR
Jen_Rose
Apr 9, 2004
But I’m creating greyscale .tif files! We’re black and white only.<,

Photoshop uses the ‘k’ component from the CMYK profile for greyscale files…

So the conversion uses the CMYK profile rather than the greyscale profile when rasterizing PDF, even if greyscale is selected?
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LenHewitt
Apr 9, 2004
I believe so, Jen

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