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I echo Sean's suggestion that you try adding color by using referenced eps files that use the cmyk color. Frame passes these through to Distiller as is.

There is another strategy to add color within FrameMaker; however, I cannot find a reference to the information that I used to do this. FrameMaker allows you to add custom inks to the application with an acf file. You define the custom colors in the acf file in both cmyk and rgb. So you can specify the rgb equivalents as they come from Photoshop or Illustrator, which are different than the ones used by Frame.

Note that the acf file specifies rgb colors in 16 bits, not 8 bits. The formula I used was

16-bit component = (8-bit component * 256) + 255

The 8-bit component values are the ones you got from Photoshop.

The acf file is added to the fminit > color folder within the FrameMaker programs folder.

I tested this in my case by importing a square eps file painted in the cmyk color. Then overlapped it with a square created in Frame and painted with the custom rgb color. Printing on my color laser printer showed negligible difference. We have yet to print to an ink printer.

I know this is vague, but maybe someone else can provide the link to a better explanation. THere might be something about this in the Frame help files.

Good luck,
Van