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Windows FM 7 still makes RGB PostScript

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From: Robert Lockett
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:29
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Is it just me or does this seem to others to be a glaring fault with Windows versions of Framemaker? What I'm speaking of is FM's inability to create a composite PostScript file in which colors are preserved as CMYK. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to produce a color FM file (I'm talking about Windows only) that doesn't translate every Framemaker and imported object into RGB--with the sole exception of imported EPS files. 

That means that commercial printers HATE Framemaker. We have to jump through hoops to re-translate RGB into CMYK. From some brief testing I did with Framemaker 7.0, it appears that this situation has not changed. 

Questions: Is my assessment of the basic problem correct? e.g., is there some clever way to get CMYK PostScript and/or PDFs from Win FM? 

Does it strike anyone else as odd (I'm trying to be nice here; many other words come to mind) that this situation still has not been addressed by Adobe? Especially since every other Adobe Windows program I know doesn't have this problem? 

I'm interested in readers' (and Adobe's) thoughts on this topic. 

RL
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