Color Display Issues

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5 total messages Started by Jeff_S_Meadows Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:52

#967

Author: Jeff_S_Meadows
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:52

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We are having issues with color not displaying properly in Framemaker 8 (Vista and XP). The color also prints wrong.

The specific color we are having problems with is CMYK breakdown 40c, 100m, 60y, 50k.
It shows and prints as black inside Frame, it should be a darker Magenta color.

Does anyone know of a solution to properly display and print?

Re: Color Display Issues

#970

Author: Sheila_Carlisle
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:11

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Jeff, what specific version of FM (from Help > About, the "pxxx" numbers).

Re: Color Display Issues

#973

Author: Jeff_S_Meadows
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:32

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8.0p277

Thanks,

Jeff

Re: Color Display Issues

#976

Author: Van_Kurtz
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:54

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Jeff,

Frame outputs only in RGB. If you specify a CMYK color, Frame converts it to RGB, using a simple formula for all CMYK specifications, before outputing it. If you have a CMYK color used inside a linked EPS file, Frame passes it through as is.

Somewhere in these forums is a very good discussion on this issue. I do not know where it is now. Try searching on CMYK.

Van

Re: Color Display Issues

#988

Author: Michael_Mueller-Hillebrand
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:44

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If the original color was created based on one of the "Library Colors", like Pantone or so, the situation is different.

Inside the maker.ini, section [Preferences], you'll see a setting

GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK=Printing

Try setting this to

GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK=None

and restart FrameMaker. Of course, the color you specified is indeed very dark and puts a lot of ink on the paper, you might just try to adjust the values?

- Michael

[Edit: There are two maker.ini files, one in the program folder, the other in your profile directory!]

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