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aa330@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Neil Gould) writes:


>In a previous article, ehle@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ehle) says:

>>I posted a question a couple of days ago that I've gotten my answer
>>to.  I was confused about why a graphic wasn't printing in color on
>>a color printer, even though a color had been assigned to it on the
>>screen. I was working in Pagemaker 4.0.
>>
>>The answer is that the graphic was imported as encapsulated
>>Postscript, which means it cannot be altered. It may be able to be
>>scaled and cropped (I'm not sure, haven't tried it), but its integrity
>>within its borders can't be altered at all. To have a graphic that can
>>have a color assigned to it, the graphic must originally have been
>>scanned as a TIFF.

>I'm afraid that this may not be the correct answer. 

>The program must support color for this to work -- the .EPS file format is
>fine for printing color to color printers. For example, Ventura/GEM *will*
>print color .EPS files as color on color printers, though it has no facility
>to alter or even display the color .EPS file on screen. Ventura/WIN can dis-
>play & print color .EPS files, though it can't alter them.

>If the .EPS file is in color, it should print in color on color PostScript
>devices, since the file is simply incorporated into the general PostScript
>output generated by the program. For this to fail, the program would have
>to strip color information from the .EPS file. Similarly, for the file to
>be printed in a color other than it was created, the program would have to
>supply the color information within the .EPS file. Few programs will do 
>this, as there are many flavors of .EPS, and many valid structures for 
>defining an Encapsulated PostScript image.

And the question that I'm fighting  with since months : how working with EPS
files (particulary those made par CorelDraw who can make EPS with Pantone
colors) when your final job has to be print by a imagesetter, (with our 
PageMaker) ??? In my every day live Pantone settings in EPS ever gone...


Robert Baron
robert@bgcom.oligojo.login.qc.ca


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Robert Baron