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Topic: RE: Freehand EPS (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Prepress and Print, Msg: 20270
From: Bob Greene
Date: 5/9/2001 05:56 PM

>From: Christopher
>The problem is that the Freehand EPSs that I am using have spot colors and
>those spot colors are made from a RGB palette and causes a problem when the
>PDF reaches the RIP. I have overcome the problem by using the Jaws PDF
>Creator, but now the new problem is with a Tiff that is placed in the file.
>I am getting a message that says "There was an error processing a page.
>Invalid Form." I have an e-mail going to Jaws Systems but I do not expect a
>reply for they are in Australia.

Your postings are extremely difficult to answer because you leave out
significant portions of the situation. For example, in this one, you don't
say whether the error is generated by Jaws PDF Creator or by Acrobat and at
what point it happened. Also was Jaws PDF Creator in the loop in the EPS
case? In your first post, you never asked a question, you really only
offered to provide information. I almost asked you where I can find
certain out-of-print books.

Also, why don't you make your spot colors defined in CMYK in Freehand. It
lets you choose a Pantone color, for example.

>As for Crackerjack, I do not see where it
>will help in what I am doing.

Your original email suggested that you might be trying to print.
Crackerjack helps you control output from PDF. If the colors are in RGB
and you use in-RIP separations, then the RGB to CMYK conversion happens
automatically with the current UCR/GCR settings. If the spot color is
defined correctly in the PDF, it will show up in the Crackerjack inks list
and you can get a separation for it. And because it generates different
PostScript, it might be more palatable for your PCC rip. In that case, you
would not have to go through these other gyrations.

Bob Greene
Lantana