How to see if images have spot colours in In Design 2...

[Artifice]

Hi All,

I have produced a whole magazine with In Design 2 and am having problems at the proofing stage.

My proofer says he cannot print the PDFs I have produced because he is getting a setcolorspace error.

Now I have done thr preflight check and I have no colours showing at all, only process colours. My proofer is asking me whether there are any spot colours in my images. All my images are cmyk colorspace and I need to know if I can checkwithin In Design if there is a problem with the coloor of my images.

Apparently this is a problem that can be dealt with easily in Quark?? I have no experience in Quark.

Any help appreciated.

Many thanks,
Mark J Foster

 

[jimoblak]

First of all, make sure that your printer is printing from Acrobat 5 as Acrobat 4 may do weird stuff with ID2-generated PDFs. You can output Acro4-compliant PDFs from ID2 but you might as well export Acro5 and have your printer use the latest and greatest free reader.

Any spot colors from placed images should appear in your ID swatch palette.

When exporting to PDF, check your ink manager and set all spots to process. Make sure that the color model that you export to is CMYK.

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