Spot Color Separations

[Patti]

What type of graphic files will work in Publisher 2002 for
spot color separations? I've had trouble in the past. I
need to be able to print hard copy (laser) for a mom and
pop print shop for offset printing. I've had some
problems with various files in the past...and a guy is
getting a graphic ready for me to use and I want to be
sure to tell him what type of file will work and what will
not.
Thanks.

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MSFT MVP]]

Hi Patti ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| What type of graphic files will work in Publisher 2002 for
|| spot color separations? I've had trouble in the past. I
|| need to be able to print hard copy (laser) for a mom and
|| pop print shop for offset printing. I've had some
|| problems with various files in the past...and a guy is
|| getting a graphic ready for me to use and I want to be
|| sure to tell him what type of file will work and what will
|| not.
|| Thanks.

And jpg, bmp, eps, etc. If you are getting some incorrect seps, see the
below article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281914&Product=pub2002

Publisher 2003 has dramatically improved it's color seps and output
including support for CMYK composites

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[Mike Koewler]

Brian,

Spot Color Seps! I've never been able to get spot colors from a jpg.

Mike

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MSFT MVP]]

Hi Mike Koewler ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| Brian,
||
|| Spot Color Seps! I've never been able to get spot colors from a jpg.

You were not aware of the sloppy work around?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=823572&product=pub2003prepress

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[McCabe's Minuteman]

Still doesn't help for raster.

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

In McCabe's Minuteman <[email protected]> posted:
|| Still doesn't help for raster.

It does cover Raster. It says convert to one color!
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[Patti Williams]

Would you believe this mom and pop shop does not even have
a computer?

-----Original Message-----
WMF is the easiest.
Surely even a mom and pop print shop can take a PDF file.

You may want to introduce the mom and pop print shop to

Serif PagePlus as it is the ideal program for a small
print shop.

 

[Ed Bennett]

A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from Patti

Would you believe this mom and pop shop does not even have
a computer?

If they haven't got a computer, I'd class them more as a copyshop than a
print shop
(Unless they've got some kind of computer-alternative-product-type-thing)

 

[Mac]

jpg? Spot Color?

I don't think so.

 

[Mac]

<<Publisher does not support spot colors in a non-Encapsulated PostScript
(.eps) picture, or in any raster graphic format (with the special exception
of Duotones as described in the "More Information" section). >>

a jpg is a raster format.


Bitmaps/raster/images (all pixel based rather than vector/equation/object
based) do not have the ability to preserve spot color information in a
manner that an appication can use it. Meaning...no spot colors from stuff
like this except by kludges such as recoloring within the application.

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

In Mac <[email protected]> posted:

||no spot colors from stuff like this except by kludges such
|| as recoloring within the application.

Exactly! As I stated in my other post.
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[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

In Mac <[email protected]> posted:
|| jpg? Spot Color?
||
|| I don't think so.

Sure can. Just not color seps, just as a single spot color (unless of course
you do a recolor edit in the dtp program).
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