From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5627 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joop Susan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Color separation... Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:25:50 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20010913112550.4514.qmail@crux.private.off-line> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396208 3271 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:03:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:03:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5627 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5627 > At 12:15 PM 9/13/2001 +0200, Joop Susan wrote: > > >Do I have to live with being able to use ConTeXt (under Linux) for > >black-n-white PDF files only? The printing firm that I use only accepts > >color separated PDF files for porting my work to their Mac based systems... > > if this is a professional printing firm they'd better have the proper plug > ins. The idea behind pdf is that all rip specific things happen at the end. > So, separated pdf is something in the rip of for parallel ripping and > alike. Separation may depend on many things and it's not your > responsibility to compensate for color corrections. Is this a professional > printing house? > They say they are. We normally don't have problems with our black-n-white magazine. Looks like I have to call them again and ask them if they have the rip software. Let's see how professional they are... Joop PS. Printing house is "Combiwerk, Delft, The netherlands". J.