Comments on: Acrobat 9: Output Preview and Color Conversion

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:45:37 +0000

Use Acrobat’s Preflight Tool, click on the wrench (fix-ups) then search for convert to grayscale or b/w.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:39:25 +0000

Acrobat seems a bit overkill for a simple conversion job. Please, have a look at http://www.color-converter.com where you’ll find two useful utilities. Color Converter encodes a color from one color space into another (e.g. RGB to RAL, CMYK, XYZ etc). CC File Converter for Mac OS X lets you assign a new color profile to an existing file. Conversion between different file formats is possible too.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:57:13 +0000

Is there a way of converting CMYK black text and lines to 100%K ?

Using the change colour tool, the only way to I can find to change it, is to convert using greyscale 2.2 gamma. But this only gives me an 85% tint rather than 100% Any clues??

By: Adobe Acrobat 9 – Sweet Summer Upgrades | Prepress Pilgrim

Adobe Acrobat 9 – Sweet Summer Upgrades | Prepress Pilgrim — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:29:40 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Finally, a review on some features of Acrobat 9 that are really, really revelant to print professionals: Check out layersmagazine tutorial on the output preview and color conversion feature. [...]

By: Andrew Gordon

Andrew Gordon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:21:54 +0000

Question:

Is there a way to change the defult setting (currently Adobe RBG 1998) or eliminate any unwanted settings? We work in a pre-pres environment and only ever need 1 setting. Having to change the settings to view each document is becoming a real pain!
Yes, we already have the “keep last used setting” preference turned on – but it does not seem to make any difference.

By: Dave Bloch

Dave Bloch — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:51:20 +0000

My Output Preview shows a PDF properly, with colors. But when I print, I get only grayscale. The Canon MP150 printer driver has a PREVIEW mode that is showing grayscale, so it is definitely getting it from the Acrobat application. I have this problem with NO other CS4 applications, nor any other Windows application. It happens with ALL PDFs, whether opened in Acrobat or inside a browser window. This is a new (last week) CS4 installation and has been this way from the beginning. Any ideas?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:04:17 +0000

Ink limit is good if you are looking for excess coverage (over 280%) but what about the opposite?

I would like to quickly preflight a job by creating a HiRes PDF and and determining if any areas are below 5% dot (ie highlights) because in some printing (Flexo/Packaging) I have to make sure that artwork & quads don’t wash out or that gradients don’t end up with hard edges.

Any ideas?

By: Jeff Preboy

Jeff Preboy — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:00:26 +0000

Ink limit is good if you are looking for excess coverage (over 280%) but what about the opposite?

Any ideas????

By: Natalie Lewin

Natalie Lewin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:36:54 +0000

Hi there,

I have a question:

Since using Bridge in creative suite 3 whenever I create a postcript file and distill to acrobat 9 the pdfs are automatically opening in an RGB colour space (Advanced – print production – output preview). This is causing a problem as when i change the to the CMYK value it should be I find that colours that appear on each page of the pdf files give different split CMYK values on different pages.

Please help

Regards

Natalie

By: tim elwood

tim elwood — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:59:40 +0000

As a printer I find Rich Black text a will not register on press I find this article quite disturbing in its praise for rich black.
I don’t understand why Adobe don’t offer a convert Rich Black to greyscale.