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- Subject: Re: postscript separations
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.021728.2728@mtroyal.ab.ca>
- From: hovind7206@mtroyal.ab.ca
- Date: 14 Sep 92 02:17:28 MDT
- References: <1992Sep10.012128.16339@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Organization: Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta
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- In article <1992Sep10.012128.16339@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, lewin@brokaw.lcs.mit.edu (Jonathan Lewin) writes:
- >
- > Hi, I'm the author of a scientific textbook, and I did all the figures (some
- > 600) in Micrografx Designer 3.0, and the publishers can't seem to print
- > them properly I'm desperate -- any help at all is really appreciated.
- >
- > The problem is in generating color separations on Micrografx Designer 3.0?
- > When Designer DRW files are used to generate 4-color (plus 1 spot)
- > separations as Postscript EPS files, bit mapped patterns are lost.
- > When the file is printed on typesetting equipment, what appears in the region
- > that should contain the bit mapped is a pattern of large dots. The same
- > problem occurs irrespective of which bit mapped pattern is being used.
- > The files can be printed perfectly well on lasers in black and white or
- > in color, so the problem appears to be specific to the generation of
- > separations. One possibility is that the 4 screens are being
- > rotated with respect to another in the region of the bit map (the angles for
- > the separation are left at the default values when the postscript files are
- > generated, since otherwise the rest of the drawing will not reproduce
- > properly when printed). Is there any way within Designer to generate
- > postscript files for 4-color separations that will allow bit maps to print
- > properly, or is there any other program that could take Designer postscript
- > output and manipulate it to generate effective separations?
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- There is a product available called Publisher's Prism from Insight Systems Inc.
- 10017 Coach Rd. Vienna Virginia that should solve your problem. It is a windows
- product that will take any PS file and produce seperations. Will the word any
- bothers me...I have used it to produces 3 color magazines with only minor
- problems. Bitmaps will chew up processing time on the imager but they seem to
- work ok. The PS files that I used were created in PageMaker 4 so hopefully this
- will all still hold true with Designer. Good Luck
-
-
- Wade Hovind
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