Reply To: Ink Coverage

Hi David, I’ve created an AppleScript for dealing with the situations that I mentioned. We use an assortment of ink weighted CMYK images but we are beginning to use RGB images more and more in our workflow knowing that they are more versatile and can be converted on-the-fly to CMYK when we make the PDFs. The problem I mentioned is that sometimes we use transparency effects in Indesign and often have darkening vignettes over the top of images. We do this to make reversed out text more readable for example.

As mentioned, these areas can become over ink weight in the final CMYK PDF.

So anyway, you run this script after you have selected some objects that may cause the above problem. It will copy the selection, create an RGB PSD and save it in the nominated folder. Then it deletes the selected items on the Indesign page and replaces them with the RGB PSD placed as an image. Now the Indesign file is ready to be converted to a CMYK PDF without any risk of those items going over ink weight.

The script is here: https://www.drscripto.com/?p=668
I’d love to get feedback on this, there could be other reasons why people might like to convert Indesign objects into Photoshop documents!