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• • October 31, 2013 at 1:31 pm #66056
    Anonymous

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    I’m Using CS5. I can change the color of the ‘Paper’ swatch to match the color pink I’m using for a special newspaper section. It’s very handy, and in View/Overprint Preview the printed paper looks quite close to my design. However, I can’t figure out how to publish a PDF that integrates the same paper color. I can change the paper color in Acrobat, but photos and graphics overprint, i.e.; white shows as white, which is not how the paper version looks. It seems like this would be a common use, but I can’t find anything on the web addressing this.

  • October 31, 2013 at 3:06 pm #66058
    David Blatner

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    This isn’t easy, unfortunately. I think you could likely do it if you have a CMYK profile for your output: pink paper and cmyk inks on that pink paper. But you’d have to find someone to make you a cmyk profile, then you’d install it, then you could target it, I believe.

    • November 4, 2013 at 12:39 pm #66086
      Anonymous

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      Thanks David, It should be easy, it just isn’t. I can see exactly what the output will look like in Overprint Preview in ADOBE InDesign, it doesn’t seem like such a stretch to publish this view in an ADOBE PDF that is meant for online viewing or proofing.

      One solution is to output my pink-paper newspaper as JPEGs, but I lose search ability and the size becomes prohibitive for a 16-to-40 page document even shrunk to legal-size paper.

      I really don’t care how accurate the color of the paper is, it’s not consistent in real life. Paying for a service to create a ICC profile for just one color paper is not going to happen.

      I guess there are very few users who would need this, but we publish our newspaper in print and online using PDFs to send to the printer, and to convert into an online flash format that’s supposed to look like the newsprint version.

      Oh well, thanks again!

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