Color Management Settings Between Quark & Photoshop

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Aug 21, 2004
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Hi Everyone,

Had a couple of quick burning questions I was hoping for some input on:

1)When moving graphics such as colored backgrounds from PS to Quark, should I have the color management systems set on either or both?

2)When viewing a Quark Document in Acrobat 6 Pro, is there a way to use the new feature "Separations Preview Available" in order to reconcile the visual differences between colors created in PS and brought into Quark versus colors created directly in Quark itself?

Thanks in advance,

Scott
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WharfRat
Aug 21, 2004
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wrote on 8/21/04 6:34 AM:

Hi Everyone,

Had a couple of quick burning questions I was hoping for some input on:

1)When moving graphics such as colored backgrounds from PS to Quark, should I have the color management systems set on either or both?
2)When viewing a Quark Document in Acrobat 6 Pro, is there a way to use the new feature "Separations Preview Available" in order to reconcile the visual differences between colors created in PS and brought into Quark versus colors created directly in Quark itself?
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Turn off Color Management in Quark
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Throw the extension away
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Empty the trash
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Place .eps files into Quark – not .tif files

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tacitr
Aug 22, 2004
Turn off Color Management in Quark
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Throw the extension away
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Empty the trash >><BR><BR>

Good advice. Quark’s color manglement…err, management sucks like a weasel getting sucked into a jet engine, with some additional suck on the side.

Place .eps files into Quark – not .tif files
As long as you aren’t using Quark’s color manglement, TIFF images work fine in Quark. You should use EPS files if you need some special functionality of EPS (such as spot color) or you’re using a clipping path, and you must take care never to put a grayscale or color TIFF in a Quark box with a fill of "none," but other than that, TIFF files work great, and are smaller than the same image saved as an EPS file.

I use TIFF files daily in Quark, for everything from brochures to billboards to catalogs to annual reports.

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