faint photos in PDF

[Jeff_Norman@adobeforums.com]

I am using Distiller 3.0 on Mac G3 (beige) OS 9.1. All the photos in the PDF that I created from a PageMaker 6.5 file show up faint, although the text is fine. Whether creating a PDF directly in PageMaker or creating a PostScript file in PageMaker and then distilling it in Distiller, in each case, the photos (originally grayscale TIFF files) come out faint. Any idea how to fix it?

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

What distiller job settings are you using? Are you using Distiller 3.0
or that latest and greatest Distiller which was either 3.02 or 3.0.3 I
forget?

Mike

[Jon_Bessant@adobeforums.com]

Another thing - Acrobat 3 shipped with an RGB ppd for Acrobat Distiller
and didn't even give job options - just one screen (life was fun back
then eh!) ...

In other words, all your content is *probably* RGB and it's Pagemaker
performing the colour conversions ...

If you manage to upgrade to Acrobat 5 (ebay of such like) then you
should be OK providing you choose a setting such as PRESS ..

Jon