My Green is Tan when PDFing...

[darrel]

I have a dusty green as a color in FH. It looks green on screen. Looks green
printed. But when distilled and/or saved as... a PDF, it turns tan. Why?

I've made the color a spot, a process, and an RGB color, yet it comes out
Tan each time in the PDF.

I have the same color in a GIF that is imported. That, too, comes out as
Tan. Anyone have any thoughts as to what is going on?

[John J Nosal]

Darrel,

One thing I think of is a possible issue with the Color Management System. Try changing your settings in the Preferences and see if you see a difference.

If you could provide the spec of the Green that you are using we could try it on my system and see what happens.

Also don't forget the Version of Freehand and the version of OS.

Regards,
John J Nosal
Product Team Liaison - FreeHand
Macromedia Tech Support

[darrel]

> One thing I think of is a possible issue with the Color Management System.
> Try changing your settings in the Preferences and see if you see a

difference.

I have it set to use Color Tables and to Color manage spot colors.

Turning it off brightens all of my colors in my document (close to what the
PDF shows)

> If you could provide the spec of the Green that you are using we could try

it on my system and see what happens.

It's a spot with CMYK values of 20, 8, 48 and 0.

I'll dig up the pantone book tomorrow and just pick an actual pantone color.
That make fix things.

> Also don't forget the Version of Freehand and the version of OS.

It's the version that crashes all the time. ;o) ;o) ;o)

(It's FH10/Win2k)

-Darrel

[darrel]

Alright, no matter what color space I choose, the green looks tan in the
PDF. However, it prints green, so I'm guessing this is a PDF isssue.

-Darrel

[Judy Arndt]

darrel wrote:

> Alright, no matter what color space I choose, the green looks tan in the
> PDF. However, it prints green, so I'm guessing this is a PDF isssue.

Do you want the green spot color to remain a spot color in a document with
CMYK colors? Do you want the green to be translated to CMYK?

Why are you making the PDF? Is it for online viewing only? Is it for
printing to an inkjet composite printer? Is it to send to a print shop for
printing separations for CMYK plus named spot inks?

Judy Arndt

[darrel]

> Do you want the green spot color to remain a spot color in a document with

> CMYK colors? Do you want the green to be translated to CMYK?

I want the green I have in FH to look green in the PDF on screen. This is
just an internal thing, so I'm not overly worried about print at all.

It's just an internap presentation of a new logo we're working on. We
haven't picked specific spot colors yet, and this is just to get buy-in. The
problem is that the greens are all turning tan, which isn't what we want.
I've made the color RGB, CMYK, and PANTONE yet it keeps turning TAN in the
PDF (I assume because I'm converting it to RGB during that process)

I'm pretty sure this is an issue in the PDF rendering...not really FH.

-Darrel