Color management and Adobe Reader

Question

Will Adobe Reader ever be color managed with regard to monitor profile ?
(I've searched forum but didn't find "color management" . Nobody's interested ? Wrong colors all the time ? )

Answer 1

There is no question that some designers seriously abuse transparency. Just because there are 16 different available blend modes, for example, doesn't mean  a designer has to try to use all 16 such blend modes on a single page. This is akin to how some designers in a previous generation designed pages on which all 35 base fonts in early Adobe PostScript-based printers are used on a single page! However, it really isn't the role of the layout and design software to act like a nanny, trying to analyze whether a designer is using too much or otherwise abusing the transparency feature.
With reference to spot colors and transparency, spot colors are permitted to participate in transparency blending. The problem is generally that spot colors often have very unusual attributes in terms of physical opacity that transcend what we can show on a screen. The user can get into real problems if spot colors and transparency are improperly or imprudently used together. Often the problem is that the designer uses spot colors in their design, even though printing will be done completely with process colors that only approximate the typically out-of-gamut spot color, simply as a means of accessing "pleasing color" which is of course out of gamut for printing.
The bottom line is the need for training and education of users and proper preflighting of the content by both the designers and the prepress personnel. Nanny modes are typically useless and counterproductive since they often yield too many false positives, resulting in users turning off such modes.
          - Dov