How to Impove PDF Color Printing
Thanks to previous help when my printer went awol and wouldn't print anything from PS, the great suggestion was made here to try PDF. For the small emergency at the time, it workded just great, and I could print borderless. However, that was just black/white, and now I have a lovely poster in bright colors that are fine on another printer as long as it's not borderless or larger than letter size.
The poster is 11X17 and PDF will do it. A trial print in PDF showed poor colors, much grayer and the intensity of the plan is lost. I don't want to reduce the size or not have it borderless and have to use the other business printer even though the test colors were just fine. How do I get better color results using PDF? Thanks so much.....mm
If you want to parse through the PDF data structures and alter their colors you certainly can but there's no magic "invert" function for vector data anywhere. The closest you could come would be to generate an ICC profile that mapped each color to its compliment and tag the document with it, but that would only work if the PDF viewer used the profile correctly.
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See also for clues...
http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/theinside_wire_colorsync_andquartz
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How to make PDF form print multiple times depending on the amount of lines in the interface table?
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Place image in InDesign doc.
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