PDF Problems @ Printers - Export Methods?

I am working on a brochure that is mostly white text on black, with a few full colour pictures. There are also some manufacturer's logos that I inverted to make them white on black too, all in CMYK mode in PS. Though there were still black boxes around the logo's they were going on the black background so I thought I would be safe... I tried the "instant alpha" tool in Pages but the pictures are too low-res for this method to work effectively (it rounded all the points and made the images).
For the first proof I used the file>export>PDF>best method, and all looked good on my computer but the colours that were produced from the print shop (The UPS Store) looked appalling. Contrast was great on all the white on black text, but the colours were completely off. (however, there were no black boxes around the logos I was worried about, so that was a plus)
I did a fairly thorough web search of other print methods, and came across the file>print>pdf>save as postscript method that involved using Adobe Distiller to create the PDF rather than Pages. After getting a proof back from the print shop today I was pleased to see that the colours now appeared accurate on the proof but the black on black box problem around the logos I used now appeared and looked awful.
How do I fix? I'm frustrated and this matter is very time sensitive as there is supposed to be over 10,000 copies of this brochure printed by the weekend. Thanks in advance. : )

a brochure that is mostly white text on black, with a few full colour pictures. There are also some manufacturer's logos that I inverted to make them white on black too, all in CMYK mode in PS ... the colours were completely off.
The objects in the page are not colour managed coherently and correctly from the start. For instance, if you have Photoshop set up to disregard embedded ICC profiles, it will assign a default ICC profile for the colourant model of the object (a type PRTR Printer profile with data space CMYK for a CMYK colourant model object, and so forth), but it will not save out that object with the profile it assigned. This way you get what in the graphics model becomes 'deviceColor' meaning that the colourants are rendered by the numbers as there is no definition of the colours you intend them to form in the printing condition.
Classical case is of a graphic designer who misconfigures or disables colour management in a page layout application, places deviceColor objects, generates PostScript or PDF, and wonders why the gray balance, the tonal range, the highlight detail, the shadow detail - is different in each and every tonal image in the page. Always, always, always unify the colour management for the page. Capture and correct in a large gamut RGB working space. Place three component RGB with correctly embedded source ICC RGB profile in pagination, and convert into one and only one destination ICC CMYK profile for the intended printing condition.
The way you are working would produce similar problems in QuarkXPress and InDesign - it would not matter what make and model of page layout application you picked.
Hope this helps,
Henrik Holmegaard

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I am working on a brochure that is mostly white text on black, with a few full colour pictures. There are also some manufacturer's logos that I inverted in PS to make them white on black too, all in CMYK mode in PS. Though there were still black boxes around the logo's they were going on the black background so I though I would be safe... I tried the "instant alpha" tool in Pages but the pictures are too low-res for this method to work effectively (it rounded all the points and made the images).
For the first proof I used the file>export>PDF>best method, and all looked good on my computer but the colours that were produced from the print shop (The UPS Store) looked appalling. Contrast was great on all the white on black text, but the colours were completely off. (however, there were no black boxes around the logos I was worried about, so that was a plus)
I did a fairly thorough web search of other print methods, and came across the file>print>pdf>save as postscript method that involved using Adobe Distiller to create the PDF rather than Pages. After getting a proof back from the print shop today I was pleased to see that the colours now appeared accurate on the proof but the black on black box problem around the logos I used now appeared and looked awful.
How do I fix? I'm frustrated and this matter is very time sensitive as there is supposed to be over 10,000 copies of this brochure printed by the weekend. Thanks in advance. : )

a brochure that is mostly white text on black, with a few full colour pictures. There are also some manufacturer's logos that I inverted to make them white on black too, all in CMYK mode in PS ... the colours were completely off.
The objects in the page are not colour managed coherently and correctly from the start. For instance, if you have Photoshop set up to disregard embedded ICC profiles, it will assign a default ICC profile for the colourant model of the object (a type PRTR Printer profile with data space CMYK for a CMYK colourant model object, and so forth), but it will not save out that object with the profile it assigned. This way you get what in the graphics model becomes 'deviceColor' meaning that the colourants are rendered by the numbers as there is no definition of the colours you intend them to form in the printing condition.
Classical case is of a graphic designer who misconfigures or disables colour management in a page layout application, places deviceColor objects, generates PostScript or PDF, and wonders why the gray balance, the tonal range, the highlight detail, the shadow detail - is different in each and every tonal image in the page. Always, always, always unify the colour management for the page. Capture and correct in a large gamut RGB working space. Place three component RGB with correctly embedded source ICC RGB profile in pagination, and convert into one and only one destination ICC CMYK profile for the intended printing condition.
The way you are working would produce similar problems in QuarkXPress and InDesign - it would not matter what make and model of page layout application you picked.
Hope this helps,
Henrik Holmegaard

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Has anyone used PrintOutputController().export() method in ReportClientdocument to export Crystal PDF report to a JavaIOStream. I am getting an error when I try to export it using this method. The error I get is unable to connect RAS.rptappsrver followed by classcast unable to export to IXMLSerializable. Here is the code I am using.
Is there some setting I need to enable on the server to use the export function or any other idea will be appreciated?
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Is there some setting I need to enable on the server to use the export function or any other idea will be appreciated?
Edited by: Dilshad Ahmed on Nov 5, 2008 5:55 PM
Edited by: Dilshad Ahmed on Nov 5, 2008 6:09 PM

Here is the answer. After getting ReportClientDoc from factory we need to set the DatabaseController userid and password (if report on Crystal server is accessing oracle database as datasource). In addition we need to set parameters on the ReportClientDoc for reports and subreports before doing the the export.
Here is snippet of code: The code below is used to get ReportClientDocument and export it as PDF using bytestream.
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I've tried using the export to pdf, print save to pdf, print/preview - save to pdf.
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The only work around is to export it to word, save it as a pdf, which then the file triples in size from 1 MB to almost 4 MB.
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Let me know!
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
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