Preview Shift Color on Save?

Hi
Can anyone save me from this headache of a problem! After saving a postscript file from QuarkXpress 5.0 I open it in preview. All is good. But then when I save it out of preview as a pdf the color changes as soon as the save is complete. Why is this happening and how can I stop it from happening?
Very grateful for your help
Martin.

Hello mpaul73,
When you save a file as PDF in Preview I believe it is restricted to RGB definitions for colour. It is likely that your colour palette in Quark is different from the OS X Quartz profile which is why you see the change. Essentially, Preview is saving it using the colours that are available to it.
To fix it? To be honest I wasn't sure, so I starting searching around for any related resource.
Here is one that may help:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/21266.html
About halfway down it begins to discuss the colour problems associated with Preview PDFs and describes a way to use your own colour profile by opening the file in the ColourSync utility.
Let me know if it is any help.

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