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Our shop has recently upgraded to PitStop Pro 10 and we are experiencing some issues regarding color conversion of customer provided PDFs. Many of these files arrive in color, usually RGB as they are generated by customers out of Word or Publisher, and are going to press as grayscale/black, so they must be converted before being sent to our CTP area.In our previous version of PitStop the generic actions (Convert color to gray and keep black text, for instance) accomplished this task very well, with only minor issues to clean up after running the action. These same actions in PS10 are causing several troubling issues for production. The primary one's we are experiencing are:- white (or zero color) backgrounds are converted to 1% gray- placed images within the PDF, color or grayscale, pick up lots of artifacts in the images that were not visible before converting, and were not detectable with the Inspector.Using the Edit Image tool to convert each image (to grayscale) in Photoshop, then running the PS action (for remaining text and graphics) does not cause the same issue, but is very time consuming for our production volume and workflow. Anyone experiencing these same issues? We've been unhappy with Pistop's color conversion since Pitstop 6. In Pitstop 4 and 5 we had it nailed and then they (Enfocus or Adobe?) changed something?We've been using the LittleCMS engine option with better results but not really good enough to avoid manual intervention.
We run an action list to remap the colors we can (0,0,0 RGB to 100 Black for example).We can do RGB-CMYK well enough but RGB-grayscale is still not good enough, it either comes out too dark or too light.Matt Beals pointed us in the direction of PDFToolbox Server for color conversion and it's tremendously better for handling office document color conversion 'automagically'. It also comes as an Acrobat Plug-in. We don't like pitstops color conversion either, for the most part i use the touch up object tool that is standard in acrobat, the image opens up in photoshop then i do what i need to do save and the image updates in the pdf when i go back to acrobat.
But sometimes that doesn't work, in that situation i will open the pdf file in photoshop and crop down to the image i want, do what i need to do and end up placing the image over the top of the original when i place the file into indesign- we don't print out of acrobat. For vector images i use the global color change, it works great.
