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    CS2 Drop shadows are CMYK not black, help.

    Output - directly from ID to PDF. When I follow ps-distill route, no problems.
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    CS2 Drop shadows are CMYK not black, help.

    Thanks for looking at this one Andrew. If you're talking about the printers reg marks, it can't be that because none are being output to the PDF. No printers marks are being used at all. This has got to be something to do with flattening the drop shadow and blend modes which convert the page...
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    Starting 300 pg manual from scratch - need advice

    So you just want to output a greyscale version of your colour work for print? Have you tried printing the whole book to a local host printer (using PDF settings) as a composite greyscale output. This will give you a .ps file which you can then distill at whatever resolution you want. That...
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    CS2 Drop shadows are CMYK not black, help.

    Hi andrew. To clarify, when we preview the separations in Arcobat, there is no ink coverage on the CMY plates but they have still been produced within the PDF. All the ink is on the black separation. When we composite greyscale ps and distill, the PDF is produced in only black, no CMY...
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    CS2 Drop shadows are CMYK not black, help.

    Tried that just now. With drop shadow, Acrobat sees multiple plates. Without dropshadow, single black plate. Thanks for your asssitance, I do appreciate the help.
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    CS2 Drop shadows are CMYK not black, help.

    HI GUYS. Thanks for the suggestions. OK, Firstly, it doesn't matter what artwork you place in the picture boxes with the drop shadows. If you just have the drop shadows on a picture box without any content, we still get CMY plates. However, to answer you question, we're placing Greyscale...
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    CS2 Drop shadows are CMYK not black, help.

    I'm working on a Greyscale job so we just want to output to one plate but whenever we include a drop shadow, it outputs to 4 plates, even if the colour of the drop shadow is set to black. Is there any way of getting a black (single plate) output when I include drop shadows? Cheers, DG
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