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Re: How to do RGB to CMYK conversion for PS output? [message #49317 is a reply to message #49314]

Thu, 13 July 2006 11:46

David Fanning
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Paul Van Delst writes:

> A colleague produced a colour X-Y plot for a paper and saved it to a regular old PS file.
> The editor mailed back stating that the file contains RGB colours and could we please
> create the file in CMYK colours.
>
> How does one do this? Using
> DEVICE,/CMYK
> produced exactly the same PS file.
>
> Doing,
> TVLCT,r,g,b,/GET
> CMYK_CONVERT,c,m,y,k,r,g,b,/TO_CMYK
> produced the appropriate c, m, y, and k arrays, but how does one "load" the CMYK arrays to
> be used? Doing
> TVLCT,c,m,y
> produced exactly what I thought would happen - no black.
>
> Any ideas?

Photoshop?

Cheers,

David

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		Re: How to do RGB to CMYK conversion for PS output? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 13 July 2006 12:55
		Re: How to do RGB to CMYK conversion for PS output? By: Karl Schultz on Thu, 13 July 2006 12:23
		Re: How to do RGB to CMYK conversion for PS output? By: David Fanning on Thu, 13 July 2006 11:46
		Re: How to do RGB to CMYK conversion for PS output? By: George N. White III on Sat, 15 July 2006 12:31

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