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FontWizardXT
extended EPS export for QuarkXPress
Version: 5.20
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Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Richard Oluszak Thursday, February 26 2004 @ 05:35 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: YES
I have noticed that Quark blends will not RIP correctly unless space is set to "As Is". Otherwise, an excellent product.
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Space (followup) - DavidRavenMoon
Okay.. I just did a series of test RIPs. I made up a test file in Quark consisting of a 4 inch picture box filled with a mid-linear blend of Pantone 3282 U and white. The PMS 3282 is a spot color (i.e. prints on its own plate).I saved the EPS files in four color spaces and formats: color/cmyk, color/as is, DCS2/As Is, and Color/DeviceN.
They were then RIP'ed using the RamPage 9.2 RIP at ROOM settings.
The results are...
color/cmyk- the blend is simulated to process - cmyk instead of spot.
color/as is- the blend prints as cmyk, but as a color negative!
DCS2/As Is- the PMS spot and black show up in the list, but the image is a blank white box.
And the Winner is... Color/DeviceN!
This successfully renders as a blend from Pantone 3282 U to white and back again!
Thursday, July 15 2004 @ 10:47 AM PDT
Space - Rob Giseburt
Just a quick note:A fix for the "stair-stepping" (or Banding) and conversion to CMYK in blends when making PDFs with Distiller can be found at:
http://www.heavyhosting.net/q6bf/
Wednesday, December 08 2004 @ 10:28 AM PST
Space - DavidRavenMoon
This seems to be a Quark bug. We use the RamPage RIP system here, and RamPage wrote an extension (RampageXT) that fixes this. Unfortunately it's a Quark 5 extension and they haven't released the Quark 6 version yet. Without the extension spot color blends separate as CMYK.Glad to know the As Is setting fixes this. I'll have to give this a try with RamPage.
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Thursday, July 15 2004 @ 09:54 AM PDT