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In QuarkXPress 8 on Mac OS X 10.4.11

The only way I can get a coloured TIFF (like a logo for instance) to output is to turn off the colour management... If I leave quark to manage the on-screen view, then the TIFF file will shift in colour when output to PDF. So for example if I have a coloured TIFF (background none for both the tiff file and container) on top of  a solid background colour, the background area of the TIFF file will appear slightly darker on output to PDF... So it appears Quark is actually colour managing the TIFF file and coverting it's colour when it presumably flattens the transparency, or whatever it does to b/w tiff files these days.

My output is set to 'As Is' so I don't see why this should be happning, any ideas?

 This is only one of the erratic things Quark is doing to TIFF files now

 J

 Is the background colour set with a name that uses PANTONE as a prefix?

Nope, in all the cases where the problem arose, the background of both the image and the container were set to 'none'... A fix we needed to do at press was to set the background of the image to the same colour to the object on which it was sitting and it worked, but this doesn't help when the TIFF is on top a teture or another image..and kind of defeates the object of a 1-bit tiff really...

 

J

sorry, by background, I meant the object that it was sitting on. Quark always has Color Management ON now, so its important that both top and bottom objects have the same color space and profiles otherwise during flattening you are going to get this effect. This never used to happen with bitmap tiffs but I'm guessing they now get a DeviceN color space which has to be converted on the lower object to a cmyk and its screwing up. You could try 8.1 and Native transparency but this might just shift the problem downstream.