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I use QXP 5 on my G4 in Classic mode. Most of my images are saved as tiffs. When importe to QXP they look terrible unless I turn on Color Management.

Will saving my documents this way then making PDF's for my printer change the printing results in any way?

Also when I have done this and later tried to reopen a file that has been saved with color management on I get a message that the color PROFILE does not excest. It has also caused documents to crash. So now I am back to ugly tiffs in Quark.

HELP
MK :roll:

hi

did you turn on 24bit TIFF preview (quark>preferences)?

we usually save colorimages as EPS (with or without compresion but always with JPEG preview instead of 8-bit preview).
i find this gives a very predictable on-screen preview in quark. Also: when importing many tiffs the quark document "grows" rapidly (in Mb) and not with EPS.
Only drawback: printing is done with full res EPS images, so takes more time. But producing PDF special for laserprinting (lower DPI without adjusting color) works fine for me.

ralph

M-Quark-K

don't worry about the preview in Quark, it's not encouraging I know, but my tiffs have always printed correctly despite the dayglo look on-screen. I trust their appearance in Photoshop, and am getting used to seeing nasty things popping into picture boxes when I import into Quark.

I have also recieved counsel from my prepress houses not to use the image editing functions in Quark but to do every thing in Photoshop, except moderate scaling down of images (to 60% not less).

tiff or eps ? well six of one, half a dozen of the other, but you can get a good preview of any image you import if you have the full res preview plug-in (select image box; menu block > preview > then take your pick) but viewing images in full res will make the programme run more slowly.

You can leave the color management functions on. It's not really changing anything about the file. It is however acknowledging the presence of profiles in your images (or assuming them).

I would counsel against saving images as eps. You increase the file sizes by a third or better. The presence of raster eps files also significantly slows Quark down. Only use eps formatting for images with clipping paths, vector type, or spot colors.

Discuss these issues with your service providers. They may have other preferences.

rich:

I would counsel against saving images as eps. You increase the file sizes by a third or better. The presence of raster eps files also significantly slows Quark down. Only use eps formatting for images with clipping paths, vector type, or spot colors.

Discuss these issues with your service providers. They may have other preferences.

FWIW, my printers ask for artwork as .eps (for CTP or imagesetter) whenever possible. Diff'rent strokes and all that, I guess!

peace,
Linda

Thanks RB, Kathy, Rich and Linda. Conflicting tips but all helpful! I will try it all.

Marta