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We are having a heck of a time with the new quark 7 color management. We recently upgraded to Quark 7 because of a font problem with CS3 illustrator files placed in quark. Now, the fonts seem to be working, but any CS3 illustrator file placed in quark ends up changing the CMYK values? Not just spot colors, but stuff that is just colored with CMYK values... I have tried every combination I can with the color management settings and nothing works. All I want to have happen is for quark to pass the cmyk values through, exactly as they are set in illustrator, I dont know why it is changing them... I noticed that in quark, if you look at the profile information window, any older illustrator files show CMYK for the color mode, but new CS3 files, are just blank, like it doesnt know what the file is? I have also played with the settings in CS3 with no luck. We produce a magazine and are having all sorts of color shifts in logos and map files, so I need to resolve this issue quickly... please help me out... thanks...

Try following these instructions - I was struggling too until it was explained better ...

Go to EDIT >COLOR SETUP,
Create a new source Setup: Define source Profiles for RGB and CMYK solid and image colors. Define a rendering intent for RGB to CMYK conversions. (e.g. the profiles should match your CS3 profiles)
Make sure CMYK to CMYK destinations is NOT checked

Then create a new output color setup: Choose “CMYK” as mode an your desired output profile (e.g. ISO Coated…).

Then switch to QuarkXPress Preferences and then to the color manager for print layouts. Choose the newly created source setup as a preference for all new documents.

Also choose your color output setup as softproofing setting.

Its also a good idea to set LogoSync as prefered CMM and to activate Black point compensation.

After all this steps you are ready to create a new layout und to start designing.

When you are on the way to create your printable PDF (PDF/X, best way is to “export”)
the most important thing is that you choose your color output setup in the colors tab when exporting.
In case you are not doing this all former steps have been worthless!

Then do the same for all your output setups, you can do this under EDIT > OUTPUT STYLES make sure the default PDF,EPS and PRINT styles all are using the Colour that you created in the output setup earlier, i.e don't use the quark supplied output setups