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Subject:Re: color seps from Word From:"Ivie, Guy" <GuyI -at- CORPMAIL -dot- FOLLETT -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 27 Mar 1997 15:36:00 PST
How are you bringing your tables from Word into PageMaker? Are you
applying the text color in Word, or in PM?
I'm assuming you're using a 10% screen of black (in order to get grey)
and the text is also black. If that's true, there's no need to run
separate films for the screens and the text. They'll appear together on
the black plate (assuming you're doing a 4-color job). If, for some
reason, you really do want the text on a separate film, assign it a spot
color. You'll wind up with 5 films (the 4 process films plus the spot
film that has the text on it). I'm not familiar with Quark, but I know
that PageMaker will handle the separation without any hitches. You
shouldn't need to be "hiding" the text, and if you assign it a spot color
in PageMaker, there is no reason for the document's length to change.
As an aside... I was surprised to see that you're running a 133-line
screen on a web press. That must be high-grade paper, and an awfully
large print run.
If you want to move this discussion offline, feel free to contact me
directly.
Guy Ivie
Follett Campus Resources
River Grove IL
GuyI -at- corpmail -dot- follett -dot- com
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From: TECHWR-L[SMTP:TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU]
Sent: 27 March 1997 10:28 am
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: color seps from Word
Sometimes in the heat of battle . . .
I wrote: "How do I separate the type from the words?" when what I meant
to
say was "the screened columns from the words" so film can be made.
FYI: I work with QuarkEXpress and PageMaker for output to film, not Word.
>Does anyone have any experience outputting to laser color seperations
from
>Microsoft Word 7 on Windows 95?
>
>We have this job that is slated to run on a web press at 133 line
screen.
>It was created with tables in Word and every other column is screened at
>10%. How do I get the type to print apart from the words. When I try to
>change the type color to hide it, the length of the screens change and a
>five page job reflows to eight pages. I'm stumped.
>
Russell Kilday-Hicks
Production Specialist
SFSU Publications Office
415/338-3008 * rkilhick -at- sfsu -dot- edu http://www.sfsu.edu/~pubaff
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