Re: Printready 3.0 and DCS 2.0 Format
ONLY SOLUTION I'VE FOUND IS TO PRINT SEPERATED POSTSCRIPT TO PRINTREADY, DO THE TRAPPING ON THE FRONT END BEFORE IT HITS PRINTREADY. TURN THE RECOMBINER RIGHT OFF. YOU'LL GET A PSEUDO-COMPOSITE PDF FOR VIEW + PRINT BUT NO TRAPPING. (From my previous post).
This is still working great for me. Use it almost every day. Turn recombiner and trapper off in Printready, and make sure you uncheck REMOVE TRAPS in PREPARE sequence template under COLOR CONVERSION. Do your trapping up front in photoshop, quark, illus, whatever.
On the Mac side, I export a separated PDF out of quark using the EXPORT PDF and weed through your job options like you would Distiller. The job options here are a lot simpler than
Distiller options. I usually turn off compression options when messing around with DCS. It's a lot more reliable. Of course PDF out of INDD and ILLUS are almost flawless. I have seen some issues, but they are few and far between.
Printready does not do away with the postscript file. PS file will be handled by the Mac in the background when using EXPORT PDF option, and distilled on the fly based on Adobe drivers installed on the Mac.
End result is a PDF with no freestanding PS file. You still have the option of sending a straight postscript, PDF, EPS, or TIFF file to Printready, but i prefer to create the PDF on the Mac and dump that into Printready.
Gives me the option to inspect the PDF at the Mac level to make sure there's nothing funky going on with the PDF before it gets into my workflow.
My EXPORT PDF function in QXP7 works well for the most part. It's easier than printing out a Postscript file, and then distilling, or going right into Printready with it.
Of course, there's no reason anybody should be working in DCS, a decades-old file format according to a responder to my original post.
Probably a "studio" designer. Pretty plants around their workstation and track lighting. 2 year Graphic Communications degree on the wall.
LOL have fun.