blurred shadows fixed??

Rick Gaskin rgaskin at wdt.net
Thu Aug 14 14:07:30 CDT 2008


curse you blurred shadow!!


Eric Tietze wrote:
> Will the color shift on other object also be fixed in the next major 
> release?  I have recently noticed that throughout a multi-page 
> document colors will change on most of the stuff if there is a soft 
> shadow anywhere in the document.  Example a blue bar of 100% Cyan and 
> 60% Magenta it will end up on every plate, even though it's on a 
> different page than the shadow, when sent to a pdf.  Remove the shadow 
> do everything else exactly the same and it's fine.  Tech support said 
> it's a known issue with no workaround at present.
>
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> Steve Mills wrote:
>> On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:14:23, Rick Gaskin wrote:
>>
>>> when we output such a doc to neg. or paper..black will appear on the 
>>> black separation....but the blurred shadow is also present on that 
>>> page. of course..the shadow is 100% cyan so it should not be on the 
>>> black sep what so ever
>>>
>>> cyan appears on cyan sep. but the shadow is also present on the 
>>> magenta sep.
>>>
>>> again...becuase its a cyan shadow..it should only be on the cyan 
>>> separation
>>>
>>> the same occurs with other colors and other separations
>>
>>
>> This is by design *at this point*. The blurred shadow is being turned 
>> into an rgb bitmap. That causes it to show up on all plates. This 
>> will not be changed until the next major version, because a very 
>> substantial section of code needs to be changed and months worth of 
>> new code has to be written just so the cmyk shadow can be handled in 
>> its native cmyk space. It's not something we can just stick into a 
>> bug fix release.
>>
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