AHubb Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 (edited) We overlay color on our rendered site plans, and have trouble with the printed color quality when the drawing is saved as a pdf outside of Vectorworks. The colors print fine from within Vectorworks, but the files the we export as pdf's to print from Acrobat are very inaccurate. It seems to be an issue with the pdf created within Vectorworks, as we don't have this problem with pdf files created in InDesign and other programs. Is there a setting within VW that will embed a color profile in the pdf to ensure accurate color representation? Or, are there any other tips to ensure a high quality pdf out of VW? Thank you. We are on Vectorworks 2010 Landmark. Mac OS X 10.6.3. Acrobat 9. Edited May 14, 2010 by AHubb 1 Quote Link to comment
Rossford Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 I have the same problem, but then, its also a problem when printing a VW drawing, too. We used to have a color correction sheet. We printed out all the VW colors, and printed those, then did a test to show what each color on the screen printed out like. Our on screen product didn't always look right to our eye, but our print outs did. Quote Link to comment
AHubb Posted May 20, 2010 Author Share Posted May 20, 2010 I've had to do that with Photoshop before. But, because the colors look right printing directly from Vectorworks, I really want to figure out a way to get a PDF to reproduce the colors. We send these files to consultants to print, and want to be sure that they are as accurate as possible. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 I wonder if increasing the resolution of the PDF export would help. Quote Link to comment
Dave P Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Rather than exporting, have you tried printing to Adobe PDF? This option should be enabled if You have Acrobat loaded on the same machine. Quote Link to comment
monkey Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 are there any RGB /CMYK settings in there somewhere that could help? Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 (edited) Have you contacted tech support? I believe it has to do with a mismatch between the color spaces in VW & Acrobat and that it's possible to correct it by adding a Color Conversion in Acrobat>Advanced>Print Production>Convert Colors. Edited May 25, 2010 by bcd Quote Link to comment
Ozzie Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 But should that be necessary three things here VW, Screen, Pdf How is it possible to match them all? maybe there is more Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 OSX > Display Preferences>Color ( uses ColorSync ) >Display Profile>Calibrate and possible Print Driver issues. Quote Link to comment
Ajychau Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Have you got transparencies? I find that PDF translate the transparencies differently to how the Quicktime engine renders it on screen. I had the same issue as you described above and was further confused by why some of my PDFs exported from within the same file were perfectly color matched. Quote Link to comment
ehedge20 Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 I have been trying to solve this issue for the last 2 years and I finally figured it out! When calibrating my iMac I noticed that the Adobe RGB setting looked like the dull PDF's that I had been exporting from Vectorworks. When I changed the setting to Apple RGB the drawing inside of Vectorworks looked correct but when I exported the PDF again I had the same issue. To fix the PDF color on export I had to: 1. Navigate to: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CC 2017/PDF 2. Click on High Quality Print.joboptions 3. Select the Color Tab 4. Click the Color Management Policies drop down menu and select convert all colors to sRBG. 5. In the Working Spaces below under the RGB dropdown select Apple RGB 6. Select okay and overwrite the existing profile. Note you may have to do the same for the High Quality Print profile in this location: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings 2 Quote Link to comment
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