![]() If you are wise to the ways of Postscript, or willing to shoot off your own foot, you can insert this command into the Printed postscript file from the the EPS version and viola! you have overprinting in the Printed output. Its just that the Composite Postscript printed from Quark happens to be missing the appropriate overprint command. ![]() This particular command (stovp) is defined in both the EPS and the standard Postscript headers of a QuarkXpress 3.32 Postscript file its a QuarkXpress specific command in their Postscript header. “ T stovp‘ - set overprint on the next drawn object to true - in English. Other trapping details are NOT retained in the composite Postscript output. Thankfully, QuarkXpress 4.x exports the “stovp” Postscript command when printing. If you are a Postscript jockey, you can see the simple command is just plain missing from the Printed. However, if you use the Adobe preferred method of “Printing” via AdobePS to the Distiller (Mac: Create Adobe PDF, PC: Acrobat Distiller printers) - the overprinting information is NOT retained in the Postscript. New in Acrobat 5.0 – you can view this on screen. Distilling this with Acrobat Distiller 4.05 or 5 results in a PDF where the overprint is retained. If you save out of QuarkXpress 3.32 as an EPS, Quark keeps the overprinting settings (as set in the View>Trap Information palette). Overprinting in QuarkXpress 3.32 to Adobe PDF ![]() I was only partly correct, or a bit wrong. Over the last 2 years, I was under the impression that overprints were retained in composite Quark Postscript files. And as Barney Kassabian has prompted me, this raises the whole issue of QuarkXpress and overprints/trapping. Overprinting & Trapping in Adobe PDF Quick NoteĪs Acrobat 5.0 has this new cool “Overprint Preview” feature. ![]()
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