Preserving Effects in a CMYK Document - Specifically 'Outer Glow'

[L. Isabelle]

I know that many effects are only available for RGB documents. If I apply the Outer Glow command to an object created in a CMYK document, will Illustrator preserve the effect? Further, will the effect be preserved if this file is ultimately saved as a .pdf for my serevice bureau? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

L. Isabelle

[Karen C]

I have found that if you use Acrobat 4 Distiller you lose the effects. If you use Acrobat 5 Distiller for creating the PDF it's ok. However it depends on what your service provider uses.

An alternative is to create the effect, (make a copy of the file first), export that item to a PSD.
Place the PSD in the document instead of the one you created, and use that for the final version.

[L. Isabelle]

Thanks Karen.

I'll use Acrobat 5.0 to create the PDF and make sure that my service bureau is using it as well.

L. Isabelle