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The framework conditions: MAC OS, InDesign CC21, Adobe DC Professional, callas pdfToolbox (as a plugin or use independently of an application). The output (ISO Coated V2 for the cover and SC paper (ECI) for the content) goes to a printing house.
I'm wondering if I don't use the plugin and create the color conversion job using the Adobe tools, can I get the same result with it? Please see the screenshot showing the settings in the InDesign exporter.
This is what I did: separate sheets with different profiles. I'm just wondering if you get the same result when exporting with profiles in InDesign and with the Callas application. It really doesn't look like it on my screen.
That sounds logical for me. It could be the easiest and also the fastest way to get ready-to-print documents. We've been using this (callas pdfToolbox) plugin for a long time (before I was here) and I'm wondering if we could do without it. On the other hand, I hoped to get a deeper insight into color management by comparing both methods.
And the result amazes me. Especially between point 2 (which is how I would like to do it) and 4 (which is how we have been doing it all along). The biggest difference in the CMYK colors is usually seen in yellow. The colors become "warmer" due to the profiling from InDesign. For the paper we use (SC paper) that might not be the best. The paper itself has a warm note. Strangely there are no color shifts when converting RGB colors.
I have defined custom CMYK colors in InDesign and use them for elements on the cover and content pages. Only when I export the documents (content and cover are different documents) do they get their own profile. Or at the latest when I do it with the pdfToolbox (depending on how I will use it later).
If I assign the profiles to a CMYK doc with the same values there is very little change in appearance, so trying to adjust the output values via a conversion to compensate for the minor appearance differences hardly seems worthwhile.
First, if you want to properly use the Photoshop eyedropper as a real densitometer with Lab values, be sure the Intent has been choose Mode Absolute Colorimetric has been checked in the Color Settings.
You mentioned using Callas pdfToolbox for color conversion.
So, you perform it after having exported a PDF from the In Design source file.
What profile do you use? Is it a normal conversion or a Device Link conversion?
As far as I can see from the German discussion at hilfdirselbst.ch a Device Link conversion is in play with the Callas pdfToolbox software. And that's the criterium that I say stay with pdfToolbox.
Dear Uwe.
pdfToolbox offers such transformations indeed.
But you should load your own in order to use them.
So, that implies building them beforehand in another dedicated software, unlee you previously bought some.
In a second instance, I can stat, after some tests, the results differ with the same DVL depending on the software to run them. Which seems counter intuitive by default.
Sincerely.
Axel