11-14-2013, 02:03 PM | #1 |
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Printing Earlier GURPS PDF Issues
Hi Everyone,
I am having some issues printing some of the earlier GURPS PDFS. I am trying to get several of them done at a POD printer but when being printed in Grayscale the text comes out very light. After opening the files in Acrobat, I noticed that the text isn't solid black, it has % of all 4 CMYK colors (Later PDFS do not exhibit this). Viewing the files with Output Preview, and removing the CMY Plates show about what the image will print like on my printer at home (set to grayscale, black only), or on a POD press. I was wondering if anyone else had similar issues, and what they did to correct it for print? As a note; here are some of the files I have been having issues with Dungeon Fantasy 5 Lands out of Time (I needed to embed the fonts in that one as well) Power Ups 1-2 |
11-14-2013, 02:37 PM | #2 |
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Re: Printing Earlier GURPS PDF Issues
I moved this to the e23 forum, where it's more likely to be seen by the e23 and support staff.
Note that we do prefer technical issues to be emailed to e23@sjgames.com.
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11-14-2013, 02:44 PM | #3 | |
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Re: Printing Earlier GURPS PDF Issues
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Also some of my older PDFs have been updated (DF1-4), but others alas have not. I was trying to get them to the printer this weekend so any fix would be most appreciated ;-) |
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11-14-2013, 03:23 PM | #4 |
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Re: Printing Earlier GURPS PDF Issues
I've got printed copies of DF5, PU1 & PU2, done on a standard laser printer and they all seen just fine. Certainly DF5 looks to be as dark as DF1 to DF4.
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11-14-2013, 03:37 PM | #5 |
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Location: Binghamton, NY, USA. Near the river Styx in the 5th Circle.
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Re: Printing Earlier GURPS PDF Issues
In my Dungeon Fantasy Omnibus I had printed at Lulu I had no issues with DF5. I don't see any difference between DF5 and the other DF books.
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11-14-2013, 03:54 PM | #6 | |
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Re: Printing Earlier GURPS PDF Issues
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The only difference I can see between the earlier and the later ones is the text not being pure black. |
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11-14-2013, 03:56 PM | #7 |
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Re: Printing Earlier GURPS PDF Issues
We'll be looking into this tomorrow; hopefully I'll have something to report soonish.
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11-14-2013, 04:02 PM | #8 |
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Re: Printing Earlier GURPS PDF Issues
Further update,
I just re-re downloaded DF5. It is still giving me issues. I suspect that printing will vary with the printer being used. When I change the Output preview in Acrobat to gamma 2.2 it looks fine, and I suspect the printers you are using are outputting it correctly, but it doesn't always output correctly on all printers, like the later ones do. I used to work in a print shop, and I know acrobat can be fickle with these things. Any suggestions on forcing the profile, or converting the text without making the images too dark would be most appreciated ;-) |
11-14-2013, 04:05 PM | #9 | |
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You Sir are awesome! Again, it is basically the older stuff from 2008 and before, and it appears to be the CMYK fonts. On a small side note Lands out of Time needs some fonts embedded as well. I was able to do it through Acrobat, but someone without access to it, or who doesn't know how to import through distiller might have problems. |
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11-15-2013, 01:12 AM | #10 | |
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Re: Printing Earlier GURPS PDF Issues
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edit: Okay, apparently it's very recent PDFs, which does sound very strange. |
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