On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Jan-Peter Homann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:homann@colormanagement.de">homann@colormanagement.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">The Case of 4-3-4 (CMYK-Lab-CMYK) conversion is only critical for
PDF-2-PDF conversions / optimization. For printing CMYK-PDF files,
such conversion are daily business.<div class="im"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>yes, but it's still part of the process. If you have to repurpose from SWOP->ISOCoated (or ECI or ....), then you need to convert...</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">If the OutputIntent of the print stream
PDF is not identical with the ICC-profile of the current
printer setting. The PDF-rendering and rasterizing should be
done firstly to the document colorspace and than to ICC of the
printer driver setting.<br>
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<div>Nope! You should follow the rules for PDF rasterization
and color management as defined in ISO 32000.</div>
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If PDF/X files are proofed, all ICCbased PDF objects are converted
through the embbeded profiles and rendering intents to the Output
Intent and than the file is converted to the printer colorspace.
That how all professional proofing systems are working...<div class="im"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is ONLY TRUE for PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3. For PDF/X-4 (and -5) with the introduction of transparency, where you can have blending color spaces that don't match the output intent, then the process becomes (potentially) more complex with respect to color management since you have to convert at each blending step.</div>
<div> </div><div><br></div><div>Leonard</div></div>