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Subject:Re: Problem with color in Acrobat 4.0 From:Steve Read <seread -at- pacbell -dot- net> To:Robert Heath <rheath -at- eGain -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 05 Mar 2000 20:43:11 -0800
Robert Heath wrote:
>
> On a FrameMaker document I have written, I have placed "Draft -- 3/3/00" in
> magenta at the top of my master pages. When I save it as a PostScript file,
> convert it to PDF with Distiller, and then open it in Acrobat, the Draft
> header is gray. In the Distiller Job Options, I have selected Leave Color
> Unchanged under the Color tab, but still the heading is gray.
>
> Has anyone had a similar problem? If so, how did you solve it?
Yes. It made me crazy until I realized that I needed a *color* PS
printer driver installed.
