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PDF checkprints with blended colours (or colors)

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autodeskguest over 16 years ago

Hello All,

 

My customer wants a check print "with a very pale colour for each of the

top and bottom copper layers" plus the top silkscreen in black.  Ideally

there should be a blend (purple) shade where there is both top (red) and

bottom (blue) copper.  I hoped to send him PDF files so he can print

them off.

 

I'm still in the dark ages and am using Eagle 4.09r2, rather than v5,

and have tried the epscdraw.ulp available in the download area.  It is

very close to what I need. With a little editing of the colours in the

ULP I can create quite effective pale colours for the Top and Bottom

layers.  However, each subsequent layer (colour) appears to overprint

(perhaps not the correct printing term) the earlier ones rather than

mixing the colours together.

 

I use PDFCreator from www.pdfforge.com to create, and Adobe Acrobat

Reader v9 to check, the PDF files.  Changing the Overprint options from

"Full Overprint" to "Non-Zero Overprint" in PDFCreator did not make any

difference to the result.  I'm probably missing something quite simple.

 

Is there an alternative or recommended solution?

 

Thanks for your time & thoughts.

 

Best regards,

Neil

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Avon Technical Solutions Ltd, NZ

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    autodeskguest over 16 years ago

    Neil Allison schrieb:

     

    My customer wants a check print "with a very pale colour for each of the

    top and bottom copper layers" plus the top silkscreen in black.  Ideally

    there should be a blend (purple) shade where there is both top (red) and

    bottom (blue) copper.  I hoped to send him PDF files so he can print

    them off.

    ...

     

    If you want the correct color "mix", I think you need to do an EXPORT

    IMAGE of the board. Set appropriate colors before exporting, or reduce

    color saturation later with image processing tools like Photoshop.

     

    Then send the image as GIF or PNG file - or embed it into a PDF.

     

    Tilmann

     

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