Converting RGB to CMYK

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Jemerick Author

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Converting RGB to CMYK

Is it possible to convert an image in Pages from RGB to CMYK? How?
Thank you for your assistance.

iBookG4, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Sep 16, 2006 9:45 AM

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Answer 1

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FrankBe

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Sep 19, 2006 5:30 AM in response to Jemerick

Hello Jemerick,

there is no way in Pages to convert images from one color system into an other. You have to use an image editor for that. Or if you have no image editor, use Preview. Open the image in Preview and choose the manu item "Tools/Match to Profile..." and there select the CMYK item.

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Answer 2

Jemerick Author

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Sep 28, 2006 8:31 PM in response to FrankBe

Hi Frank,
That sounded wonderfully simple but your version of Preview must be more advanced than mine. I don't have the Tools/Match to Profile.... option. It just has Scroll, Text & Select as options. Even the preferences on Preview doesn't list color choice. I scanned my applications and offhand I don't seem to have another "image editor". I was so hoping not to get into PhotoShop. Do you happen to know of another simpler program that can do the conversion?
Thanks for your time,
Jemerick

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Answer 3

Sep 29, 2006 11:19 AM in response to Jemerick

That may have been part of the Tiger update. I see you are still using System 10.3.

You can use some of the different graphics programs to do what you want, like Graphic Converter or others (check the downloads menu under Mac OSX in the top right corner of this main web page)

CMYK has a smaller colorspace. The results may look a tad washed out.

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