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decide how you should stack page objects to avoid aening text and
vector segments.
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Red highlight indicates vector areas that will be aected by transparency.
For more information about transparency, see “Transparency in Adobe
Applications: a Print Production Guide” (http://www.adobe.com/go/
learn_transparency_print_en ) and “Designer’s Guide to Transparency
for Print Output” (http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_transparency_
designer_en). While these resources were created for users of Creative
Suite 3, they still contain useful information.
Color Management in Creative Suite 5 Components
The goals of color management are to reduce the amount of proofing
needed to accurately assess color, and to ensure predictable output and
print. When used properly, color management speeds the process and
reduces the costs associated with achieving the color your customer
expects.
Keep in mind that, even if you choose to turn off color management in
Adobe applications (note that you cannot turn off color management in
Acrobat X Pro), color management is still being performed by your
operating system to govern monitor display and printing. It’s best to
leave color management on in Adobe applications, and to ensure that
the same settings are used across all the applications for consistency.
Use Adobe Bridge to easily synchronize color settings for Illustrator,
Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat simultaneously.
Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat use the same underlying
code to render colorwhether displaying an image on a monitor,
printing to a desktop printer, or sending data to a RIP. If color
management is carefully implemented and maintained, you should be
able to better communicate color expectations with your customers.
In addition to providing an environment for consistent color viewing
and rendering, color-managed workflows allowand encouragethe
use of RGB images. With a larger color gamut than CMYK, RGB offers
the potential for more flexibility in a print workflow, especially if the
content might be repurposed for the web, video, or mobile phones.
Some color corrections are much more easily performed in the RGB
color mode, and many digital devices (such as inkjet printers and toner-
based digital presses) are capable of rendering a wider gamut than is
possible with offset inks. Consequently, in such an environment, it is
beneficial to maintain maximum color possibilities by not converting to
CMYK prematurely. Using RGB also makes it easier for you to move the
project from one press to another while keeping the color looking
consistent among your own equipment, deferring the conversion to
CMYK until the latest point possible.
Managing color needs for a customer is a comprehensive job. Start by
encouraging customers to at least calibrate their monitors using Adobe
Gamma (Windows) or the Color System Preference under Displays
(Mac OS). This provides them with a very basic system profile to be
used in color management. For more reliable profiling, encourage them
to obtain a monitor profiling device and use it at recommended
intervals to maintain reliable on screen display. Don’t share customized
monitor profiles; each monitor needs a profile specifically generated for
that particular monitor
In many cases, choosing North America Prepress 2 as your color setting
will be a sufficient start, but you can customize settings as you develop
more specific RGB-to-CMYK conversions. For example, North America
Prepress 2 uses a CMYK conversion that is based on Specification for
Web Offset Publications (SWOP), and although it does work for
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