Gerber OMEGA CP Reference Manual page 197

For best results when using the palettes in Adobe Illustrator, set your Document Color Mode to
RGB Color. CorelDRAW automatically uses the RGB colors when working with Gerber palettes.
Gerber provides Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW palettes for the following Gerber vinyls and
foils:
♦ 3M™ Scotchcal™ Series 220 vinyl
♦ 3M Scotchcal Series 225 vinyl
♦ Gerber QUANTUM™ 2000 vinyl
♦ Gerber QUANTUM 4000 vinyl
♦ GerberColor™ Spot Color foils
Installing Gerber palettes in Adobe Illustrator
Note: The following procedure uses Adobe Illustrator 10 and Windows XP. Procedure steps
and results may vary in other versions of Adobe Illustrator and other operating systems.
The Adobe Illustrator Palettes folder on the OMEGA CD contains the Gerber vinyl and spot foil
palettes for Adobe Illustrator. Copy the Adobe Illustrator palette files (.AI) to the Adobe
Illustrator program folder to make them available in the program.
Contents of the Adobe Palettes folder include:
♦ Gerber220Vinyl.AI
♦ Gerber225Vinyl.AI
♦ GerberQ2000Vinyl.AI
♦ GerberQ4000Vinyl.AI
♦ GerberSpotFoils.AI
To load the Gerber vinyl and foil palettes in Adobe Illustrator
1 Insert the OMEGA CD in your CD drive. The OMEGA setup program will auto-run
and display the OMEGA Setup Wizard Main Menu.
2 Click Browse CD Contents.
3 Navigate to: OMEGA Extras\program files\GSP\Software\Adobe Illustrator Palettes
and select all of the Gerber palettes (AI files) and copy them to the clipboard.
4 Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Illustrator
10.0.3\Presets\Swatches (using the appropriate drive letter for the hard drive where
the Adobe Illustrator program is located).
5 Paste the copied Gerber palette files into the Swatches folder and close Windows
Explorer.
6 Close the OMEGA Installation dialog box by clicking the close box.
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