Adobe 26001648 - Illustrator CS3 User Manual page 42

Flattener Preview panel
Tip: For more information on flattening,
see A Designer's Guide to Transparency for
Print Output on the Adobe website
(www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/
pdfs/dgt.pdf).
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P R I N T I N G
Flattening transparency
Transparent effects in artwork must be flattened before they can be printed. To
see areas that need to be flattened, choose Window > Flattener Preview, and
then click Refresh. To fine-tune the transparency flattening settings or select
another preset, choose Show Options from the panel menu. Click Refresh again
to preview the results. Or, select an object, and then choose Object > Flatten
Transparency.
About Transparency and the Flattener Preview
Illustrator allows you to apply very complex transparency effects such as
blends and fades, soft drop shadows, and feathered edges to your graphics.
Furthermore, you can change the opacity and apply blending modes to any
object in Illustrator. Thanks to the integration between components in Adobe
Creative Suite 3, you can place native transparent Photoshop (PSD) files into
your Illustrator artwork without rasterizing your compositions first (for example,
saving as EPS or TIFF).
If you are new to native transparency, note that transparency is flattened when
you export a document to a file format that doesn't support native transparency
from Illustrator, or when you print the document.
To preview what areas will be flattened, choose Window > Flattener Preview,
and then click Refresh.
Transparency Flattener Presets
Illustrator CS3 offers three flattening presets—Low, Medium, and High
Resolution—so that you can quickly and easily flatten artwork for common
print conditions. To edit these presets or to create your own, choose Edit >
Transparency Flattener Presets.
creating your own transparency flattener
presets