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- Page 1 Adobe Illustrator CS Printing Guide for Service Providers...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Creating EPS f iles ............................... 7 Using EPS f iles from other applications......................7 Using Illustrator with other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite ............9 Placing Illustrator ar t in Quark XPress ......................11 Preparing Illustrator files for print ................. 13 New Adobe Tex t Engine .......................... -
Page 3: Introduction
This document will guide you through every aspect of the printing process in Illustrator CS including working with other Adobe and non-Adobe applications, setting up documents for print, troubleshooting, and getting the best output. It is not only a technical reference but is also a useful training tool for your staff. -
Page 4: New Features For Print Service Providers
New features for print service providers Following is a partial list of the improvements to the printing process implemented in Adobe Illustrator CS. Many of these features were developed after listening closely to the input and requests from print service providers, then incorporating those needs into the product. The result is a significantly enhanced print experience that will save you time and increase the... -
Page 5: Complete Control Over Print Settings
CS provides enhanced controls for flattening transparent artwork as you print or export it, so you can make trade-offs between quality and speed. You can even save common settings as transparency flattener presets that can also be used when printing or creating an Adobe PDF file. -
Page 6: Enhanced Pdf Suppor T
Illustrator CS introduces new support for natively creating Adobe PDF files, including com- patibility with Acrobat 6.0 and the Adobe PDF 1.5 format. PDF file creation from Illustrator is more closely aligned with creating PDF files using Acrobat Distiller. The same compres- sion options are available, including the new JPEG 2000. -
Page 7: New Tex T Composition Engine
Press PDF for automatically flattening transparent elements for final print output • Acrobat 6 Layered PDF to export top-level layers in Illustrator files to the Adobe PDF 1.5 file format. Acrobat 6 can display layers as optional content, such as alternative designs or multilingual text Some applications only support placing artwork as Adobe PDF version 1.3 which cannot... - Page 8 confident that spot colors will be retained, even in linked duotones and tritone images that interact with transparency and are set to overprint. There is a tighter integration between Photoshop and Illustrator CS, with layered files moving between the applications more readily, maintaining as much of the layer definitions as possible.
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Page 9: Working With Other Files & Applications
Preserve Text Appearance which retains the appearance of the text both on screen and in print, and will not cause text to reflow. For details, see “New Adobe Text Engine.” Live transparency is preserved in the Illustrator 9 or 10 EPS formats for later editing in Illustrator. - Page 10 Because of the feedback Adobe received from users, Illustrator CS now includes the ability to reliably print and export linked EPS and Adobe PDF files that interact with transparency. Using Illustrator CS to create color separations means spot colors are maintained rather than converted to process colors, unless specified otherwise in the print settings.
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Page 11: Using Illustrator With Other Applications In The Adobe Creative Suite
There are several trade-offs to make when choosing options for copying artwork. • If maintaining live transparency is important, choose PDF only as AICB (Adobe Illustrator Clipboard) cannot preserve transparency. • In order for Illustrator vector objects and type to be editable in Photoshop and InDesign, you must also select the AICB option. - Page 12 • If you want to preserve the overall appearance of the selection and flatten transparency, choose Preserve Appearance and Overprints. Access from Illustrator > Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard in Mac OS, and Edit > Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard in Windows. Non-native art: When you import artwork from a PDF file, it may contain data that cannot be created/edited within Illustrator.
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Page 13: Placing Illustrator Ar T In Quark Xpress
If the file includes features that Illustrator does not support (including clipping groups, adjustment layers, layer effects, and some blending modes) then Illustrator preserves the appearance of the artwork by merging and rasterizing layers. Keep the following in mind when importing layers from a Photoshop file: •... - Page 14 file and one application to manage. If the artwork requires layout, Adobe InDesign allows you to simply place the native Illustrator file, retaining its editability and live transparency. QuarkXPress version 6 can place PDF content into QuarkXPress documents. Because Note: Adobe cannot ensure QuarkXPress does not share transparency-flattening models with Adobe products, the PDF...
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Page 15: Preparing Illustrator Files For Print
New Adobe Tex t Engine Illustrator CS uses the new Adobe Text Engine to provide the highest-quality text composi- tion, support for Unicode and OpenType font features, and time-saving Character and Paragraph styles. Advantages of using OpenType fonts include larger character sets, cross- platform compatibility for font files, and a quick way to apply refined typographic features. -
Page 16: Trapping
Editing text later: If you decide later to edit the text, just double-click on the text to be converted. In the “Editing the text” dialog box, click Copy Text Object, which preserves the legacy text on a locked layer below the updated text. This allows you to compare the layout of the legacy text to the updated text before deleting the extra layer. - Page 17 Note: cannot easily change the size of the trap once created. One advantage to this method is that it Make sure your graphic is scaled to allows you to trap with a gradient. its final size before adding a trap. Existing traps are scaled along with the objects to which they’re applied,...
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Page 18: Gradients, Mesh Objects, And Color Blends
3. Choose Window > Stroke. Note: If you have done 4. For the Weight, enter a stroke width between 0.6 and 2.0 points. The trap size will be trapping by equal to half this value. overprinting, you can use the Appearance 5. - Page 19 individual object or to groups of objects or layers, which can make it difficult to edit the objects. To simplify this process, use the Transparency, Layers, and Appearance palettes to give you more information about the objects selected on the page. Note: As a service provider, it is important to be able to see where transparency is applied to Details on using...
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Page 20: Overprinting
Overprinting While transparency and overprint are two distinct things, transparency will often affect overprint. In the process of flattening, overprint instructions are preprocessed when overprinted objects interact with transparent objects. This ensures that overprint settings are reliably processed when a file is flattened. The visual appearance of the objects involved does not change during flattening, nor does the amount of ink per plate. - Page 21 During flattening, all overlapping areas of a group of objects affected by transparency, are broken down into separate opaque pieces (atomic regions) that may include vectors, raster data, or both. Once flattened, the original objects can no longer be modified, so it is best to retain live transparency until the last possible point in the workflow.
- Page 22 value should not be changed. Higher resolutions may improve flattener quality, but will result in larger file sizes. Gradient and Mesh Resolution: For objects that use these effects, including drop • shadows and feathering, a setting of 300 dpi is sufficient in most cases. •...
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Page 23: Preflighting And Troubleshooting
Warning: If you change a setting in the Flattener Preview palette or redefine a preset, it applies the settings that will change the output. Choose Window > Flattener Preview, select the preset and any other options, then click Refresh to update the preview. All objects in the palette preview are displayed as gray except for the areas affected by the settings you specified, which are shown in red. - Page 24 Document Info: Choose Window > Document Info to see listings of general file information and object characteristics, as well as the number and names of graphic styles, custom colors, patterns, gradients, fonts, and placed art. If you want information on only the selected object(s), choose Selection Only from the palette menu.
- Page 25 Appearance palette: Once you have selected an object, group or layer using the Layers Best Practice: Have the Layers and palette, you can see the graphic styles and effects (including fills and strokes) applied to it Appearance palettes using the Appearance palette. The order in which the effects are listed from top to bottom is open while looking through an Illustrator the order in which they were applied.
- Page 26 Other sources: In addition to the above tools for troubleshooting and preflighting files before printing, you should consult the following areas described elsewhere in this docu- ment: • “Overprint preview” shows an approximation of how overprinting colors will print. • “Flattener Preview palette”...
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Page 27: Print Dialog Box Settings
Print dialog box settings In response to service provider requests, one of the top priorities for Adobe Illustrator CS was to streamline the printing experience and make it easy to produce consistent and reliable results every time you print. The wide range of printing options lets you precisely customize print settings for your shop’s workflow in a straightforward manner. -
Page 28: Visible On All Tabs
Click Import to load presets. PostScript files can also be created using print presets. Simply create a new print preset Note: and select Adobe PostScript File from the Printer menu. For the PPD, either choose Device You cannot open preset files in a text Independent (does not include printer driver or PPD information in the PostScript file,... -
Page 29: General
Setup: The Setup button brings up the operating system printing options. It is recom- mended that you set all print options in the Illustrator print dialog to get the full print capabilities of Illustrator. General Size: The Media Size shows the page sizes available in the selected output device, as listed in the PPD file. -
Page 30: Mark S & Bleed
Placement: Clicking one of the squares specifies where the imageable area or first tile of your artwork should be placed to adjust the artwork on the film or printed page. Origin X and Y: Specifies the origin point along the horizontal (X) and vertical (Y) axes. Tiling: If the artwork is larger than the selected page size, it can be tiled to print onto multiple pages. -
Page 31: Output
Output Mode: Depending on what is supported by the selected output device (defined in the PPD file) you can print to Composite, Separations (Host-Based), or In-RIP Separations (new to Illustrator CS). When Composite is chosen, you can set Emulsion and Printer Resolution. Choosing Separations adds choices for Positive or Negative Image, and Document Ink Options. -
Page 32: Graphics
Graphics Flatness: This option gives you control over how closely you require the printer to approxi- mate curves. A lower setting (toward Quality) creates more, smaller straight line segments, more closely approximating the curve. A higher setting (toward Speed) results in longer and fewer line segments, creating a less smooth curve, but improving performance. -
Page 33: Color Management
Effects > Document Raster Effects Settings. Color management Illustrator CS uses the Adobe Color Engine (ACE) as its core color-transform technology, also used by Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat which can all share the same color settings files. ACE gives you more precise color matching as your content moves across applications during the production process. -
Page 34: Summar Y
Overprints: The following choices are available. • Preserve retains overprinting. This is the default for printing separations. • Simulate imitates the appearance of overprinting for a composite proof. It is useful when Best Practice: Prepress / RIP options you want the effects of overprinting to appear on a proof, providing a more accurate may include discarding impression of the final outcome of the printed file (as seen on screen with Overprint overprint, which... -
Page 35: Expor Ting Adobe Pdf Files
Creating Adobe PDF files has never been easier or more powerful than with Adobe Illustrator CS with its new support for Acrobat 6.0 and the Adobe PDF 1.5 format. New capabilities include support for spot colors and DeviceN color spaces for duotones, tritones, etc., exten- sive security options, and support for layers, printer’s marks, and bleeds in PDF files. -
Page 36: Delivering Adobe Pdf Files For Print
Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, PostScript, PostScript 3, and Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respec- tive owners.