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Acrobat How-To: Previewing Color Separations Onscreen

This tutorial shows you how to "soft-proof" your document before you send it off to your printer. Not only will you catch costly errors, but your neighborhood prepress professional will love you for making this effort.
Written on February 16, 2005
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Categories: PDF, Print, Print Asset Mgmt./Workflow, Print Design & Layout, How-Tos

Adobe® Acrobat® 7.0 Professional lets you preview color separations on-screen, or soft-proof, so you know exactly how a document will print. For accurate color preview, first specify color management settings. Then, preview one or more separations at a time. You can see how spot colors convert to process colors while you preview separations, and then you can temporarily convert the inks for a single print job by using the Ink Manager in the Print dialog box.

We've posted this story as a PDF file. All you do is click the link "PDF Soft-Proofing" to open the PDF file in your Web browser. You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing.

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