Print separations, Declare the presence of trapping information, Declare the presence of trapping – Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended User Manual
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Printing
Last updated 9/30/2011
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Preview separations and transparency flattening results. See “
which areas of artwork will be flattened
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Run preflight inspections using desired criteria. See “
Note: If you use a print service provider to produce separations, you’ll want to work closely with its experts before
beginning each job and throughout the process.
Print separations
1 Choose File > Print, and choose a printer.
2 Choose an option from the Comments And Forms menu.
3 Choose print range and page handling options.
4 Click Advanced.
5 If you created a custom printer settings file with the appropriate separation settings, choose it from the Settings
menu at the top of the Advanced Print Setup dialog box.
6 Select Output on the left, and choose an option from the Color menu:
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Choose Separations if the PPD doesn’t support in-RIP separations.
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Choose In-RIP Separations if the PPD supports in-RIP separations. Trapping options appear. From the Trapping
menu, choose Adobe In-RIP or Off. If you choose Adobe In-RIP, click Trap Presets and select a preset. Click OK.
7 Specify settings for halftone screen frequency and the angle at which the selected ink’s halftone screen is rotated.
8 If the document contains objects with transparency settings, select an option from the Transparency Flattening
Preset menu.
9 Under Ink Manager, deselect any color you don’t want to separate.
The four process colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) always appear at the top
of the color plate list, followed by
spot colors in alphabetical order.
10 Click the Ink Manager button to modify ink settings for color separations.
11 Click Marks And Bleeds on the left, and select All Marks.
12 Click PostScript Options on the left, and select settings as needed. Click OK to close the dialog box, and then click
OK again to print the separations.
Declare the presence of trapping information
If you are sending your PDF files to a print service provider, you can use the Document Properties dialog box to specify
whether a PDF contains trapping information. This detail can help prevent the service provider from adding
potentially conflicting trapping commands to the file. Trapping information can either be imported with other
PostScript information from the authoring application, or it can be created in Acrobat using trapping presets
supported by Adobe In-RIP Trapping.
1 Open the PDF file, and choose File > Properties.
2 Click the Advanced tab.
3 Choose an option from the Trapped menu, and click OK.
Yes
The file contains trapping information.
No
The file doesn’t contain trapping information.
Unknown
You don’t know whether the file contains trapping information.