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VÍCTOR MARTÍ
VÍCTOR MARTÍ
Participant
March 23, 2018
Question

Overprint preview activate by default in Acrobat

  • March 23, 2018
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Hi to all, I would like to initiate a request for the ACROBAT developers to consider activating by default the option "overprint preview" in all acrobat versions.

Thanks !

Hola a todos, me gustaría iniciar una petición a los desarrolladores de ACROBAT para que la opción "visualizar sobreimpresión" esta activa por defecto en todas las versiones de ACROBAT.

Gracias !

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3 replies

T
Test Screen Name
Legend
April 23, 2018

PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 will certainly flatten, by design. That's why I said PDF/X-4.

    T
    Test Screen Name
    Legend
    March 23, 2018

    I was suggesting that you, as a document creator, can make it more likely today by creating PDF/X.

    You may suggest this (posting doesn't make an official suggestion) but I suspect there may be strong reasons for this default. If you are making PDF files for general consumption, rather than prepress, it's important to make ones that don't need overprint preview, because most people no longer view with Adobe technology anyway.

    Overprint preview is mainly needed if documents have transparency flattened. So don't do that, either... hence, PDF/X-4 not PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3.

      VÍCTOR MARTÍ
      VÍCTOR MARTÍAuthor
      Participant
      April 23, 2018

      Well, I dont think the same about PDF/X because with this option everything flattens out and the images break into a thousand pieces, the PDF is useless for further works by this way. Sorry but its not and optión for me. Its more simple activate by default the overprint-preview for all PDFs types because only by this way everyone will be able to see the PDFs as it really is.

        T
        Test Screen Name
        Legend
        March 23, 2018

        Consider saving always as PDF/X, which enables this by default.

          VÍCTOR MARTÍ
          VÍCTOR MARTÍAuthor
          Participant
          March 23, 2018

          Thanks for your quick answer but I think that if there are 4 options in this preference:

          • Only PDF-x
          • Always
          • Automatic
          • Never

          was be more safe that "always" should be the first by default and not "only PDF-X", please consider it. Thanks

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