PDF showing overprint preview

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April 16, 2012
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Is there a way to output a PDF that looks like Aunt Illie's Overprint Preview?

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isladive

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There is a way to create a pdf proof directly from Illustrator that looks like your screen does with the Overprint Preview on (and without having to take a screenshot instead). If you go to your color swatches and then down to "Spot Colors" and change the color definition to LAB instead, when you get out of that, your color will look like overprint on even if you do not have that option selected AND your PDF created from Illustrator will also look like that. However, you do not want to save it with LAB colors, so undo or don't save the file that way. This is new to me as well, I was just researching some of this same stuff today and read a great article about the OP and LAB colors, etc., that led me to make this PDF proof discovery. If you are intretested in the article to understand more... http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2007/02/busting-myth-achieving-consistent-color.html

Like I said, I discovered this today and it seems to have worked fine.

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

I've not tried isladive's method yet.

Can anyone confirm that new insight?

45634563545Author

Inspiring

Gahh, haven't got around to it yet, Kurt. Soon, soon . . . though I'd rather someone more experienced with this madness test it out.

But, I would like to announce that Flatten Transparency has solved yet another one of my Illy conundrums - When you Release an object's Envelope Distort > Make With Warp and you get that grey shape warped to the shape of the distortion envelope. I've always wanted to use to use it for certain things but could nevber figure out how to convertin it into a normal path. No longer.