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1. this shows the personal information of the user that created the session This information is defined in Preferences User Info see User Info 1 0 E S KO a 160 i Cut Preflight 10 Certified PDF e System contains the log on name the network name and the Ethernet address of the operator for that session e Application the application used to make the changes and the name company and key used for its registration e Times shows the start time and end time of the session e Preflight shows the profile used to preflight the document e Comment shows the comment s entered for this session e Actions the changes made to the document either while preflighting using action lists or manually e Active Session the active session only contains the actions done on the file since the beginning of the session It can be seen as an undo redo history 10 1 2 Highlight Zoom You can click one of the entries to highlight the object in the Viewing Color set in the Preferences see Viewing colors This can be an entry in the actions both in the active session or in an earlier session or an entry in the preflight report Double click an entry to zoom in on the appropriate object s 10 1 3 Session Rollback If you have been using Incremental Save on your file see ncremental Save you can roll back to the way the file was when it was saved in a previous session You can do th
2. 6 2 4 Converting to a Path Convert to Path Object menu Path Convert to Path converts all selected objects to plain groups and paths This is especially useful for text blocks 6 2 5 Object Window Path Double click the Direct Selection Tool to open the Object window called Path in this case ei E S KO KL 38 i Cut Preflight 6 Objects A AB Path Points 6 open Fill mode ware Orientation ela When a path is selected you can define its Fill mode and Orientation in this window The Fill mode can be Non Zero Winding Fill see picture on the left or Odd Even Fill see picture on the right The Orientation e g when adding points to an open path can be clockwise or counterclockwise 6 3 Object Transformation 6 3 1 Object Transformation Window Double click the Transform Tool to open the Object Transformation window Ba Object Transformation SE lx 26 82 mm Y 1135mm B 22 77 mm E 437 mm E 100 0 1 100 0 Q l0 00 A ooo o o Using this window you can move rotate scale and shear a selection object or group of objects E Note The objects paint will be transformed together with the objects You can also use the Transformation window to transform other elements of your design e To move the Fill Paint only and not the rest of the object selectthe Paint Tool See Fill Paint Transformation window e To move the Stroke Paint only and not the rest of the object select the P
3. 9 8 6 Flattening Resolution Enter the resolution you want to flatten downsample images to when completely resampling images see Completely resample images 9 8 7 Completely resample images If only part of an image needs to be flattened this flattens the whole image to avoid creating pixels problems at the boundaries between the flattened part and the original image You can choose the resolution to flatten your image to See Flattening Resolution 9 9 Action Lists With i cut Preflight you can run Action Lists on a document An Action List is an automated succession of actions that performs a task e g convert all colors in a document to CMYK 9 9 1 Running an Action List To run an Action List go to Document Run Action List You can choose to e usea Standard Action List installed with i cut Preflight e usea Local Action List that you made yourself e use an Action List created in an older version of i cut Preflight or another application e browse to an Action List file eal using Choose lf your document contains several pages you need to decide if you want to run the Action List on e all pages of the document e the current page only e aset of pages that you can define ER E S KO KL 140 i Cut Preflight 9 Document Run Action List on All Pages Current Page Page 1 e g 5 8 17 31 ee Cancel ae Note You can also trial run an Action List while cr
4. C Use other settings for images than for other objects Enable color management Source Gray FujiFilm Generic Gray3 icc a RGB Fujifilm Generic RGB icm D CMYK Fujifilm Generic CMYK icm Lab FFE Input Lab Profile _ The output intent overrides the selected ICC profiles Target Y Use other ICC profile than source Gray FujiFilm Generic Gray3 ice L RGB Fujifilm Generic RGB icm CMYK Fujifilm Generic CMYK icm gt Lab FFEI Input Lab Profile H _ The output intent overrides the selected ICC profiles CMM Engine System CMM L Rendering intent Object defined iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 155 The Processing Properties options allow you to change the profile s behavior for all problem categories e g disable all fixes The Pages to show in the preflight report options allow you to define what information you want to see in the report The color management options allow you to apply color management when preflighting your document with your preflight profile You can choose to color manage all objects the same way or to color manage images differently Problem Categories Select a problem category in the left panel to display more details in the right panel Depending on the category you can define problems to detect reporting type and fixes Problem Categories M Enable Document Compression Ceneral a Problems to detect Report as Fix this problem Sung M Document structure is c
5. Name CMYK 1 Spot v3 0 Author Enfocus Customer Support Company Enfocus Description Version 3 0 This Preflight Profile is a basic Preflight Profile to ensure a PDF document is correct for press oriented high quality output This Preflight Profile is for a CMYK 1 spot color workflow which means that it will allow 1 spot color next to CMYK objects It does not try to remap the file to CMYK 1 spot just reports Advanced features that cause problems in most workflows are also set to error in this Preflight Profile Cancel Apply oe 4 a o This is the same dialog as when you create a new preflight profile For more information see New Preflight Profile i Cut Preflight 9 Document 157 g Note e fthe preflight profile you want to edit is partially locked see Locking you can either enter the password to edit it or choose to only view tt A password is needed to edit the profile B amp W The password is not needed for viewing the profile Enter password View Only Cancel OK e lf the preflight profile is password protected i cut Preflight will ask you to enter a password before you can edit it A password is needed to edit the profile CmykVeryHiRes_lv3 Enter password Cancel OK Duplicate Preflight Profile To duplicate a preflight profile select it in the Manage Preflight Profiles window click the Action Be button and select Duplicate preflig
6. The Layers chapter explains how to view and use layers e g making a clipping with a layer and how to arrange objects in layers moving them forward or backward locking unlocking and showing hiding them See Layers Document The Document chapter deals with the general editing of a document for example inserting extracting pages resizing page boxes and also editing separations images and fonts by page or for the whole document Cut Preflight 1 Introduction 11 KK See Document Certified PDF The Certified PDF chapter describes all windows and settings for using the Certified PDF technology History Save and Preflight Profiles See Certified PDF Preparation for i cut i cut Preflight contains a number of functions and tools specific for the collaboration with i cut Layout or i cut Automate These are described in this chapter See Preparation for i cut on page 166 Advanced The Advanced chapter describes the Preferences for i cut Preflight See Advanced ESKO e 2 Files 2 1 New This creates a new document You can choose the number of pages and the page size New Document Number of Pages 1 Page Size A4 Page Width 210 00mm Page Height 297 00mm Cancel Shortcut Command N Mac or Ctrl N Windows 2 1 1 Page Size You can either enter a page size manually or use a predefined page size e To enter a page size manually choose Custom and
7. 4 Editing 47 4 3 Undo amp Redo 4 3 1 Undo Undoes the last preformed action The entire list of actions can be seen in the History window The number of actions that can be undone is unlimited Shortcut Command Z Mac or Ctrl Z Windows 4 3 2 Redo Redoes the last undone action After doing a new action you can t redo the previous ones anymore Shortcut Shift Command Z Mac or Ctrl Shift Z Windows 4 3 3 History The History window contains a complete undo redo history For more information on the History window see History 4 4 lools 4 4 1 Select Tool The Select Tool allows you to select objects either by clicking in them Area select or on their outline Outline select For more informations see Selection Tool 4 4 2 Edit Spline Tool Ps With the Edit Spline Tool you can edit paths For more details see Editing a Path E S KO KL 48 i Cut Preflight 4 Editing Double clicking on the Edit Spline Tool opens the Object window according to what is selected the Object window s name changes to Path Box Ellipse Star Polygon or Text 4 4 3 Cut Tool 7 The Cut Tool ya is located under the Edit Spline Tool hold the mouse down on the Edit Spline Tool to show it It enables you to open an outline at a certain point or cut a closed outline in two parts 4 4 4 Transform Tool Gs 2 The Transform Tool 2 allows you to select move scale a
8. A The View Separations window in the Windows menu allows you to hide or show some or all separations on the screen To add delete or modify separations see Separations Special inks Varnish Technical or Opaque are indicated by a V T or O Clicking the eye in front of a separation shows or hides it iI Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 27 All Click the All button to display all separations If the All button was already selected all separations will be hidden single The Single button will hide all separations except for one If the Single button is on showing another separation will always hide the one that was selected previously Deselect the Single button to view multiple separations again 3 2 View Page Boxes Window The Page Boxes window in the Windows menu allows you to show or hide page boxes by clicking on the eye icons in front of them AB View Page Boxes _ Media box 350 00 x 270 00mm ls Crop box 330 46 x 250 00mm Bleed box 300 00 x 230 00mm El _ Trim box 275 00 x 215 00mm Art box 250 00 x 200 00mm mal Single All Click the All button to display all page boxes If the All button was already selected all page boxes will be hidden You can show or hide all page boxes with the Shortcut Command B Mac or Ctrl B Windows Single The Single button will hide all page boxes except for one If the Single butt
9. Me skoe came Contents La Te dree Te d EE H A e EE 9 12 ADOUTASCUE Pre ecnin Eao aaNet Eea 9 13 The Ne EE 9 2 FDS OO PE E E E A EA E E ER EE A 12 OS CT 12 ERRE a e A A A A E Pe PR 0 O E O o A 12 ee e 12 O PP on a este ee ace nap A e O tease asaya seeeenennets 12 AO e oo e 13 E E e E APA ee e E o oe e o ol OO ee 13 ANO e A O EP EE e e O ke nao bata 13 25 1 Saving a New DocU Me EE 13 2 5 2 Saving an Existing Document 14 2 5 3 Saving a Certified PDF Document 14 A A BICU EE 14 EE 14 VAM oae anA REONE ee E ta 15 ue WE EE 15 29 Pago Die EE 15 SN PO ln E 16 o ell en 16 2 10 2 Printing to a Device Printer Driver 17 A Ly Lo OPA o o EP E OE e o REO O an 18 3 1 The cut Pretlgnt elt ele 18 SLI TOL os LEE 19 E le Cd Le E 20 3 1 3 Palette e Eu EE 21 3 1 4 SNOW Hide En EE 21 Se OS tirao 21 3 2 1 New VE 21 3 2 2 O Ee 21 E RE 21 32A EE ME WS ee Eet 22 2 VIM ODOM WIN ee 22 3 2 6 View Separations Wmdouw rro rro 26 3 2 7 View Page Boxes VWmmdow rro 27 33 Navigating ima Pla its 28 Contents E H e 0 0 q LD 28 A e OO oo E OO 30 SO Navigation le ee EE 30 SS AC sO WY SII G EE 31 eo He Bl Ee LA TEE 31 Biel Rau Et Lee EE 31 A ll OO EE 32 3 4 3 Object Selection EE 32 OFA ENOrS S VV Une S sauia n E R T E R 32 24 9 PROD Report INTO MAIN EE 37 OD AA e O UE O O a O PSOE A 38 A E og Re a a RR nL eons nw een ed 41 A O erer 41 AM SS RE 41 e Ptos E EE 41 D BREET 41 A io o e o o O eta a ec ate
10. None Selects all the objects with no Fill Paint Flat Selects all the objects with a flat Fill Paint no shading Shading Selects all the objects with a shading as Fill Paint You can refine your selection with the following options e All selects all objects with a shading e Axial selects all objects with an axial shading e Radial selects all objects with a radial shading e Uneditable selects all objects with a shading which cannot be edited in i cut Preflight neither axial nor radial 4 E S KO KL 44 Cut Preflight 4 Editing Image Selects all the objects with an image as Fill Paint You can refine your selection with the following options e All selects all objects with an image as Fill Paint e OPI selects all objects with an external not embedded image as Fill Paint e Color selects all objects with an image belonging to a particular color space RGB Lab Gray CMYK BW 1 bit images or Spot DeviceN e Type selects all objects with an image of a particular type JPEG or Lossless e Res Selects all objects with an image that has a resolution lower equal or higher than a specified value Pattern Selects all the objects with a pattern as Fill Paint You can refine your selection with the following options e All selects all objects with a pattern as Fill Paint e Colored selects all objects with a colored pattern as Fill Paint e Uncolored selects all objects with an uncolored pattern as Fill Pai
11. To do this Open your PDF file in i cut Preflight Use File Insert to open the report file This opens the Errors and Warnings window ESKOG 38 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing F Note You can also drag and drop the report file onto the i cut Preflight icon in the Dock or open it from i cut Preflight s Shuttle see Shuttle In the Errors and Warnings window select Insert Report Document to view only the report s entries Click an error warning in the window to highlight the area in the file l BB Errors Warnings o Pe Show Insert Report Docu Description Ch b Font DustMites uses an artificial bol e Spot color PANTONE 2738 C SES Object 1 Talal Object 2 Object 3 D L k G ei E k 7 w d a Pr LA Pr Reported by Insert Report Document 3 Severity Warning 3 4 6 File Differences You can also use cut Preflight to view the differences between two files You can use this for example when you compared the files in Odystar they didn t match and you want to see where the differences are To view the areas that are different in the mismatched file In the Odystar canvas hold Command and double click the mismatched job to open it in the Finder Drag and drop the mismatched file then the report file onto the i cut Preflight icon in the Dock Dee Note You can also open the report file from i cut Preflight using File Insert or open it from i cut Prefligh
12. e or to keep the current PDF version g Note You can see the PDF version of your document in the Document window see Fill Paint Stroke Paint 9 8 2 Flatten non separable blend modes Enable this option to flatten Hue Saturation Color and Luminosity blend modes This doesn t flatten other blend modes unless used with PDF 1 3 For more information about blend modes see Blend Modes ce Note If you choose to flatten your document to PDF 1 3 this option is automatically enabled and flattens all blend modes 9 8 3 Split DeviceN color spaces e Keep this option disabled to preserve DeviceN color spaces ER E S KO KL 138 i Cut Preflight 9 Document e Enable it to split each object in the DeviceN color space into several overprinting objects e g a CMYK object and one or several objects in spot color spaces 9 8 4 Resolve overprints Enable this option to flatten overprints e Flattening 2 overprinting objects with this option off keeps the overprint as it is e flattening them with the option on generates 3 objects 9 8 5 Convert PS blends PostScript style blends or PS blends are blends made of a succession of paths with progressive variations of size location and color between them iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 139 ER Switch this parameter on to convert PostScript style blends into images using the specified Flattening Resolution This makes the file simpler and allows faster processing
13. 9 6 7 Edit Image d You can edit an image by clicking on the Edit button at the bottom of the Images window This opens the selected image in the default image editor defined in the Preferences see Editing for example Photoshop When saving the edited image in the image editor it will be updated immediately in the i cut Preflightfile ER E S KO KL 132 1 Cut Preflight 9 Document Ce Note This will not alter the original image but save a copy of the edited image in your PDF file You can use the regular Undo function to cancel those changes Bes Note If the image has a profile attached to it this profile will be used as the working color space of the editing application 9 6 8 Export Image i cut Preflight enables you to export an embedded image as a TIFF file this saves the image on disk as a separate file The image is embedded if the application that created the PDF didn t include the file path information which was the case in i cut Preflight 1 0 Once the image is exported to a file i cut Preflight remembers the link to this file You can view this link in the Paint window by clicking on the little folder icon beside the image name See mage To export an image select it in the document and go to Object Image Export A browse window will open for you to define the file name and location You can also export an image by clicking on the Export button il at the bottom of the Images window this work
14. Delete button You can also click the Action H button and select Delete name or just press backspace This deletes the selected preflight profile or the selected group and all the preflight profiles it contains from the preflight profiles database Edit Preflight Profile Rather than creating totally new preflight profiles you might find it easier to create your own preflight profiles based on predefined profiles To do this 1 In the Manage Preflight Profiles window right click the preflight profile you want to start from and select Duplicate S Select the duplicated profile click the Action 1 button and select Edit preflight profile name You can also double click the duplicated profile This opens the Enfocus Preflight Profile Editor dialog HOMO Problem Categories General Locking Processing Document Format Document Compress Document Info Security Page Box Layout Page Size Page Info Page Settings Screen Color Process Color Spot Color Multichannel ICC Color Color Remap Spot Color Remap Rendering Parameters Transparency Font Type Font Name Font Style Font Embedding Text Line Art Image Position Image Resolution Image Compression OPI Layers Annotations Metadata PDF X DA NM Calor Enfocus Preflight Profile Editor CMYK 1 Spot v3 0 General Preflight Profile Properties
15. will appear instead of the characters Change embedding to Subset You can only change the embedding to Subset if the font is entirely embedded in the PDF or if it is available as a system font Change embedding to Full This is only possible if the font is available as asystem font E Note If the document font and your system font have the same name but differ slightly e g by the width of the glyphs this could cause a visual change to the document You will then be asked ifyou want to reflow the text inside of the text box The system font Helvetica differs from the font that is embedded Changing the embedding will cause the affected text to reflow Do you want to continue Cancel ER E S KO KL 136 i Cut Preflight 9 Document Re subset the font The font can only be re subset if it is available in your system If this is the case the font will be re subset automatically when you type new characters and save the file 9 7 3 Delete Font To delete a font select it and click the button You can select several fonts to delete using the Shift key 9 7 4 Replace Font To replace a font select it and click the replace button AMA In the pop up window that appears choose the new font and its face if applicable and click OK Select Font Helvetica L i Bold H Cancel This will cause the text to reflow inside of the text box 9 7 5 Fonts across the Document To vie
16. 0 0 el PANTONE 2738 C 0 0 100 0 PANTONE 164 C 1000 oo Registration C Overprint If shading is set to Radial a circular shading will be generated on the bounding box of the object If it is set to Axial a vertical gradation will be generated based on the bounding box of the selection After the shading is generated its position and size can be changed using the Paint Tool see Paint Tool i Cut Preflight 5 Appearance 61 You can add colors to a shading by clicking underneath the preview bar Each color can be moved by clicking and dragging When moving it away from the preview bar the color will be removed from the shading The values for two shading colors is shown the selected colors indicated by a black outline on the preview squares You can see the values for another color by simply clicking on it The location can be defined by dragging it or by entering the location manually The MidPoint of every segment of the shading can be moved by moving the diamond shape on top of the preview bar or by entering it manually 5 1 4 Image If you set Fill Paint to Image Pl a browser window will open allowing to select the image you want to place You can select a PNG JPG image PDF TIFF or PSD file The image compression rate is shown at the top of the window OD Fill Paint NM B laa Lossless ca lt Embedded gt 10 1402x1401 px 526 dpi al Opacity None 1 43
17. 1 Document Images eege ee Eed 127 9 6 2 Attach Detach ICC Profile cccccceccsesccscceecscresstscsesstsressseisssesscsressiesseeseerenn 128 9 6 3 Convert Image Color SPACE E 129 Ao e II ree io o 130 GR Delia Mage sa ab 131 96 6 Replace e EE 131 210 ell un e Somo 131 10 11 Contents GR EXPO un Ee 132 9 69 IMAGES across the DOCUMEN E 132 UPON apa 133 SL DOCUMENT FONS arta 133 9 7 2 Change Font EMD COGIC sai tidad 134 FET Delete FON casts rin rnd tab le T tit dries ban ee 136 A eege er 136 9 7 5 Fonts across the Document NNN 136 EE shi ascetics san on antes etal eta cis sean ctl ate Ee 136 GEN NR KI EE 137 9 8 2 Flatten non separable blend modes cc cccceccescccescssssecsssssrsescsssserssscesessesesstecesstasserasreg 137 98 op lit DEVICON COlO Spaces is 137 04 Resolve OVEN el 138 98 nn PSB INCAS EE 138 9 8 Flattening ESOIUTOM EE 139 9 8 7 Completely resample Images 139 9 9 PAG TION EE 139 Ss Fs Vy SCL UIE an eent seta lat nl ete dco na Arendal 139 99 2 Managing ACHOM EE 140 HTO A 150 9 10 1 Preflighting a Document with a Preflight Profile 150 9 10 2 Managing Preflight Profes unido bios 152 Be de PDE sa 159 A e eo iy O 159 TO et Session MAT ON AIO sion ads 159 1042 PORON ZOO DEE 160 100128 SESSION Ee ere 160 10 14 Show hide Detalla oct se ate ahi th ee ais cco Santon ln Ceo 161 10 2 ING Eu EE 161 MIA EH 161 10 3t E Melu Gel 161 10 3 2 Preflighting without Saving Test Preflight 0 ccc ccc eccecstssees
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19. Acrobat You can move close or minimize notes Opaque Inks This option is enabled by default Disable it and enable Overprints if you want to show opaque inks as transparent e g to check trapping towards opaque inks Outline Text Enable this option if you want to see text as outlines instead of filled Check Spelling Mac OS X Only This option is only available when running on Mac OS X Enable this option to underline misspelled words in red The language of the spelling checker is determined automatically You can see it and change it in the Object window when text is selected see Language Spell Checker Mac OS Only Overprints Enable this option to highlight all objects in overprint E S KO KL 26 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing Transparencies Enable this option to highlight all transparencies overprints and blend modes Breakouts Below Enable this option to highlight all areas having a percentage lower than the value you enter in any separation Breakouts Below 2 0 This allows you to edit e g add ink or remove areas that may not appear on print Ink Coverage Above Enable this option to highlight all areas with a higher ink coverage than the value you enter Ink Coverage Above 780 0 Traps Enable this option to highlight all traps 3 2 6 View Separations Window View separations T Cyan e P Magenta sel Yellow Black S Y cola O i Artwork Red ls Al Single a lalla
20. Action List To duplicate an Action List select it in the ManageAction Lists window click the Action gt button and select Duplicate Action List name Rename Group To rename a group 1 right click it in the Manage Action Lists window 2 select Rename 3 type the new name You can also select the group to rename click the Action button and select Rename Group name Import Action List You can import a eal file to make the Action List available in the Manage Action Lists window for managing and editing ER E S KO KL 150 i Cut Preflight 9 Document To do this click the Action H button and select Import Action List This opens a finder window where you can select the Action List to import Import Group You can import a folder containing eal files as an Action List group To do this click the Action H button and select Import Group This opens a finder window where you can select the folder to import Gre Note This imports the group inside the group that you selected in the Action Lists tree structure Export Action List Group You can export an Action List as a eal file to transfer or distribute it To do this click the Action 1 button and select Export Action List name This opens a finder window where you can define the name and location of the exported eal file You can also export a group as a folder
21. Click Locking and use the panel on the right to define if your Action List should be locked and how much If you select Partially locked or Locked you can enter a password for your Action List Enter it in the Password and Confirm fields and click the Apply button ESKOC gt 146 i Cut Preflight 9 Document Selected Actions Options for Action List Locking Action List Info 9 a Gei Not locked Action List Locking Select all O Partially locked Make DeviceN with C Locked Password Confirm Apply Lr te e 4 Action Attributes Select an action in the Action List panel to display its attributes if any in the Attributes panel Selected Actions Options for Change fill color QU Action List Info mM Fill Action List Locking Select all mme Change fill color Brightness MB 0 00 Stroke Device gray S Brightness _ 0 00 Log Log D Log Use this attribute to define whether to log the current action to the Errors amp Warnings window You can choose e Don t Log i Cut Preflight 9 Document 147 ER e Log as Warning e Log as Error and Allow Sign Off e Log as Error For more information on the Errors amp Warnings window see Errors amp Warnings Test You can run the Action List from this dialog before saving it e g if you want to test it using the Test butto
22. E Document Assembly E Content Copying E Commenting iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 117 ER 9 1 1 Info This section contains metadata the file s author and the title subject and keywords the author gave to the file if any 9 1 2 File This section contains general file information the file name PDF version size and number of pages 9 1 3 History This contains information about the file s creation and modification creator application PDF producer PDF generation engine which could be part of the creator application or not date of creation and modification of the file and number of Certified PDF sessions 9 1 4 Security This shows the file s security options Ownership This shows the file s owner The double arrows allow you to set a permissions password if you own the file or if tt has no owner Set Permissions Password Encryption This shows the file s encryption method The double arrows allow you to change it 40 Bit RCA 128 Bit REA 128 Bit AES g Note If there is a password set for the file you will be asked for it when changing the encryption method ESKO 118 i Cut Preflight 9 Document Restrictions If you have set a password this allows you to restrict what users without the password can do with the file 9 2 Esko Normalized PDF Esko Normalized PDFs are PDF files containing metadata that can be read by some workflows and applications e g Asset Management systems
23. Lists folder Dee Note If you have legacy Local or Global Action Lists on your system you will find them in a From Old Database group E Note i cut Preflight is compatible with the latest PitStop Pro Action Lists New Action List Click the New button to create a new Action List You can also click the Action button and select New Action List ER ceskog Ty This opens the Add Action List dialog 142 i Cut Preflight 9 Document Note You cannot add Action Lists in the Standard Action List group AOC Add Action List Untitled Hide Library Test Available Actions Selected Actions Options for Action List Info d J Action List Info S 9 Reni Action List Name Untitled e Favorites NOT Select all Author Select all E Select Add alternate images Company oF Add Add background Action List Description W Remove Add copied graphics CO Change Add default color spaces f 8 Check Add font metadata I Gather Info Add missing creation and Add object Color Add objects to layer Image Add page box marks A Text Add page number Co Line Art Add pages Position amp Size Add registration marks General Add unique document IDs Ln Prepress Apply DeviceLink ES Page Apply page rotation 5 Document Apply page scaling factor ef Metadata Apply transfer function Center page content Change annotations print D Mr In this dialog you can add or remove actions fr
24. Manual This Reference Manual is split up into the following chapters E S KO KL 10 i Cut Preflight 1 Introduction Introduction The Introduction contains License Terms and Copyright information a small note on installation and an overview of the contents of the different chapters in this manual See ntroduction Files The Files chapter contains information on how to handle files new open save and the setups for printing See Files Viewing The Viewing chapter explains the i cut Preflight workspace how to set the view preview modes view options show separations how to navigate through a job zoom pan page browsing and the checking tools measure and densitometer tools See Viewing Editing The Editing chapter contains all editing functionality The selecting possibilities copy paste and undo redo are explained This chapter also gives an overview of all the tools available in i cut Preflight See Editing Appearance The Appearance chapter deals with the appearance fill paint stroke and transparency settings for all objects See Appearance Objects The Objects chapter contains information on how to create and modify objects drawing and editing predefined or freehand shapes and operations on multiple objects groups compounds clipping masks See Objects Text The Text chapter contains information on how to create and modify text and some font issues See Text Layters
25. Note If there isn t anything to snap to in the direction of the arrow key you use the Ruler will not move Ruler Transtormaton Window Double click the Ruler Tool to open the Ruler Transformation window 64 A Ruler Transformation E 7 17 mm Y 7 18 mm E S KO KL 92 i Cut Preflight 4 Editing Horizontal Vertical Offset Use the X Offset and Y Offset fields to set the horizontal and vertical position of the selection 4 4 10 Guide Tool elo The Guide Tool ais located under the Ruler Tool hold the mouse down on the Ruler Tool to show it This Tool allows you to use guides to position objects in your document Guides Window Go to Window Guides or double click the Guide Tool to open the Guides window 4 A Guides wi Show Guides Guide Sets Custom l HH Location Pmi EE This window allows you to manage your guides Operations on Guides Adding Guides To add a horizontal guide to your document you can either e double click where you want to create it click the _ button in the Guides window and enter the guide s position from the media box or the ruler if it is shown for example 10mm positions the guide 10 mm above the ruler s horizontal axis i Cut Preflight 4 Editing 53 ES AA Guides wi Show Guides Guide Sets Custom Location 9 00mm Pars To add a vertical guide to your document you can either e hold Option Mac o
26. Preflight Profile this Preflight Profile will be shown between angular brackets Incremental save Preflight Profile lt B amp W 1 Spot v3 0 gt Session comment Eege Cancel ee e Session comment you can enter a comment for the current session Click Save and Preflight to e save your document e preflight it with the Preflight Profile you chose e add all corrections made by the profile to the document e embed the profile into your document e start a new session Shortcut Option Command S Mac or Ctrl Alt S Windows 10 3 4 Certified Status You can see the Certified Status of the document in the tool bar Certified cr Note If you don t see the Certified Status indicator in the tool bar for example when opening i cut Preflight for the first time you need to add it see Customizing the Tool Bar Click the indicator to open a status window 1 0 E S KO d 164 i Cut Preflight 10 Certified PDF Unknown If a yellow icon with a question mark e is shown the file hasn t been saved with the Certify option yet so no profile is set The status window indicates that no profile is selected The window contains a Save and Preflight button Preflight Profile Status There is no Preflight Profile attached to this document Document Status This document does not contain any Certified PDF information PATA Close EE Error A red ico
27. Show list select it and click the I button 12 2 3 Submitting Files to a Workflow Once you have defined a connection between i cut Preflight s Shuttle and your workflow server s you can submit files to your workflow s 1 Goto File gt Launch Workflow This opens the Launch Workflow window Workflow A Queue Filter 4 Name LabelExpo 2 Mark Select WE OneUp S4R Route_on_File_Type Sales Kickoff_2010 Sales Kickoff 2010 KEP Parameters Trap Prepare and Create Trap Layer Minimum Ink Difference 10 0 Proof FlexProof Fit On Paper Yes ES Kap Reset To Defaults Cancel he A 2 Select the workflow you want to launch on your file in the workflow list 3 If your workflow has public parameters you can fill them in the same window For more information on public parameters see the Shuttle manual g Note If you want to go back to the default parameters values after changing them use the Reset To Defaults button 4 Click Launch to launch the workflow on your file 12 UE ESKO 182 i Cut Preflight 12 Advanced Editing a File in a Workflow and Resubmitting it You can use cut Preflight to edit a file being processed by a workflow Pause the processing of the file in the Shuttle window Open the file in i cut Preflight right click it in the list and choose Open Edit it as desired Save it This automatically resubmits it to the workflow A N
28. Text Guides Page Box Trap Find Cale ECE Done At first the Find bar only shows the Find functionality Click the grey triangle near Find to show the Replace functionality too Y Find all Je JE e Q Replace Ti Replace All YH Replace amp Find amp Find el Done Shortcut Command F Click the small triangle inside the search field to show more options iI Cut Preflight 7 Text 99 Qr Y Ignore Case Y Wrap Around vw Contains Starts With Whole Words Ignore Case By default the search is case insensitive Ignore Case is selected Deselect it to make the search case sensitive Wrap Around Select this option if you want the text to continue at the beginning of the page after it has reached the end for example if your cursor is mid way through a text field This is selected by default Contains Starts With Whole Words Choose if you want i cut Preflight to find e pieces of text that contain what you entered in the Find field this is the default option e pieces of text that start with what you entered in the Find field e whole words that match what you entered in the Find field Find Next ri Use this to find the next piece of text matching what you entered in the Find field All the Find options you set in the Find dialog Ignore Case Warp Around Contains are applied Shortcut Command G Find Previous GI Use this to find the previous piece of te
29. ade Y Objects with transparency settings have been found Object 1 Object 2 3 iI Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 37 Unsign Off You can unsign off an error for example if you think the sign off reason isn t valid To do this select the error and click the unsign off button A in the Severity area CH A Errors amp Warnings 0 en Show Preflight Report r i Description Reported By Document uses 4 separations should be equal to 1 Preflight Report RGB color is used Preflight Report Resolution of color or grayscale image is less than Preflight Report Objects with transparency settings have been found Preflight Report Resolution of color or grayscale image is less than Preflight Report Compression ratio of image is more than 10 Preflight Report 6060600608 VT TTT XY scaling difference of image is 13 99 Preflight Report Reported by Preflight Report Ou Severity Signed off with reason Transparency OK Partial Unsign Off To only unsign off one of the objects affected by a signed off error click the triangle beside the error select the object and click the unsign off button de in the Severity area CH TY Objects with transparency settings have been found Object 1 Object 2 3 4 5 PitStop Report Information You can use i cut Preflight to view the information errors warnings contained in a PitStop Report directly in the file Use this for files preflighted with PitStop Pro
30. also the leap into electronic typesetting remaining essentially unchanged BoldOblique 4 e b p 2 E It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum AN 0 AW Light passages and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker y gt LightOblique including versions of Lorem Ipsum Ay 0 00pt Oblique Align 0 00pt 0 00pt 0 00pt e 48 00pt AS o Word Spacing Character Spacing Min 65 3 Min 5 0 Desired 100 0 Desired 0 0 Max 101 0 Max 5 0 C Allow hyphenation Language Automatic Orientation IC du 7 3 lext Properties Double click the Type Tool to open the Object window called Text when text is selected which contains the text properties iI Cut Preflight 7 Text 103 OOGO Text Fortune Cookie Helvetica ES Regular H T 12 00pt ey Auto r o av 0 0 a 0 00pt Align E 0 00pt Zj 0 00pt 0 00pt e 0 00pt AE 0 Ward Spacing Character Spacing Min 50 0 Min 0 0 Desired 100 0 Desired 0 0 Max 200 0 Max 5 0 Allow hyphenation Language Spanish Orientation ie il Make sure that no other object is selected or the Object window will show Mixed Object Expand the Text window with the green button to see all the text properties I
31. and clicking on the Delete layer button iD You can only delete the current layer if your document contains other layers 8 1 5 Send to Current Layer When you click the Send to current layer button C the selected object s will be moved to the top of the current layer see Current Layer 8 1 6 Make Clipping In the Sort front to back view the contextual menu of an object contains the option Make Clipping this allows to clip with the selected object It only clips objects of the same group layer EN E S KO KL 114 i Cut Preflight 8 Layers 8 2 Arrange Objects in Layers 8 2 1 Bring to Front Brings the selected objects to the top of their layer or group The relative order of the selected objects will not change Shortcut Shift Command Mac or Ctrl Shift Windows 8 2 2 Bring Forward Moves the selected objects one level upwards in the layer or group The relative order of the selected objects will not change Shortcut Command Mac or Ctrl Windows 8 2 3 Send Backward Moves the selected objects one level downwards in the layer or group The relative order of the selected objects will not change Shortcut Command Mac or Ctrl Windows 8 2 4 Send to Back Sends the selected objects to the bottom of their layer or group The relative order of the selected objects will not change Shortcut Shift Command Mac or Ctrl Shift Windows 8 2 5
32. and height of the selection to a percentage of the original width height Dee Note You can flip mirror your selection by adding a minus sign in the Scale X or Scale Y field Use the Scale X field to mirror your selection horizontally and the Scale Y field to mirror it vertically You can also mirror horizontally or vertically using the functions in Object gt Transform See Mirror objects Rotation Use the Rotation field to rotate your selection counter clockwise To rotate it clockwise use the minus sign e g to rotate it clockwise by 90 degrees type 90 ei E S KO KL 90 i Cut Preflight 6 Objects shearing ry pes Use the Shear field to shear the selection by a certain angle In the example below shearing the selection on the left by 25 degrees gives the result on the right By default the selection is sheared to the right To shear it to the left use the minus sign 6 3 2 Mirror objects You can mirror the selected objects vertically or horizontally by selecting the objects and choosing Object gt Transform gt Mirror Vertically or Object gt Transform gt Mirror Horizontally The selected object s will be mirrored around the center of the bounding box 6 3 3 Scissors Tool The Scissors Tool pa becomes available by holding the mouse down on the Direct Selection Tool It allows you to either open an outline at a certain point or cut a closed outline in two parts Shortcut C
33. b Compression ratio of image is more Preflight with profile Ch bk Resolution of color or grayscale ima Preflight with profile O XY scaling difference of image is 13 Preflight with profile EI Removed OPI Preflight with profile Reported by Preflight with profile BAW EN Severity Error can be signed off CH 3 E S KO KL 36 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing sign Off When i cut Preflight encounters an error that you can sign off mark as approved it displays the sign off icon E3 beside it The types of errors that you can sign off are defined in the preflight profile you preflight your document with See Problem Categories To sign off the error click the sign off button in the Severity area This opens a window for you to enter the sign off reason Sign off reason Once an error has been signed off its icon changes to in the Errors and Warnings window acer Note After signing off an error you must Save and Preflight your document with the profile that generated the error you signed off See Save and Preflight The sign off reason is displayed in the Severity area the Preflight Report and the History window For more information on the History window see History Partial Sign Off You can choose to only sign off one of the objects affected by the error To do this click the triangle beside the error select the object and click the sign off button Ps in the Severity area
34. be 100 of the blend result 5 4 4 Mask If the object selected has a mask applied it will be shown here Opacity Mask Making an Opacity Mask 4 i Cut Preflight 5 Appearance OO OH Group Transparency al Opacity Mask Clip Invert Isolate Blending _ Knockout Group wi Opacity amp Mask define Knockout shape Multiply sl 75 0 Select the front and back objects you want to use for your opacity mask Go to Object Opacity Mask Make or use the shortcut Cmd 6 Mac or Ctrl 6 Windows The front object becomes an opacity mask on the other selected object s If you have several back objects i cut Preflight puts them in a new group that gets the front object as an opacity mask Both the opacity mask object and the other objects remain fully editable Shortcut Cmd 6 Mac or Ctrl 6 Windows De De Note If you want more than one object as opacity mask you should group these objects first Note If you selected only one object that object will get an empty opacity mask you can edit it in the Transparency window Releasing an Opacity Mask To remove the opacity mask from a group or object go to Object Opacity Mask Release or use the shortcut Cmd Option 6 Mac or Ctrl Alt 6 Windows The opacity mask will become a normal object Editing an Opacity Mask To edit an opacity mask double click its preview in the Transparency window It will be opened in a
35. center point Image 9 66 Cut Preflight 5 Appearance When using the Paint Tool on an image the image gets handles that allow you to move scale and rotate it If the ruler is shown its origin will be used as point of origin for the transformation Patterns When transforming patterns the single cell will get handles and a vertical and horizontal arrow will be shown D G sch The handles on the single cell allow you to move scale and rotate the cell If the ruler is shown its origin will be used as point of origin for the transformation The arrows allow to modify the step distance Mixed Paints When objects with mixed paints are selected the Paint Tool behaves just like the Transform Tool 5 2 2 Fill Paint Transformation window Double click the Paint Tool to open the Fill Paint Transformation window Cut Preflight 5 Appearance 67 AS Fill Paint Transformation Bog Xx 23 38 mm Y 247 61 mm TO 8 79 35 mm z 44 68 mm e Fel 91 5 68 7 oan Zei o 00 Using this window you can move rotate scale and shear an object s fill paint Point of Origin for the Transformation e lf the ruler is shown the origin of the ruler is used as origin for the transformation You can show hide the ruler with the ruler button Ss see also Exclude e If the ruler is hidden the origin of the transformation is a point from the bounding box of the selection You can
36. click the color patch to define the color representation for the separation b enter the name for the separation Default is CUT 3 Define how the cut path should be created e onthe union of all visible objects In that case you can choose to remove all holes from inside the cut path by enabling the Remove Holes option e on all objects in a specific separation Use this option when there already is a cut path in the file and it is either filled or stroked in a specific separation After using this option the original separation will be removed You can choose a separation from a dropdown e onall objects in a specific layer use this option when there already is a cut path in the file and it is put in a separate layer its color does not matter in this case The selected layer will be removed after using this option You can choose a layer from a dropdown e on the trim box 4 Define the Offset distance and corners for the cut path This will offset the cut path in the same way as the Offset CutPath function See Offsetting a cut path 5 If your document contains multiple pages you can also define if you want to create the cut path on all pages on the current page or on a specific set or range of pages 6 Click Create Cut Path The cut path is created in a new technical ink with the chosen color and name It is also put ina new layer on top of everything else 11 1 2 Trace Cut Path The Trace Cut Path tool allows to create a c
37. default Phase The Phase gives the rotation of the star relative to the horizontal axis i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 83 Inner radius The Inner radius defines the scale factor of the inner circle on which the inner star points are positioned in relation to the outer circle on which the star tips are set The smaller this ratio the sharper the star will be ace Note You can only edit the star parameters in the Star window if you have a star object selected Create a default star before changing the parameters 6 1 4 Polygon ef Sa r i i Drag the cursor with the Polygon Tool ato make a polygon The starting point will be its center and the end point will be its top To constrain the polygon to the constrain angle hold the Shift key Double click the Polygon Tool to open the Object window called Polygon in this case in which you can change the polygon s parameters AAA Polygon Points 5 Phase 30 00 Points Enter the number of points you want your polygon to have ei E S KO KL 34 Cut Preflight 6 Objects Phase The Phase gives the rotation of the polygon 6 2 Paths 6 2 1 Drawing a Path gr M Hold the mouse down on the Rectangle Tool to get the Pen Tool Shortcut P Click or drag your cursor to begin a new path Adding New Straight Line Segments e To add anew straight line segment click where you want the segment to end e To add a straight l
38. define a Page Width and Page Height e To use a predefined page size choose it in the Page Size list 2 1 2 Colors All new files contain the four process colors by default but you can change the separations available in the Separations window see Separations 2 2 Open You can open an existing PDF PDF 1 3 1 4 1 5 and 1 6 You can only open PDF files and Illustrator ai files if they are saved with PDF compatibility set to on in Illustrator iI Cut Preflight 2 Files 13 You can open a file by dropping it on the i cut Preflight icon in your Dock by using the Open function in the File menu or by using the Command O Mac or Ctrl O Windows shortcut ace Note You cannot open files larger than 10 x 10 meters You can only open PDF files including inPDF files and Illustrator ai files if they are saved with PDF compatibility set to on in Illustrator Trying to open another file type will generate a warning Shortcut Command O Mac or Ctrl O Windows 2 3 Open Recent The ten most recently opened PDF files can be opened quickly using the Open Recent list in the File menu 2 4 Close You can close a document using the red button in the upper left corner by the Close function in the File menu or by its shortcut Shortcut Command W Mac or Ctrl W Windows When closing the last window of a document that contains unsaved changes you will have the following options e Don t save Clos
39. left handles on the ruler the handles used are highlighted Resizing To resize scale the selected object s move the mouse over one of the eight handles and drag The F cursor will change to a horizontal vertical or diagonal double arrow Scaling is performed relative to the opposite corner or side unless the ruler is shown In that case scaling is relative to the ruler origin To constrain the scaling to be equal in both directions hold the Shift key Rotating Move the cursor slightly outside one of the handles to rotate the selected object s The rotation is relative to the center of the selection or to the ruler origin if it is shown Hold Shift to constrain the rotation to multiples of the constrain angle You can set the constrain angle in the Editing Preferences see Editing E S KO KL 50 i Cut Preflight 4 Editing Hold Command Mac or Ctrl Windows to snap to those angles when rotating the object 4 4 5 Edit Paint Tool ol The Edit Paint Tool allows you to modify the paint of selected objects e g shadings or pattern fill paint For more information see Paint Tool Double clicking on the Edit Paint Tool opens the Paint window see Fill Paint Stroke Paint and the Paint Transformation window see Fill Paint Transformation window 4 4 6 Pan tool Mp The Pan tool n enables you to navigate in the current view with the cursor For shortcuts see Panning 4 4 7 Zoom Tool T
40. of separations is shown in brackets CN If the image has an ICC profile a color management icon is shown beside the color space Type The file type is shown here Lossless Jpeg 9 6 2 Attach Detach ICC Profile To change an image s profile click its color space in the Color column and select Profile You can then attach a profile to the image by clicking on the profile name and detach a profile by clicking on None Convert Lossless Profile D None Y Europe ISO Coated FOGRA 2 7 SS Euroscale Coated v2 gt Cmyk Euroscale Uncoated v2 Generic CMYK Profile Japan Color 2001 Coated Japan Color 2001 Uncoated Japan Color 2002 Newspaper i Cut Preflight 9 Document 129 ER g Note You can attach detach a single ICC profile for all the images in the same color space e g CMYK by clicking on the first image in the list holding Shift while clicking on the last image and selecting an ICC profile or None in the list This operation only adds a profile information to the image which is then used for on screen display see also Working Color Spaces and further processing e g exporting an image or editing it To actually modify the image colors according to a profile you need to convert the image to this profile see Convert Image Color Space 9 6 3 Convert Image Color Space In i cut Preflight you can also convert an image s color space for final printing You can convert an
41. or a set of pages that you can define Preflight All Pages Current Page Page 1 e g 5 8 17 31 A Cancel a j Gre Note i cut Preflight will display the 5 last preflight profiles that you used in the Preflight sub menu GWG Packaging Offset v3 0 GWG Packaging Design HR v3 0 PDF X 4p Verify CmykVeryHiRes_lv4 CMYK 1 Spot v3 0 Standard i Local bs PDF Profiles fe Choose ER E S KO KL 152 1 Cut Preflight 9 Document 9 10 2 Managing Preflight Profiles Go to Document Manage Preflight Profiles to create edit or delete preflight profiles or preflight profiles groups This opens the Manage Preflight Profiles window ADO Manage Preflight Profiles Preflight Profiles v Lei Standard Generic Enfocus Preflight Profiles r va Ghent PDF Workgroup vg 2005 Specifications PDFX 1a r Le 2008 Specifications PDFX 1a F CmykVeryHiRes_1v4 9 MagazineAds_1v4 5 Mewspaper ds_1v4 9 SereenPrintCmyk_1v4 9 ScreenPrintSpot_lv4 9 SheetCmyk_lv4 9 SheetSpotHiRes_1v4 9 SheetSpotLoRes_1v4 SpotVeryHiRes_1v4 WebCmykHiRes_1v4 WebCmykNews_lv4 3 WebSpotHiRes_1v4 3 WebSpotNews_1lv4 va Packaging Specifications v2 va Packaging Specifications v3 va Standard PDFX Preflight Profiles p Local E PDF Profiles This window shows all preflight profiles and preflight profile groups organized in a tree structure It contains e Standard preflight profiles installed
42. the chosen page e End of document After the last page 9 3 2 Extract Page Extract Page in the Document menu allows to extract one or more pages from the current document The extracted pages will be added to a new document You can also choose to delete the original pages after they have been extracted This only works when not all pages are extracted Extract pages 2 to 2 of 3 Delete pages after extracting Cancel ER E S KO KL 120 11 Cut Preflight 9 Document 9 3 3 Delete Page Deletes one or more pages from the current document using the Delete Page function in the Document menu Deleting all pages is not possible Delete pages 2 to 2 of 3 9 4 Page Boxes 9 4 1 Page Box Tool The Page Box Tool edits the page boxes The Page Box Tool behaves a lot like the Transform Tool except that page boxes cannot be rotated You can view page boxes in the View Page Boxes window see View Page Boxes Window You can edit them either manually or in the Transformation window see Page Box Transformation window Media box iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 121 ER Move Drag inside the page box to move it Hold Shift to constrain the movement horizontally or vertically Hold Command Mac or Ctrl Windows while dragging to make the movement snap to the selection the nearest visible page box guide or the ruler You can also enter the position of the page box can also be entered in the T
43. the cursor is a double arrow All text in the box will automatically be re wrapped 106 i Cut Preflight 7 Text A Text Box will always contain the entire text If you resize the box or add text in it it will expand downwards if necessary 7 4 3 Split and Assemble Text Blocks If text blocks are defined incorrectly in your file e g if two different articles are recognized as one text block you can correct this withi cut Preflight about gloss for ages but we reckon it s time to bring back lippy It looks polished and se and good lippy is long lasting and moisturising Try Max Par TRF AE mp Lipfinity 29 95 4 You can split the text block into its original objects components and then create new text blocks from those components Splitting Text Blocks To split a text block into its original objects components letters words or lines depending on how the original PDF was created select it with the Selection or Transform Tool and go to Object Text Release Text Block i Cut Preflight 7 Text 107 A EFRRTEER 11 s been al about gloss for ages but we reckon it s time to bring back and good lippy is long lasting and moistunsing Try Max Factor Lipfinity 29 95 4 Reassembling Text Blocks To make a new text block out of original text objects components after splitting a text block select the part of the text to make into a text block with the Selection or Transform Too
44. this font but not edit it It you type characters in this text they will be in one of your system fonts Editable means although you don t have the font in your system you can edit the text using the embedded font or subset System means the font is installed on your system so you can edit the text without any restriction Unknown means i cut Preflight could not determine if you are allowed to edit the text in this font or not If you try to edit it i cut Preflight will ask you if you have a license for this font If you do you can click Yes and start editing the text Type This displays the fonts type technology which could be TrueType Type1 or Types 9 7 2 Change Font Embedding To change a font embedding select it and click the doublearrows in the Embedding column you can also select several fontsusing the Shift key and change their embedding at once In the pop up menu select the embedding of your choice None Subset or Full Embedding Full None dk Ak Ab Full Change embedding to None You can always change the embedding to None This will remove the embedded font from the PDF document iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 135 g Note This could cause a visual change to the document becausea system font will be used to view the text If there is no corresponding system font on the computer opening the file missing glyph symbols Ll
45. to CMYK 9 5 6 Separations across the Document To view the separations information for another page or all pages of the document click the Show Pages button 0 O Click the desired page to display its separations or double click the page to display it in the main window To view the separations for all pages of the document click All Pages Pages All Pages Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 I Cut Preflight 9 Document 127 When All Pages is selected you can add delete or remap separations in all pages of the document at once 9 6 Images 9 6 1 Document Images To view and modify the images information for a single page the whole document go to the Images window Window Images or click the E button from the Separations or Fonts window The information is sorted into six columns Preview image This column displays a preview of each image Click the column header to sort the images back to front the image at the very back of the page being shown at the top or front to back Name This column shows the image file name without the extension or Embedded if the image is embedded If the image appears more than once a count of appearances is also displayed Click an image to select it or double click to Zoom in on it ao Images a Name Resolution Size Color Type E P Embedded gt 257 8 dpi 3073 x 2719 px Cmyk Lossless Ki b Embedded gt 352 7 dpi 433 x 440 px Cm
46. to Saved This function reverts the current document to the state it was in when last saved with Save Save As or Save and Preflight This is particularly useful to avoid having to undo several actions ace Note Revert to Saved cannot be undone by Command Z or Ctrl Z 2 9 Page Setup This option in the File menu opens the standard Mac OS Page setup window Shortcut Shift Command P ESKO E 2 10 Print 2 10 1 Printing to Pdf Outputting the file as PDF retains all of its features layers transparencies separation control This can be done in 3 different ways in the Print window e Using the PDF button and clicking Save as PDF e Using the PDF button and selecting one of the predefined PDF related actions e g Compress PDF g Note These predefined actions are only available in Mac OSX Tiger or later e Choosing a PDF enabled printer This is generally a workflow e g created with Odystar or Nexus Print Printer Commercial CMYK and Spot H Copies amp Pages Copies 1 Collated Pages All From 1 to 1 C PDF w Preview Save as PDF Save PDF as PostScript Fax PDF Compress PDF Encrypt PDF Mail PDF Save As Certified PDF Save as PDF X Save PDF to iPhoto Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder Edit Menu i Cut Preflight 2 Files 17 g Note Only the page range of the Print window is taken into acco
47. will only be able to edit it partially or not at all No Editing Possible If the font license is Viewing you can t edit the text at all Editing Restrictions If the font has a System license you have the font on your system you can edit the text without restrictions However if the font license is Editable you have permissions but don t have the font on your system editing can be restricted in some cases e If the font is only embedded as a subset editing is restricted to the characters included in the subset You can delete and type those characters but if you type non subset characters they will be shown as missing glyph symbols LI e f the font is fully embedded but you type characters not defined in the font e g foreign characters or special characters they will be shown as missing glyph symbols You should switch to a font that has these characters to show them correctly ESKO KL 110 i Cut Preflight 7 Text Unknown License In some cases i cut Preflight cannot determine if you have a license for a particular font or not When trying to edit text in this font i cut Preflight will ask you if you have a license for it If you do you can click Yes and start editing the text I Cut Preflight 8 Layers 111 ES 6 Layers 3 1 Layers Window 3 1 1 View Layers You can show lock and print layers individually 6 6 Layers ek Layer 3 Fi ell el gt Layer 2 Qu w
48. 1 Preparation for i cut i cut Preflight contains a number of functions and tools specific for the collaboration with i cut Layout or i cut Automate These allow you to Define and edit the cut path Add nicks to the cut path Add bleed Create white underprint 11 1 Adding or changing a Cut Path In i cut Preflight you can add or edit a Cut Path that can be used in i cut Layout You can create a cut path on linework using Preparation gt Cut Path Tools gt Create Cut Path See Creating a Cut Path Use the Trace Path tool to trace the edges of an image to create a cut path See Trace Cut Path on page 167 Make a Cut Path bigger or smaller over an offset distance using Preparation gt Cut Path Tools gt Offset Cut Path See Offsetting a cut path Make a Cut Path smoother using Preparation gt Cut Path Tools gt Smooth Cut Path See Smoothing a Cut Path i i a LES L i Add Nicks to a Cut Path using the Nicks tool See Adding Nicks to a Cut Path 11 1 1 Creating a Cut Path 166 1 Select Preparation gt Cut Path Tools gt Create Cut Path The Create Cut Path dialog will open I Cut Preflight Create Cut Path Re CUT Using The union of all visible objects A Remove holes Objects in separation Objects in layer Trim box Offset Cut Path 0 00 mm a d E Create Cut Path On D All Pages Gei Current Page Page 1 e g 5 8 17 31 2 Define the Separation to be used for the cut path a
49. 2 1 2 hours including cooling time utrition Profile ow cholesterol Low saturated fat Low sodium Heart healthy Example 2 You want to put all occurrences of lorem ipsum in italics 1 Go to Edit Find Find or use Command F and type lorem ipsum in the Find field of the Find dialog g Note You can also select the word lorem ipsum in your document and go to Edit Find Use Selection for Find or Command E Note that this doesn t open the Find dialog 2 If necessary use options to refine your search For example e Select Ignore Case so Lorem ipsum and Lorem Ipsum will also be found H ESKO KL 102 i Cut Preflight 7 Text e Select Wrap Around so words at the beginning of the page will also be found for example if your cursor is mid way through a text field 3 Click the All button or use Option Command G to find and select all occurrences in the text 4 Open the Text window and make those occurrences italic Y Find 4 Found All dD Lorem Ipsum Replace I Replace All j Replace amp Find D NNN DE Al O Text Lorem IpsumLorem Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry Lorem Ipsum has a eel been the industry s standard dummy tex ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer Helvetica d Regular took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book It has survived not only TI 12 00pt e Bold f five centuries but
50. 5 55 Decision Test Hold B Workflow e candy_front 23 04 2010 15 41 RIP Test Proofing RIP B li Process GG candy_front 23 04 2010 15 41 decorate Decorate B Time Box 10 pdf 23 04 2010 15 27 Default Track Edit 5 admin a candy front od 22 04 2010 17 34 TrapWF Workflow B More Info a candy_front pdf 22 04 2010 17 34 TrapWF Workflow B P Files untitled pdfpla 22 04 2010 16 25 Default Track Edit 5 admin equinox_original pdf 22 04 2010 16 10 Default Track Edit 5 admin P Messages pattern pdf 22 04 2010 13 46 Copy2MyFolder Copy or Mo B a doodle pdf 21 04 2010 15 36 LabelExpo_2 Workflow Keizer D dip imp 21 04 2010 12 15 LabelExpo_2 Workflow admin report2 pdf 21 04 2010 12 10 Default Track Edit 5 admin reportl pdf 21 04 2010 12 10 Default Track Edit 5 admin hydraqua_orange pdf 20 04 2010 09 43 My_S amp R 2 Step amp Rep admin hydraqua_orange pdf 16 04 2010 18 10 My_S amp R2 Step amp Rep admin hydraqua_orange pdf 16 04 2010 18 09 My SERA Step amp Rep admin hydraqua_orange pdf 16 04 2010 17 19 My_S amp R2 Step amp Rep admin hydraqua_orange pdf 16 04 2010 17 18 My S amp R Step amp Rep admin K_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ __ _ __ _ __ __ Te 2 E Tip You can resize the window to see more information if needed The Shuttle window shows each file s name status the workflow the file is in etc From that window you can e check your file s processing in the workflow O hol
51. 50 gray the image is lightened as if it were dodged If the blend color is darker than 50 gray the image is darkened as if it were burned in Hard Light Multiplies or screens the colors depending on the blend color The effect is similar to shining a harsh spotlight on the image If the blend color light source is lighter than 50 gray the image is lightened as if it were screened This is useful for adding highlights to an image If the blend color is darker than 50 gray the image is darkened as if it were multiplied This is useful for adding shadows to an image Color Dodge Looks at the color information in each channel and brightens the base color to reflect the blend color Blending with black produces no change Color Burn Looks at the color information in each channel and darkens the base color to reflect the blend color Blending with white produces no change Darken Looks at the color information in each channel and selects the base or blend color whichever is darker as the result color Pixels lighter than the blend color are replaced and pixels darker than the blend color do not change This blend mode is often used for traps Lighten Looks at the color information in each channel and selects the base or blend color whichever is lighter as the result color Pixels darker than the blend color are replaced and pixels lighter than the blend color do not change Diference Blend object color and Bas
52. Color buttons are available when your file is in Preview or Page mode e Colors this shows all separations in their appropriate colors e Black this shows all separations in grayscale Use this with the View Separations window to check the file separation by separation as they would appear on film See View Separations Window e Negative this shows all separations in grayscale and inverted Orientation LV The Orientation buttons HU it easier to correct e g imposition pages allow you to rotate your document s preview This makes Gre Note This only rotates the preview When saving your document it will have the same orientation as it did initially iI Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 25 Selections When the Selections option is enabled i cut Preflight shows selected paths in the Selection color defined in the Preferences see Viewing When it is disabled it doesn t show selected paths By default this option is enabled Outlines In Outline mode the Outlines option is always on Enable it in Preview and Page mode to make the outlines visible Strokes Enable the Strokes option to make the outline of strokes visible in Outline mode and when selecting Clips The Clips option will make clipping paths visible in Outline mode In Preview and Page mode it will make them visible when you select them and when the Outline option is on Comments Enable the Comments option to display notes added in e g
53. Cyan TI Cyan HH Magenta Magenta L i E Yellow Yellow PA Black 1 Black HH IB PANTO Blue cv None EA IT dielines None HH _ Registration Overprint The File name is shown the dimension of the image in pixels and the real resolution The real resolution can differ from the file resolution A 300 dpi image scaled at 50 will show a real resolution of 600 dpi To select a different image click the Folder icon in front of the file name this opens a browser window Channel Mapping The Separation list shows the channel mapping by default the channels CMYK are mapped in their respective separation You can remap any separation using the drop down menus The use of an Opacity channel is explained below The checkbox in front of the drop down menu allows to invert the channel E S KO KL 62 i Cut Preflight 5 Appearance Opacity If an opacity is used the Opacity channel defines where the image is transparent or opaque the image is knocking out the background with the value of the opacity channel at that place If the Opacity channel is 100 the image will be knocking out completely If the Opacity channel is 60 at a certain place the image will be knocking out the background for 60 meaning 60 of the image channels will be mixed with 40 of the background Where the opacity channel is 0 the image is completely transparent Editing an image Double click the preview in the Fill Paint window
54. D ch Resubmitting a File with the Same Public Parameters If e you have set up the Parameter Assistant on your Odystar or Nexus server e you have submitted a file to one of that server s workflows using public parameters you can resubmit that file to the same workflow queue using the same public parameters without having to enter them again Gre Note For more information about setting up the Parameter Assistant on your workflow server please see the Shuttle manual When resubmitting the file to the same workflow queue containing public parameters the Launch Workflow dialog contains a Use Previous button Workflow A Queue Filter k Name LabelExpo 2 Mark Select WE OneUp S4R Route_on_File_Type Sales Kickoff 2010 Sales_Kickoff_2010_KEP Parameters _ _ _ __ _ Trap Prepare and Create Trap Layer Minimum Ink Difference 10 0 Proof FlexProof Fit On Paper Yes ES SS wee Reset To Defaults Use Previous Cancel Launch 12 Gut Preflight 12 Advanced 183 Click this button to reuse the same public parameters for this file 12 2 4 Shuttle Window The Shuttle window shows all files belonging to you or to all users in all workflows your Shuttle is connected to Go to Window Shuttle to open the Shuttle window 00 Shuttle Search Criteria Name Name Workflow Process User Status te O candy_front 23 04 2010 1
55. Hide palettes when they are visible Shortcut F8 Mac 3 2 Views 3 2 1 New View New View in the View menu opens a new window for the current document Both windows have their own view options 3 2 2 Switch Views If multiple files are open the bottom part of the Window menu lists all open document windows so you can bring another document to the front boost pdf candy_front pdf car pdf Y granum_box_frstfrt pdf hydraqua_orange pdf Shortcut Command Mac 3 2 3 Tile Views 22 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing Tile Views Vertical Horizontal Panes Stack Vertical Divides the available space vertically among all open windows Horizontal Divides the available space horizontally among all open windows Panes All the open windows are laid out like a mosaic on the available space Stack All the open windows are stacked on top of each other 3 2 4 Synchronize Views This option available from the View menu enables you to synchronize several views of the same file generated by the New View option see New View This means that the zooming and panning that you apply to one of the windows will automatically be applied to the other windows as well 3 2 5 View Options Window Go to Window View Options to open the View Options window 3 iI Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 23 OO View Options Preview CE sl cal Color a Orientation Me LIES wi Selections wi Comments C Outlines M O
56. I information E Fage Remove alternate images E Document Remove OPI Metadata Resample image Select by alternate images 4 Select by image resolution e You can also use the search field to display certain actions for example type OPI in it to display all OPI related actions a Search Add To Favorites You can add an action to your Favorites so you can find it easily next time you define an Action List To do this select it click the Action ES button and choose Add To Favorites g Note To remove an action from your Favorites select it in the Favorites category click the Action button and choose Remove From Favorites Add To Action List To add an action to your Action List select it in the actions panel and either e double click it e drag it to the second panel O click the D button The bottom part of the Selected Actions panel will contain all the actions you added to this Action List E S KO a 144 i Cut Preflight 9 Document Selected Actions Q Action List Info Action List Locking Select all Check OP path Change OPI info ar Note lf you add actions in an incorrect order like in the picture below the Add Action List window will show one or more error icons Hover on the icon to get information about the error Select all AND OR Change spot color Grouping Actions in Action Lists You can group actions in your action list to organize them be
57. If User Management is not enabled you will be able to access any workflow on your server In this case you can enter any user name you like without a password it will only be used for filtering files in the Shuttle window e When connecting to an Odystar server you will be able to access any workflow on your server You can enter any user name you like without a password it will only be used for filtering files in the Shuttle window ac Note If you don t know which User Name and Password to use contact your system administrator 4 To connect to a server broadcasting over the Bonjour network Odystar servers or Bonjour enabled Nexus servers 1 2 S KO E 180 i Cut Preflight 12 Advanced a select Bonjour in the Browse Method list b select your server s name in the Bonjour list cs Note You don t have to enter the server address and server port manually 5 To connect to a server not broadcasting over the Bonjour network Automation Engine servers or non Bonjour enabled Nexus servers a select Manual in the Browse Method list b enter your server s name or IP address in Server Address c fill in the Server Port used by your server E Note When connecting to an Odystar server enter the port used for SOAP communication between Shuttle and your Odystar Hub When connecting to a Nexus server enter the Listening Port of the NexusSOAPServer When connecting to an Automation Engine server enter the p
58. LT Windows and drag it with the mouse Duplicating Guides To duplicate a guide select it click the gt button in the Guides window and select Duplicate selected guides Deleting Guides To delete a guide you can either e select it and press the Backspace or the Forward Delete key select it and click the button in the Guides window g Note You can move rotate duplicate or delete several or all guides at once Showing Hiding Guides e To show guides enable the Show Guides option in the Guides window or go to View Show Guides e To hide guides disable the Show Guides option in the Guides window or go to View Hide Guides ace Note You can also use the Shift Command R Mac or Ctrl shift R Windows shortcut to show or hide your guides Creating a Guide Set When you create guides i cut Preflight stores them temporarily in a Custom guide set Cut Preflight 4 Editing 55 4 A Guides wi Show Guides Guide Sets Locatiot Save As E 20 00m Delete Import Export As 20 00mi They are saved in the document when you save it they will still be in the document after closing and reopening it To be able to use the guides in another document 1 Use the Save As function in the Guide Sets list 2 Choose a name for the guide set Please enter a name for this guide set A4 Covers Guide Set ra F hi fj F F Maie
59. Lock Locks the selected objects Locked objects are shown in gray in Outline view mode Objects can also be un locked individually in the Layers window See View Layers Shortcut Command 2 Mac or Ctrl 2 Windows 8 2 6 Unlock All Unlock all locked objects I Cut Preflight 8 Layers 115 ES Shortcut Option Command 2 Mac or Ctrl Alt 2 Windows 8 2 7 Hide Hide the selected objects They are no longer visible and thus cannot be selected or edited Still they are saved with the file so they will become visible again when the file is next opened Objects can also be hidden and shown individually in the Layers window See View Layers Shortcut Command 3 Mac or Ctrl 3 Windows 8 2 8 Show All Makes all hidden objects visible again Shortcut Option Command 3 Mac or Ctrl Alt 3 Windows ESKO 116 i Cut Preflight 9 Document 9 Document 9 1 Document Information Go to Window Document to open the Document window containing information about your document OO Document Info Title boost Author Wim Wylock Subject Keywords Y File Name boost pdf Version 1 5 Size 5 8MB Pages 1 Y History Producer ArtPro 8 1 Creator ArtPro 8 1 Created 01 02 2006 09 54 Modified 01 02 2006 08 54 Sessions 1 Y Security Ownership None Encryption None Restrictions E Editing wi Printing
60. Note that this doesn t open the Find dialog 2 If necessary use options to refine your search For example I Cut Preflight 7 Text 101 e Select Ignore Case so the word Apple will also be found e Select Wrap Around so words at the beginning of the page will also be found for example if your cursor is mid way through a text field e Choose Start With so the search will find apples as well as apple g Note Do not choose Contains if you don t want pineapple to be replaced with pineorange 3 Type orange in the Replace field of the Find dialog ar Note You can also select the word orange in your document and go to Edit Find Use Selection for Replace or Shift Command E 4 If you want to o check each occurrence as it is replaced Use the Next button D or Command G then the Replace amp Find button or Command L e replace all occurrences at once use Replace All or Option Shift Command L Find All ME gt Q apple Replace HM Replace All AC Replace amp Find y orange D Done hredded apple replaces some of the oil and keeps the cake moist in these cinnamon spiked upcakes There is a generous amount of fluffy marshmallow frosting to mound or pipe on top for a estive look Be sure to frost them right after you make the frosting it stiffens as it stands and ecomes more difficult to spread 12 cupcakes ctive Time 1 hour otal Time
61. Quality Control tools without needing to open the file You can see if your file is a Normalized PDF or not in the Document window Window Document in the File section ARA Document b Info File POF 1 6 Normalized 26 0KB Y History Producer PDFOut v3 1 build 2024 Sen Creator Esko PackEdge 7 0 NT Sep 27 20 Created 06 12 2007 20 47 Modified 06 12 2007 20 47 Sessions O P Security None When editing a Normalized PDF in i cut Preflight it will de normalize it and remove its normalized label This ensures that when putting the file back into a Normalized workflow it will be treated as a non normalized file and re normalized if necessary 9 3 Pages 9 3 1 Insert Page The Insert Page function in the Document menu allows to insert one or more pages into the current document i Cut Preflight 9 Document 119 Insert fei Empty page Pages to of 1 from file Where Beginning of document Before page On top of page 1 of 1 Gei After page End of document Insert You can insert an empty page or one or more pages from a PDF file Where Here you can choose where to insert the chosen page s e Beginning of document Before the first page e Before page Before the chosen page e On top of page Merge with the chosen page This option will only be available when inserting from an existing PDF file see above It is also only possible to insert a single page e After page After
62. TO Open an Outline 1 Select the outline with the Direct Selection Tool 2 With the Scissors Tool double click the point where you want to open it 3 With the Direct Selection Tool move this point away from the rest of the outline i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 91 e Dee To Cut a Closed Outline in Two Parts 1 Select the outline with the Direct Selection Tool 2 With the Scissors Tool click the first point 3 Click the second point 4 Pull one of the parts away from the other one ace Note To delete the part of the object you have cut out click it with the Scissors Tool and press the Backspace key ac Note The Scissors Tool doesn t create new objects but makes a compound of the current object If you want to get two separate objects after cutting select the compound and either go to menu Object Compound Release or press Option Shift Command 8 Mac or Ctrl Alt 8 Windows For more information on compounds see Compound Path ei E S KO KL 92 i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 6 4 Operations on Several Objects 6 4 1 Align The Align function can be used to horizontally or vertically align or distribute a number of objects The first row is to align or distribute all objects vertically the second row to align or distribute all objects horizontally A B Align Align Of fo Do Distribute T Du o The first button aligns all object to the top of the bounding box of the selection the se
63. The selected objects Where Only outside cut path E CUT HH Only outside the trim box Bleed Distance 2 00 mm fa d D Clone From 0 20 mm The bleed color will be cloned from inside the cut path using this distance Create On All Pages Current Page Page e g 5 8 17 31 e Cancel e 2 Define if you want to add bleed to all visible objects or only to the selected objects 3 Define where bleed needs to be added e on the outside of the cut path In case the file contains more than one cut path you can select it from the dropdown e outside of the trim box 4 Define the Bleed Distance and corners for the bleed 5 Define the Clone From distance In normal circumstances the color just on the inside of the cut path is cloned to fill the bleed area However in case of a small misregistration of the graphics inside the cut path and the cut path itself it could happen that the area just on the inside of the cut path is white To prevent from cloning such a white area the Clone from distance can be used to go a little bit to the inside of the cut path and start cloning from that point 171 UE ESKOS I Cut Preflight 6 If your document contains multiple pages you can also define if you want to add bleed on all pages on the current page or on a specific set or range of pages 7 Click Add Bleed The bleed will be added in a separate layer on top of the job 11 3 Create White Und
64. Using an Existing Guide Set Once you have saved a guide set you can see it in the Guide Sets list for all your documents CH OH Guides wi Show Guides Guide Sets W Custom H Locatia A4 Covers Guide Set J Save AS Delete Import Export bm gt Select it to add the saved guides to your document s 4 E S KO KL 56 i Cut Preflight 4 Editing F Note If you have PitStop Pro the Guide Sets list also contains all your PitStop Pro guide sets You will also be ableto use your i cut Preflight guide sets in PitStop Pro Importing a Guide Set You can import a guide set for example saved by another user on another machine and use it in your documents To do this 1 Select the Import function in the Guide Sets list 2 Browse to your guide set gds file 3 Give your guide set file a name or keep its existing name Please enter a name for this guide set AG Flyers Guide Set You can now choose it in the Guide Sets list A Guides Ad Covers Guide Set Guide Sets REA O Locatiot Save As E 5 00mm Delete Import Export bg 5 00mm o Exporting a Guide Set You can export a guide set and use it on another machine for example To do this 1 Select the Export function in the Guide Sets list 2 Use the browser window that opens to save your guide set as a gds file with the name and in the lo
65. Vertical size the Horizontal size and the location based on the Trim Box or the center of the ruler See Object Transformation 3 4 4 Errors amp Warnings Every time i cut Preflight encounters an error warning e g viewing a page with an error it will open the Errors amp Warnings window automatically i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 33 O Errors Warnings 6 Show Preflight with profile B amp W Al Description Reported By o Document uses 4 separations shoul Preflight with profile bk RGB color is used Preflight with profile wel hb Resolution of color or grayscale ima Preflight with profile wel Objects with transparency settings h Preflight with profile O hb Compression ratio of image is more Preflight with profile Ch hb Resolution of color or grayscale ima Preflight with profile Ch XY scaling difference of image is 13 Preflight with profile Cj b Removed OPI Preflight with profile Reported by Preflight with profile BAW 5 C msan pira Se Verity This windows shows all errors mM errors that can be signed off An see Sign Off signed off errors warnings O fixes Cs information that the page document contains These can be Document errors or warnings Open Document faulty pages glyphs of a font missing Preflight errors warnings and fixes Preflight Report errors and warnings found or fixes performed when preflightin
66. aint Tool and click the Stroke square in the Paint window See Fill Paint Stroke Paint i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 89 e e To modify the Page Boxes select the Page Box Tool See Page Box Transformation window e To move the Ruler select the Ruler Tool See Ruler Transformation Window Point of Origin for the Transformation e f the ruler is shown the origin of the ruler is used as origin for the transformation You can show hide the ruler with the ruler button CN see also Ruler Tool e If the ruler is hidden the origin of the transformation is a point from the bounding box of the selection You can select this point with the Reference Point button For example if you select the bottom left Reference Point the bottom left corner of the bounding box is used as origin of the transformation It will remain in place when scaling rotating or shearing the selection Horizontal Vertical Offset x ise the Onset and Y Offset i p selection fields to set the horizontal and vertical position of the e When the ruler is shown the position is defined relative to the ruler s origin e When the ruler is hidden the position is defined relative to the bottom left corner of your document Width Height a a d Use the Width and Height fields to set the width and height of the selection in the units defined in the Preferences see General Units a Use the Scale X and Scale Y M fields to scale the width
67. arance enable the Arrow icons in front of the parameters you want to select and click the Select by appearance arrow at the bottom right of the window In the example below clicking the Select by appearance arrow will select all Cyan objects with no stroke without taking into account their transparency AA Appearance e Ex int MN dk Ga Stroke NJ Cal Trans Default Bi To kh CA Ces Note Click the arrow at the bottom left to enable disable all the appearance parameters arrows Applying an Appearance to Objects Once you have defined an appearance enable the Paint Bucket icons in front of the parameters you want to apply and click the Apply Appearance to selection paint bucket at the bottom right of the window In the example below clicking the Apply Appearance to selection paintbucket will apply a Soft Light transparency to all selected objects but will not change their fill or stroke paint Oo Appearance EJ m MN hl Stroke NJ IEN Trans Soft Light eis IS Es E a Cut Preflight 5 Appearance 79 Note Click the paint bucket at the bottom left to enable disable all the appearance parameters paint buckets ei E S KO KL 80 i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 6 Objects 6 1 Shapes F You can choose different shapes by holding the mouse down on the Rectangle tool z The available shapes are Rectangle Ellipse Star and Polygon Each shape created gets t
68. ath Layer 2 AA Layers Ae Layers el el gt Layer 3 L ei r Layer 3 ei el el P Layer 2 l E el Y Layer 1 a ell el gt Layer 1 Fi el Path ERRE el k Layer E ell Path ell Path a gt a E Y al Sort Front to Back This option E allows to see the contents of a layer in a tree structure Click the triangle in front of a layer to view this layer s contents You can also expand groups and see their contents in a tree structure CH OH Layers e el y Layer 2 ell Je Text Box el Path K a dei Y Group O EH Star o ell Te Path Oo el Tel gt Layer 1 Es KR m l In this case a layer name can appear more than once in the list to show the correct nesting order see Nested Layers I Cut Preflight 8 Layers 113 ES The layers are ordered by name so you don t have a tree structure Each layer name is shown only once Note This may not reflect the correct order al Scroll to Selection 3 Shows the position of the object you selected in the document within the layer structure 8 1 2 Edit Layer Name To edit a layer s name double click it and type the new name 8 1 3 New Layer A new layer can be added by clicking the New Layer button al The Layer will be named Layer n automatically You can change the name by double clicking it see Edit Layer Name 8 1 4 Delete Layer You can delete a layer by selecting it i e clicking where the blue square should be see View Layers
69. cation of your choice Gut Preflight 4 Editing 57 Deleting a Guide Set To delete a guide set select it then click the button in the Guides window 4 4 11 Rectangle Tool The Rectangle Tool 4 allows you to draw rectangles and squares For more information see Rectangle Double click on it to open the Object window with rectangle parameters Shortcut M 4 4 12 Ellipse Tool The Ellipse Tool uallows you to draw ellipses and circles For more information see Ellipse Shortcut L 4 4 13 Star Tool The Star Tool allows you to draw stars For more information see Star Double click on it to open the Object window with star parameters 4 4 14 Polygon Tool A i e The Polygon Tool a allows you to draw polygons For more information see Polygon Double click on it to open the Object window with polygon parameters 4 4 15 Pen Tool sl f dr The Pen Tool a allows you to draw custom shapes Paths For more information see Paths Double click on it to open the Object window with paths parameters ESKOS Shortcut P 58 i Cut Preflight 4 Editing 4 4 16 Type Tool You can use the Type Tool to create or transform a Text Box see Text Boxes and select a piece of text to edit it see Select Text You can also use it to link text blocks text that no longer fits in a text block will overflow in the text block it is linked to See Text Linking Double clicking on the T
70. ck the Fill or Stroke square in the Paint window see Fill Paint Stroke Paint then click the Paint Tool Flat Paint or No Paint These cannot be edited Axial Shading iI Cut Preflight 5 Appearance 65 For an axial shading the start and end point are shown connected by a line You can drag either start or end point to move it individually or drag the line to move them both at the same time You can also rotate the shading around its center by moving the mouse slightly outside the start or end point Rotation can be constrained to the constrain angle see Constrain angle using the Shift key or Snapped to it using the Command key Mac or Ctrl key Windows Radial Shading For a radial shading both the inner and outer circle are shown together with their centers When first creating a Radial shading the centers are exactly on top of each other and the inner circle has no radius E Note For a better looking radial shading always keep the inner circle inside of the outer circle Move To move both circles at the same time just click and drag inside the circles To move one of the circles individually first dissociate the circles centers by dragging the center point then click and drag the center point of the circle you wish to move Resize To resize one of the circles click and drag the circumference of the circle To resize the inner circle for the first time start dragging from slightly outside its
71. cond to the center the third to the bottom The two following buttons allow to divide the center points or to divide the space in between Se CC y EH RES es o ET Original Distribute on Distribute on objects center points distances 6 4 2 Compound Path i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 93 e Make Makes a compound path of the selected objects With Make Compound all selected paths will become one single object The compound is inserted at the location of the topmost object Where paths are overlapping a look through window to the background Is created As a compound is one object it can have only one color so when paths with different colors are compounded they will be filled with the color of the topmost object Shortcut Command 8 Mac or Ctrl 8 Windows Release Releases a compound path A new path will be made for every outline in the compound Shortcut Option Shift Command 8 Mac or Ctrl Shift 8 Windows Selecting a Path from a Compound To select and or move a path inside a compound use the Direct Selection Tool and select all anchor points 6 4 3 Group Make All the selected objects will be put in a new group The group is created at the location of the topmost object so some objects may come forward All objects in the group will keep their own color and individual order Shortcut Command G Mac or Ctrl G Windows ei E S KO KL 94 i Cut Preflight 6 Objects R
72. containing eal files Click the Action 1 button and select Export group name This opens a finder window where you can define the name and location of the exported folder Sort Action Lists Groups You can select an Action List or a group and drag it up or down in the tree structure 9 10 Preflightino With i cut Preflight you can preflight your PDF files with preflight profiles A preflight profile is a collection of checks and fixes to correct your PDF files and make them print ready For more information about preflight profiles please see the Enfocus Knowledge Base http www enfocus com kboverview php 9 10 1 Preflighting a Document with a Preflight Profile To preflight a document without saving it e g to test a preflight profile you just created go to Document Preflight F Note To preflight your document as part of the Certification process use the Save and Preflight function in the File menu See Save and Preflight You can choose to iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 151 ER e usea Standard preflight profile installed with i cut Preflight e usea Local preflight profile that you made yourself e use a preflight profile created in an older version of i cut Preflight or another application under PDF Profiles e browse to a preflight profile file ppp using Choose You then need to decide if you want to preflight all pages of the document the current page only
73. d D release O delete O or abort the processing of a file e filter the file s list to see only certain files O see only your files A or everybody s files de see more information in the Inspector panel click O See the Shuttle manual for more details 12 184 i Cut Preflight 12 Advanced Note You can see the number of files requiring attention that you need to route in the workflow on the Shuttle icon in the tool bar D Shuttle Clicking the icon opens the Shuttle window To add the Shuttle icon to the tool bar see Customizing the Tool Bar
74. degrees gives the result on the right By default the selection is sheared to the right To shear it to the left use the minus sign 5 3 Stroke Window The Stroke window can be used to put a line around open orclosed paths The stroke has his own paint that can be defined in the Paint window 6 8 BA Stroke Width 2 00 pt Cap E Miter Limit 4 00 Join fe E E Dashed dash gap dash gap dash gap i Cut Preflight 5 Appearance 69 9 3 1 Width The line width for the stroke The line width is always symmetrical the inside and the outside distance are the same Cap The caps can be Butt Round or Square e With Butt caps the stroke ends exactly at the end points of a path e With Round caps the stroke is rounded at the end points of a path prolonging the path slightly e With Square caps the stroke continues beyond the end points of the path at a distance equal to half of the line width and has a square ending JOIN The join can be Mitered Round or Bevel This is similar to the cap but is applied to joined paths Miter Limit A miter corner closes in one point In order to avoid the resulting corner becoming too sharp it can be cut off The distance where the corner is cut off is controlled by the Miter Limit When the limit is reached you can then have a sharp corner Dashed Stroke The dashed stroke characteristics are controlled by the width o
75. e e Layer 1 e To show hide a layer click the eye icon in front of the layer name e To lock unlock a layer click the lock icon in front of the layer name e To make a layer printable exclude it from printing click the printer icon in front of the layer name ac Note Hold Option Mac or ALT Windows while clicking on the eye lock or printer icon to apply that action to all the layers on the same level show hide lock unlock or make printable exclude from printing Current Layer ae df op A pencil icon on the right of the layer name indicates that this layer is the current layer This means that if you create a new object it will be placed at the top of this layer When you create a new document there is only one layer which is the current layer When you have several layers you can make one of them the current layer by clicking in the square on the right g Note Making a layer current doesn t select it and you can still select and edit objects in layers which are not the current layer EN E S KO KL 112 i Cut Preflight 8 Layers Selected Layer A blue square next to the layer indicates that this layer and all of the objects it contains or at least one of its objects is selected Nested Layers Depending on the application that created the PDF its layers can be nested In this case it is possible that one object of Layer 1 is on top of Layer 2 while another object of Layer 1 is underne
76. e object color are subtracted from one another and the absolute value is taken This blend mode has no effect on spot colors Exclusion Creates an effect similar to but lower in contrast than the Difference mode Blending with white inverts the base color values Blending with black produces no change This blend mode has no effect on spot colors iI Cut Preflight 5 Appearance 73 Hue Creates a result color with the luminance and saturation of the base color and the hue of the blend color Saturation Creates a result color with the luminance and hue of the base color and the saturation of the blend color Painting with this mode in an area with no 0 saturation gray causes no change Color Creates a result color with the luminance of the base color and the hue and saturation of the blend color This preserves the gray levels in the image and is useful for coloring monochrome images and for tinting color images Luminosity Creates a result color with the hue and saturation of the base color and the luminance of the blend color This creates an inverse effect from the Color mode E Note After you applied a blend mode to an object the next object you create will have this blend mode applied too If you don t want this blend mode for the new object you need to change it after you created the object 5 4 3 Opacity 100 0 Defines how much of the blend result will be used If the opacity is 100 the result will
77. eating editing it See Jest CS Note i cut Preflight will display the 5 last Action Lists that you used in the Run Action List sub menu Convert All RGB to CMYK Remove Empty Pages Add Document Creator Check Ink Coverage 305 All 100 CMYK to 100K Standard je Local e Action Lists E Choose 9 9 2 Managing Action Lists Go to Document Manage Action Lists to create edit or delete Action Lists or Action Lists groups This opens the Manage Action Lists window iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 141 anor Manage Action Lists Action Lists e Le Standard Le Color e Lei Fonts 4 Convert all text to outlines 4 Convert Composite fonts to outlines 4 Convert Embedded fonts to outlines 4 Embed Non Basel4 Fonts gt Le Image E Layers Le Page Leg Preflight Additional Checks L Prepress 57 Repurposing 8 Local Action Lists This window shows all Action Lists and Action List groups organized in a tree structure It contains e Standard Action Lists installed with i cut Preflight These Action Lists are not editable e Local Action Lists you created and that are only accessible to you They are saved as eal files in your Action Lists folder e Action Lists if you have Action Lists created in a previous version of i cut Preflight another application on your system called Global Action Lists you will find them here These Action Lists are saved as eal files in your Action
78. ection which results in all areas that belong to exactly one object Just like Intersect Exclude takes groups into account The resulting objects take the foreground paint and are placed in the layer of the top object 6 4 8 Back minus Front All higher selected objects are subtracted from the lowest one Groups are taken into account see Intersect on page 95 The resulting object takes the background paint and is placed in the layer of the lowest object 96 i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 6 4 9 Front minus Back All lower selected objects are subtracted from the highest one Groups are taken into account see Intersect on page 95 The resulting object takes the foreground paint and is placed in the layer of the highest object I Cut Preflight 7 Text 97 f lext A text Detection i cut Preflight will try to detect text words lines paragraphs and boxes automatically It can detect paragraphs in 3 orientations standard roman vertical or vertical with standard roman alignment See Orientation g Note For PDF files that contain text objects in a random order e g if the file has been flattened the paragraph line word recognition will fail and text editing will be much more difficult 2 Edit Text 7 2 1 Select Text Only the Type Tool allows you to select a piece of text All other tools will always select the entire text block There are several ways to select a piece of text e Drag
79. ector Fill Paint 43 Overprint k hi hh To define these characteristics first select an option from the first drop down menu Fill Paint Stroke Paint Stroke Transparency Path Text or Traps Then refine your selection with the second drop down menu its contents change according to what you selected first Gre Note For certain characteristics you will have to further refine your criteria with additional drop down menus equality inequality symbols click lt to change it to or gt and input fields Res A e 300 0 Once the characteristics are defined click one of the arrow buttons to determine the type of selection you want To select all of the objects who have the defined characteristics click the Select button k To add the objects with the defined characteristics to an existing selection click the Add to p selection button k f To remove the objects with the defined characteristics from an existing selection click the Remove from selection button k To search for objects with the defined characteristics within an existing selection click the Intersect with selection button ko Fill Paint This allows you to select objects that have specific types of Fill Paint The options are Overprint This selects all the objects that are overprinting Registration This selects all the objects defined in Registration color space
80. ed counterclockwise You can see the orientation in the Object window see Object Window Path lext This allows you to select text according to its characteristics All Selects all text Size Selects all text with a font size lower equal or higher than a specified value E S KO KL 46 i Cut Preflight 4 Editing e Font Selects all text in a specific font To choose the font type its name in the field on the right or select it in the drop down menu g Note All fonts partially matching the name you type will be selected Traps This allows you to select all traps 4 2 Copy amp Paste 4 2 1 Cut Deletes the selected objects from the document and copies them to the clipboard Shortcut Command X Mac or Ctrl X Windows 4 2 2 Copy Puts a copy of the selected objects on the clipboard Shortcut Command C Mac or Ctrl C Windows 4 2 3 Paste Pastes all the clipboard objects in the current document The objects are pasted at the same location as in the original file If the ruler is shown the object is pasted at the same position relative to the ruler as when it was copied or cut Objects will be pasted at the top of the current layer Objects can be pasted in the original document as well as in any other document Shortcut Command V Mac or Ctrl V Windows 4 2 4 Delete Deletes the selected objects Shortcut Command Backspace Mac or Ctrl Backspace Windows Gut Preflight
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82. elease Removes the selected groups while keeping all of the objects that were inside the groups If the group had transparency or clipping paths these will be lost Shortcut Shift Command G Mac or Ctrl Shift G Windows 6 4 4 Clipping Mask Make The frontmost selected object will be used to clip all other selected objects They will be put in a new group together with the clipping object Both the clipping object and the other objects still remain fully editable Shortcut Command 7 Mac or Ctrl 7 Windows Release Release the clipping objects of the selected groups All clipping objects will become normal objects again Shortcut Option Command 7 Mac or Ctrl Alt 7 Windows 6 4 5 Unite Unites the selected objects using the foreground paint These objects may come from different layers or groups The union replaces the selected objects and is sent to the layer of the object that was on top i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 95 e 6 4 6 Intersect Intersects the selected objects using the foreground paint This takes groups and text into account meaning that groups will be seen as a whole so the objects in a group will not intersect each other but only intersect other objects or groups The objects may come from different layers or groups The intersection replaces the selected objects and is sent to the layer of the object that was on top 6 4 7 Exclude Performs a unite minus inters
83. embered for all consecutive saves of the same session See Session Information for details 2 5 4 Backup You can choose to make an automatic backup of your original file every time you save it See Make Backup on Save 2 6 Save AS Saves the current document under a new name You will be presented with several options after choosing a location to save M Certified PDF Incremental save Session comment Cancel Save iI Cut Preflight 2 Files 15 e Certified PDF Allows you to include or remove Certified PDF information This option will be enabled by default if the document was already Certified or when Always enable Certified PDF is set in the Preferences see Always enable Certified PDF e Incremental save All changes will be saved incrementally to enable roll back to the previous sessions see ncremental Save This is only available if Certified PDF is enabled e Session comment Comment for the current session See Session Information This is only available if Certified PDF is enabled Save As can be applied using the Save As function in the File menu or by its shortcut Shortcut Shift Command S Mac or Ctrl Shift O Windows 2 Save and Preflight This function allows you to save and preflight the current document with a profile of your choice For more information see Save and Preflight Shortcut Command option S Mac or Alt Ctrl S Windows 2 8 Revert
84. erprint With i cut Preflight you can create a white background useful when printing on transparent or metal material The White Underprint area has the same shape but a different size than the object under which it is printed 1 Select Preparation gt Create White Underprint The Create White Underprint dialog will open Create White Underprint White Using fei All visible objects C The selected objects Offset By 0 00 mm fa d D Create White Underprint On All Pages Current Page _ Page e g 5 8 17 31 o A Cancel Kg 2 Define the Separation to be used for the White Underprint a click the color patch to define the color representation for the separation b enter the name for the separation Default is White 3 Define how the White Underprint should be created e onthe union of all visible objects e onthe union of all selected objects 4 Define the Offset distance and corners for the White Underprint This will offset the White Underprint in the same way as the OffsetCut Path function See Offsetting a cut path 5 If your document contains multiple pages you can also define if you want to create the White Underprint on all pages on the current page or on a specific set or range of pages 6 Click Create White Underprint The White Underprint ink is of type white and it is inserted as the very first ink The underprint object is added in overprint in a separate layer on top
85. es the document without saving you can also use Command D e Cancel Doesn t close the window you can also press Escape e Save Saves the document and closes it you can also press Enter You can have several options when saving a document see Save 2 5 Save You can save a document using the Save function in the File menu or using the Save shortcut Shortcut Command S Mac or Ctrl S Windows This saves all changes to the PDF file It is only enabled when there are unsaved changes in the current document or for new documents 2 5 1 Saving a New Document When saving a new document the behavior will be the same as Save As see Save As ESKO e By default i cut Preflight saves all new documents to the PDF 1 4 version If you want your document to have another PDF version 1 3 1 5 or 1 6 you can flatten it to that PDF version See Flattener 2 5 2 Saving an Existing Document When saving an existing document i cut Preflight preserves the PDF version it already has g Note If you add blend modes to a PDF 1 3 document i cut Preflight will save it as a PDF 1 4 lf you want to keep it as a PDF 1 3 you need to flatten it to that PDF version See Flattener 2 5 3 Saving a Certified PDF Document Your document is Certified if you have selected the Certified PDF option on the first save or when using Save As see Save As When saving a Certified PDF you must enter a session comment This comment will be rem
86. et City PT State Zip code PT Country E mail Phone Fax Message The user s name company street city state zip code country phone fax e mail and message can all be entered here This information is used each time a new session is started in a Certified PDF UE ESKO 178 i Cut Preflight 12 Advanced The User Name is set as the Author when a new PDF file is created 12 1 5 Advanced Make Backup on Save Check this box if you want i cut Preflight to automatically create a backup of your PDF every time you save it i cut Preflight will save the backup file in the same folder as your original PDF and add Backup to its name For example a backup for Summer Berry pdf would be called Summer Berry Backup pdf 12 2 Shuttle The Shuttle functionality in i cut Preflight allows you to submit files to open files from Esko workflows Odystar Nexus and Automation Engine e Odystar is a highly automated PDF based prepress workflow solution e Nexus is a comprehensive high end workflow solution for label and packaging environments e Automation Engine is a modular workflow server that ensures increased efficiency and throughput for print professionals For more information go to hittp www esko com e On the Odystar side you need to run the Hub application and enable Shuttle in the Receive Gateway See the Odystar documentation for detailed information e On the Nexus side yo
87. etween objects inside the group 5 4 9 Opacity amp Mask define Knockout Shape This affects only a combination of objects with an opacity mask inside a group with the Knockout Group option i Cut Preflight 5 Appearance 77 5 5 Appearance Window The Appearance window contains all the parameters defining the appearance of an object the Fill Paint the Stroke Paint and the Transparency Appearance Fill E Stroke 1 00 pt Trans Soft Light 50 0 dk alc aaa o Saa When you select an object it shows the appearance parameters of this object 5 5 1 Defining an Appearance You can define an appearance in the Appearance window in two ways Select an object that has this appearance in your document O Deselect any object that might be selected and use the Fill Paint Stroke Paint and Transparency O windows to define an appearance 78 i Cut Preflight 5 Appearance Note e Double click the Fill square to open the Fill Paint window e double click the Stroke square to open the Stroke Paint window e double click the Trans field to open the Transparency window setting the Appearance to Default Use the Restore Default Appearance button al at the bottom right of the window to set the Fill paint to White the Stroke to a black two point wide stroke and the Transparency to Default Selecting all Objects with a Certain Appearance Once you have defined an appe
88. f different parts of the text have different properties the corresponding fields will be blank 7 3 1 Font The top part of the text properties allows to set the Font Face type size leading in the Text unit as set in the Preferences or Auto kerning horizontal scaling and baseline shift 7 3 2 Paragraph Using the buttons underneath the alignment can be set to Left Right Centered Justify all lines and Justify only full lines When using Justify all lines even the last line of text will be justified The fields underneath define the indents Left indent Right indent First line indent and First line gap space before paragraph The last input field Drop cap number of lines allows to set a capital at the start of the text block over the number of lines defined H ESKO KL 104 i Cut Preflight 7 Text Word and Character Spacing values can be set to be used when justifying text 7 3 3 Hyphenation Mac OS X only You can use automatic hyphenation in text blocks If i cut Preflight detects a hyphen in the text block the hyphenation will automatically be switched on The hyphenation rules are defined in the Mac OS and are language independent If some hyphenation is incorrect or unsatisfactory you can manually edit the hyphenation in certain words by control clicking the word 7 3 4 Language Spell Checker Mac OS Only If Check spelling is enabled in the extended View Options window see View Op
89. f the stroke and the different Dash and Gap values Iir Note You can change the strokes units in the Preferences See Editing 5 4 lransparency i cut Preflight fully supports transparencies This means when opening a PDF file containing transparencies these will remain after opening E S KO KL O i Cut Preflight 5 Appearance OOGO Object Transparency g Normal 100 0 No Mask Clip Isolate Blending Knockout Group Opacity amp Mask define Knockout shape The Transparency window defines the blend mode opacity and mask to be used on the selected objects 5 4 1 Object Group Transparency The Transparency window has a button to switch between group and object transparency Object transparency A the transparency of groups this only shows the transparency of single objects It never shows O Group transparency this shows the transparency all selected top level objects Most of the time these top level objects are groups acer Note When you ungroup the objects the group transparency is lost and the objects regain their original transparencies 5 4 2 Blend Modes A blend mode makes a combination between the base object and a blend object resulting in a blend color The result depends on the base object the blend color and the opacity Gut Preflight 5 Appearance 71 Multiply Screen Overlay Soft Light Hard Light Color Dodge Color Burn Darken Lighten Difference Exc
90. formation window 3 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 19 e the Object window 3 1 1 Tool Bar The tool bar at the top of the document window contains buttons and tools to view and edit your document When you open i cut Preflight for the first time your tool bar contains the following e View buttons e Navigate tools e Select tool e Path tool e Transform tool e Shape tool e Text tool e Guides tool e Nicks tool e Trace Cut Path tool e Layers button e Separations button e Images button e Inspector button 606 candy_front pdf EN Y View Navigate Select Path Transform Shape Text Guides Layers Separations Images Inspector You can customize your tool bar so you always have easy access to the tools and buttons you use the most Customizing the Too Bar 1 Right click your tool bar and select Customize Toolbar This opens a pop up containing all the tools and buttons you can add to the tool bar E S KO KL 20 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing Drag your favorite items into the toolbar Waha Lol Ba Bs E View Navigate Select Path Transform Ws LT He LO Les Shape Text Guides Page Box Measure aa OD Trap Certified Shuttle Layers Separations Si UY E gt Images Inspector Separator Space Flexible Space OF drag the default set into the toolbar Maj j ciaj iWes Ci ay LE gt View Navigate Select Path Transform Shape Text Show Icon a
91. g the document in i cut Preflight using Save and Preflight Errors warnings fixes or information related to user actions generated when doing a specific action for example preflighting with a preflight profile running an action list pasting an object remapping separations a Note This window is also available in the Window menu Window Errors amp Warnings Show Pages Hide Pages Click the D I O button to show or hide the pages column In this column click a particular page to see entries for this page or click All Pages to the see entries for the whole document 3 ESKOS Pages All Pages Page 1 Page 2 Show 34 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing Errors Warnings Show l Preflight with profile B amp W D Description Reported By O Document uses 4 separations shoul Preflight with profile Reported by Preflight with profile BAW EN Severity Error Use the Show filter to show e all errors warnings fixes and information Everything e errors and warnings encountered when opening a page Document e errors warnings and fixes from the embedded preflight report Preflight Report e errors warnings fixes and information generated by an action e g Make 2 Color Job View in Document If the error warning is related to an object you can click this error warning to select the object or double click it to zoom in on that object Re
92. he Zoom Tool allows you to zoom in and out of the current view For more types of zoom see Zooming 4 4 8 Page Box Tool The Page Box Tool is used to modify the Page Boxes see Page Box Tool Double clicking on the Page Box Tool opens the Page Box Transformation window see Page Box Transformation window 4 4 9 Ruler Tool The Ruler tool allows you to place objects accurately in the document by dragging or snapping them to the Ruler Gut Preflight 4 Editing 51 Show Hide Ruler When the Ruler is shown many functions are relative to it To show the Ruler you can use e the Ruler Tool e the View Show Ruler function e the Ruler button in the Ruler Transformation window e the R or Command R Mac or Ctrl R Windows shortcut To hide the Ruler you can use e the View Hide Ruler function e the Ruler button in the Ruler Transformation window e the Command R Mac or Ctrl R Windows shortcut ac Note The Ruler Tool or the R shortcut show the Ruler but cannot hide it Ruler Tool The Ruler Tool allows to move the Ruler Just drag or click the mouse anywhere to move the Ruler to that location Hold Shift to constrain the Ruler movement either vertically or horizontally Snapping To snap the Ruler to the nearest visible page box guide or the ruler you can either e start to drag it then hold Command Mac or Ctrl Windows e hold Command Mac or Ctrl Windows and use an arrow key Gre
93. he current appearance Fill and Stroke paint See e Rectangle e Ellipse e Star e Polygon E Note You can also draw custom shapes Paths with the Pen Tool See Paths 6 1 1 Rectangle Drag the cursor with the Rectangle Tool to make a rectangle Hold Shift while dragging to make a square Double click the Rectangle Tool to open the Object window called Rectangle in this case in which you can change the rectangle s parameters AAA Rectangle Points 4 Corners square 4 Corners You can change the corner type to e Square default e Round e Cut e Antique i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 81 e ei E S KO KL 82 i Cut Preflight 6 Objects Radius The Radius for Round Cut and Antique corners determines the relative size of the corners in a percentage of half of the smallest side 6 1 2 Ellipse Drag the cursor with the Ellipse Tool a to make an ellipse Hold Shift while dragging to make a circle 6 1 3 Star gt dl Drag the cursor with the Star Tool to make a star The starting point will be its center and the end point will be its top To constrain the star to the constrain angle hold the Shift key Double click the Star Tool to open the Object window called Star in this case in which you can change the star s parameters number of points inner radius and phase Points The Points define the number of star tips 5 by
94. his is either the letter A the first letter of the font s subset if A is not included in it or a unicode translation if the font doesn t contain an A e g dingbats Name This column displays the full name of each font used If a font has been embedded by several applications e g in TrueType by one in Type1 by another its name will be displayed multiple times You can click the gray triangle beside the font name to see all paragraphs of text using that font Click a font name to select it in the document If the Type Tool is active this will select the text for editing otherwise it will select the text box Double click to zoom in on it Embedding This column shows the type of embedding used for each font This could be None Subset or Full ER E S KO KL 134 i Cut Preflight 9 Document None means the font is not embedded in the document In this case the text using this font can only be displayed if the font is available on your system Subset means only a subset of the font is embedded If you are allowed to edit the text see below you will only be able to use characters included in the subset Full means the font is fully embedded If the font license allows you to edit the text you will be able to use all the characters of the font License This column shows information about the font s editing permissions Viewing means you can only view the text in
95. hortcut Shift Command I Mac or Ctrl Shift Windows The separations are shown in the order they will be printed You can drag and drop them to change this order Each separation has a preview color a name and a type Preview Color This shows the display color of each separation Name This column show the names of the separations Type The type of a separation can be Standard Opaque Technical or Varnish e Standard inks are the common transparent inks such as CMYK and most Pantones When objects are overprinting the underlying ink will be visible e Opaque inks like gold white silver are not transparent so even when overprinting they will cover underlying colors completely The type of their separations should be Opaque in order to display and proof correctly This will also affect trapping iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 125 ER e Technical inks are separations that are used to color technical lines such as Die lines folding lines etc e Varnish separations allow to define where varnish needs to be added 9 5 2 Modify Separation Change Separation Display Color Double click the color rectangle to open the standard Color Picker Then choose your display color and click OK Change Separation Name Double click a separation s name to change it Change Separation Type To change a separation s type click the double arrows in the Type column You can p
96. ht profile name Rename Group To rename a group 1 right click it in the Manage Preflight Profiles window 2 select Rename 3 type the new name You can also select the group to rename click the Action button and select Rename group name ER E S KO KL 158 i Cut Preflight 9 Document Import Preflight Profile You can import a ppp file to make the preflight profile available in the Manage Preflight Profiles window for managing and editing To do this click the Action H button and select Import Preflight Profile This opens a finder window where you can select the preflight profile to import Import Group You can import a folder containing ppp files as a preflight profile group To do this click the Action button and select Import Group This opens a finder window where you can select the folder to import Ce Note This imports the group inside the group that you selected in the preflight profiles tree structure Export Preflight Profile Group You can export a preflight profile as a ppp file to transfer or distribute it To do this click the Action H button and select Export preflight profile name This opens a finder window where you can define the name and location of the exported opp file You can also export a group as a folder containing ppp files Click the Action 1 button and select Export group na
97. ine at right angle hold Shift and click e To add a straight line segment after a curve click on the last point of the curve then click where you want the end of your straight line to be _ Adding New Curve Segments e To add a new curve segment drag the mouse i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 85 e e To add a new curve segment and to control the curvature at the starting point too for example to get the paths below do the following 1 Click on the last point of the last segment you have drawn then without lifting the mouse drag a handle in the direction you want the curve to go a Note This handle will not be visible in the final path 2 At the end of the handle lift the mouse then position the cursor where you want the end point of your curve to be and click or drag to get a handle at the end a N Removing the Last Added Point Use BACKSPACE or Command Z Mac or Ctrl Z Windows to remove the last point of the path ei E S KO KL 86 Cut Preflight 6 Objects Finishing a Path To close a path click the starting point again use Object Path Join or use the shortcut Command J Mac or Ctrl J Windows To leave a path open press ENTER or switch to another tool 6 2 2 Editing a Path ls To edit a path click the Direct Selection Tool then the path you want to edit Shortcut A ac Note You can Option click Mac or Alt click Windows to change the Direct Selection Tool s selection mode out
98. ion see Librarian If no collection is defined or if it doesn t contain paper sizes no predefined sizes will be available enter the page box s size and position yourself use the Horizontal Vertical Offset and the Width Height fields The Size drop down menu will show Custom 9 4 3 Crop Page to Page Box The Crop Page to function in the Document menu allows to crop all objects to the selected page box Objects falling completely outside the selected page box will be removed while objects which are partially inside the selected page box will get a clipping path 9 4 4 Apply Page Boxes to All Pages The Apply Page Boxes to All Pages function in the Document menu allows to apply the page boxes of the selected page on every page of the document This allows to change the page boxes of a multipage document on all pages at once ER E S KO KL 124 i Cut Preflight 9 Document 9 9 Separations 9 5 1 Document Separations To simply check the separations for the current document you can use the View Separations window in the Window menu see View Separations Window To view and modify the separations for a single page the whole document go to the Separations window Window Separations or click the il button from the Images or Fonts window BO Separations Eolo el A Name Type Cyan Cyan Magenta Magenta Yellow Yellow Black Black BECA PANTONE 225 C Standard i S
99. ion professional who needs to be able to work on PDF files in a very fast and interactive manner With i cut Preflight you can avoid delays in the prepress cycle time consuming turnaround times in sending files back to customers and reprocessing them all over again and costly press downtime Some of the functions that are available in i cut Preflight include highly interactive transformation of objects changing colors and transparencies modifying mapping and adding separations text and paragraph editing replacing and importing pictures changing page boxes etc This User Guide gives a full description of all options functions settings etc in i cut Preflight 1 1 LICENSING When launching i cut Preflight for the first time you will automatically get the licensing dialog You can choose between e running a 30 day trial license e Activate your software using a product key e Connect to a License Server For more information on activating your software locally using a Trial license or a Product Key see the Local License Manager documentation http help esko com products Local 20License 20Manager For more information on using a Network license see the Network License Manager documentation http help esko com products Network 20License 20Manager 1 2 About i cut Preflight The About i cut Preflight window accessible from the i cut Preflight menu contains information about your copy of i cut Preflight 1 3 The Reference
100. ious page e to goto the next page e to goto the last page e Using one of the shortcuts Command Page Up Mac or Ctrl Page Up Windows or Home Top key to go to the first page e Page Up to go to the previous page e Page Down to go to the next page Command Page Down Mac or Ctrl Page Down Windows or End key to go to the last page 3 4 Checking 3 4 1 Densitometer Tool d The Densitometer Tool will show the separation values and the total ink percentage at the mouse location when clicking or dragging The densities shown are the average of a 3 by 3 pixels square Hold Shift while clicking or dragging to get the densities at a single pixel 32 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing Hold Option Mac or Alt Windows while clicking to get the separation names You can also double click the Densitometer Tool to open the View separations window and see the separation names 3 4 2 Measure Tool e When clicking or dragging the Measure Tool it will show the distance of that point to the left and bottom of the trim box or to the ruler origin if the ruler is shown To measure the distance from one point to another click again to select the end point The window will now show the total horizontal and vertical distance as well as the angle between the two points 3 4 3 Object Selection Size You can see the size of the bounding box of a selection in the Object Transformation window It displays the
101. is from the History window 1 Select the session you want to roll back to Click the Action button and choose Save Snapshot of Session 3 Choose the name and location to use and save the snapshot I Cut Preflight 10 Certified PDF 161 Ge Note e By default the date of the session you chose is included in the snapshot file name but you can give it any name you want e The snapshot is a regular Certified PDF equal to the way the file was in the session you chose You can open that file separately in i cut Preflight and edit it if desired 10 1 4 Show Hide Details Click the Action button then Show Details or Hide Details to show hide additional information for most of the actions indicating the objects involved You can click double click each of these objects to highlight it zoom in on it 10 2 Incremental Save The Incremental Save function is offered as part of the Save As and Save and Preflight functions See Save As and Save and Preflight When you enable this all changes will be saved incrementally to enable roll back to the previous sessions This means that you can revert to the way the file was when it was saved in a previous session See Session Rollback to know how to roll back 10 3 Preflighting 10 3 1 Preflight Profiles With i cut Preflight you can preflight your PDF files with preflight profiles A preflight profile is a collection of checks and fixes to c
102. ists it contains from the Action Lists database Edit Action List Rather than creating totally new Action Lists you might find easier to create your own Action Lists based on the predefined Action Lists To do this select the Action List you want to edit in the Manage Action Lists window click the Action button and select Edit Action List name You can also double click the Action List in the Manage Action Lists window to edit it CS Note If the Action List you want to edit is partially locked see Action List Locking you can either enter the password to edit it or choose to only view it A password is needed to edit the action list My Action List The password is not needed for viewing the action list Enter password This opens the Edit Action List dialog iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 149 aac Edit Action List Change RGB Red to CMYK Red 0 Show Library Test Selected Actions Options for Action List Info A Action List Info la Action List Locking Select all Select fill color Change fill color Action List Name Change RGB Red to CMYK Red Author Customer Support Company Enfocus Software Bee colar Action List Description Change stroke color This is the same dialog as when you create a new Action List For more information see New Action List De D Note Use the Show Hide Library button to show or hide the list of available actions Duplicate
103. iting Shortcut Shift Command A Mac or Ctrl Shift A Windows 4 1 4 Invert Selection Invert Selection in the Edit menu will invert the selection of all the objects in the document except for the locked or hidden objects What is selected will be deselected and vice versa Shortcut Option Command A Mac or Ctrl Alt A Windows 4 1 5 Previous Selection Previous Selection in the Edit menu reverts to the previous selection This is most useful after accidentally losing the selection due to an unwanted click Shortcut Option Command Z Mac or Ctrl Alt Z Windows 4 1 6 Select Lower Higher When several objects are superimposed and you are in Area selection mode see the Preferences chapter Editing you can only select the topmost object directly With Select Lower and Select Higher you can select each superimposed object successively ace Note This works within a layer or across different layers Select Lower To select the object below the one you selected make sure you have clicked a point where the two objects intersect with each other and click Edit Select Lower Shortcut Option Command ARROW DOWN Select Higher After using Select Lower you can go back up by using Edit Select Higher Shortcut Option Command ARROW UP 4 1 7 Selector Window The Selector window allows you to select objects based on their characteristics Cut Preflight 4 Editing 43 4 OH Sel
104. l and go to Object Text Make Text Block about gloss for ages but we reckon it s time to bring back ippy It looks polished and sexy d good lippy is long lasting and moisturising Try Max lext Linking You can use the Type Tool to link text blocks text that no longer fits in a text block will overflow into the text block it is linked to To do this click the blue arrow beside the text block and drag it into the text block you want to link the first one to E S KO KL 108 i Cut Preflight 7 Text B Ld Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit Sed scelerisque purus Sed vitae sapien Proin et siberol sit amet velit porta jaculis Aenean vitae ante Integer aliquet lacus id tempus porta ante pede bibendum hunc non laoreet nibn tellus non magna Sed sed purus a ligula tincidunt pretium Nune dapibus rutrum risus Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit Nulla lacus libero imperdiet non lobortis pulvinar euismod et arcu 4 al g Note You cannot create loops link a text block to a second one and then the second one back to the first one To unlink the text blocks drag the arrow into the background 7 6 Text Overview Hold the mouse down on the Type Tool to select the Text Block Tool a With this tool you can have an overview of all text blocks and edit them Shortcut Shift T Click in a text block to select i
105. lects objects with a specific blend mode Cut Preflight 4 Editing 45 E e All selects all objects with a blend mode other than Normal e Non separable selects all objects with a non separable blend mode Hue Saturation Color Luminosity e Normal Multiply Screen Overlay Soft Light Hard Light Color Dodge Color Burn Darken Lighten Difference Exclusion Hue Saturation Color Luminosity selects all objects with the selected blend mode For more information on blend modes see Blend Modes Opacity Selects all objects with an opacity lower equal or higher than a specified value Opacity Mask Selects all objects that have a softmask Stencil Mask Selects all objects that have a Stencil Mask g Note You can use this to get rid of unwanted stencil masks generated by bad PDF exports e g tables exported from Word Select all stencil masks with the Selector window and click Edit Delete or Command Backspace Regional Path This allows you to select paths according to their characteristics All Selects all paths Open Selects all open paths Even Odd Selects all paths filled using the Even Odd fill mode You can see the fill mode in the Object window see Object Window Path Non Zero winding Selects all paths filled using the Non Zero Winding fill mode Mixed Orientation Selects all paths with a mixed orientation e g a compound made from an outline oriented clockwise and one orient
106. line or area When a path is editable it shows control points for its straight lines and control points with handles for its Curves Add Remove To add a control point double click a line curve To remove a control point select it and press BACKSPACE Move To move a control point drag it straight line or drag its handle curve Curvature e To edit a curve s curvature at a control point moveone of the point s handles i Cut Preflight 6 Objects 87 e e To edit the opposite curvature as well to preserve smoothness first click the control point and then drag either handle The opposite handle will move too e To toggle between a sharp line and a smooth curve control point double click it selecting Multiple Control Points You can edit more than one control point drag a rectangle around the control points you want to select You can also click inside an outline to select all of that outline s control points To remove control points from the selection hold Shift and drag a rectangle around the control points to deselect To delete all the selected control points press BACKSPACE To move them drag one of them 6 2 3 Joining Paths The Join function Object Path Join closes a single open path or can join all selected open paths and make one closed path from them Gaps between the open paths will be bridged by straight line segments Shortcut Command J Mac or Ctrl J Windows
107. lors may be converted to the same in gamut color the image will then lose several shades This is the least commonly used rendering intent and it is mostly used for cartoons comics business graphics or to improve weak images Relative Colorimetric The Relative Colorimetric and the Absolute Colorimetric rendering intents treat colors in the same way but differ in their treatment of the white point These rendering intents convert each out of gamut color individually to the closest in gamut color like the Saturation rendering intent However they don t modify in gamut colors which can lead to a visual discrepancy between the original and the converted image Relative Colorimetric maps the white point to the destination paper s white So no ink is used when printing white It is used mostly for limited conversions such as a CMYK to CMYK conversion It generally doesn t give good results when converting images with gradations or blend modes Absolute Colorimetric The Absolute Colorimetric rendering intent converts images the same way as the Relative Colorimetric rendering intent However it maps the white point to the white point of the source profile This means this profile simulates the source white within the image For example if the source profile is designed for a newspaper its white will be slightly grey so the whole image will have a slight grey undertone This rendering inte
108. lusion Hue Saturation Color Luminosity Normal Normal means the blend color will simply replace the base color At 100 Opacity this gives the same result as it would without any transparency At other percentages this will result in a mix of the base and the blend object Multiply Looks at the color information in each channel and multiplies the base color by the blend color The result color is always a darker color Multiplying any color with black produces black Multiplying any color with white leaves the color unchanged This is mostly used for shadows Screen Looks at each channel s color information and multiplies the inverse of the blend and base colors The result color is always a lighter color Screening with black leaves the color unchanged Screening with white produces white The effect is similar to projecting multiple photographic slides on top of each other Overlay Multiplies or screens the colors depending on the base color Patterns or colors overlay the existing pixels while preserving the highlights and shadows of the base color The base color is not replaced but is mixed with the blend color to reflect the lightness or darkness of the original color Soft Light Darkens or lightens the colors depending on the blend color The effect is similar to shining a diffused spotlight on the image 9 E S KO KL 12 i Cut Preflight 5 Appearance If the blend color light source is lighter than
109. me This opens a finder window where you can define the name and location of the exported folder sort Preflight Profiles Groups You can select a preflight profile or a group and drag it up or down in the tree structure i Cut Preflight 10 Certified PDF 159 10 Certified PDF With i cut Preflight you can Certify your PDF files The Certification ensures your PDF files meet high quality standards It consists of e afile History that shows all modifications made to the file and who made them e an Incremental Save capability allowing you to roll back to any previous saved state of the file e PDF Preflighting that uses Preflight Profiles to check PDF files for potential problems and to fix those problems g Note To be Certified your file needs to have at least a file History Incremental Save and Preflighting are optional 10 1 History Go to Window History to open the History window OO History Ch Original document CH Neo 10 Alpha 0 18 Nov 2010 Neo 10 Beta O 11 Mar 2011 i User i System a Application Times Start 11 03 11 11 50 End 11 03 11 11 52 ES Preflight ik Actions w l Active Session 10 1 1 Session Information In a Certified PDF workflow a PDF document can go through various editing sessions done by various users The Session sections show the Certified status OK or not OK E of the document and Certified information for each time the file was saved or Certified e User
110. mode fei Outline cy Area General units millimeters H Text units points ES Stroke units points H Constrain angle 90 00 Step distance 10 00mm Image editor cl DN Working Color Spaces RGB sRGB IEC61966 2 1 noBPC CMYK ISO Coated HH Color Conversion Engine Apple ColorSync ES Use black point compensation I Cut Preflight 12 Advanced 1175 Selection mode You can set the default selection mode to Outline select or Area select You can always toggle the selection mode by using the Option Command Mac or Ctrl Alt Windows shortcut See Select for more informations on Selection General Units Changes the units in the complete program except for text and strokes see Text units You can choose between mm cm m inch point mil pica points didot points Q s Bai s Q and Bai are Japanese units for character pointsize Text units Units for all text related values You can choose between mm cm m inch point mil pica points didot points Q s Bai s Stroke units Units for all stroke related values You can choose between mm cm m inch point mil pica points didot points Q s Bai s Constrain angle This angle is used by several tools When rotating an object the rotation angle will be constrained Shift or will snap Command to a multiple of the constrain angle This allows you for example to rotate objects by exactly 90 step distance Enter
111. mp Text HH Use Small Size 2 Drag your desired tools buttons onto the tool bar a Tip e You can organize your tool bar by adding separators spaces or flexible spaces e To go back to the default tool bar drag the default tool bar set onto the tool bar 3 Choose if you want to show only the icon only the text or both for your tools and buttons By default the tool bar shows both the icon and the text 4 If you want to add lots of tools and buttons or the tool bar or maximize the viewing space for your document select Use Small Size to make the tools and buttons smaller 5 Click Done when you are finished All document windows will now have the new tool bar 3 1 2 Navigation Bar The bottom left corner of the document window indicate the current document page you are viewing and the zoom factor you are viewing it at 216 6 Page let Gut Preflight 3 Viewing 21 You can use this area to change the zoom factor see Zoom Factor or navigate between the document s pages see Page Browsing 3 1 3 Palette Magnetism You can attach the top of a palette to the bottom of another palette When moving a palette all palettes attached to it downwards will be moved along To detach palettes from one another move the bottom palette 3 1 4 Show Hide Palettes To show or hide all of the i cut Preflight palettes go to Window Show palettes when they are hidden or Window
112. n Le Test This brings the document window at the front and runs the Action List on it To save your Action List afterwards go to Window Edit Action List and click the OK button g Note You can run your Action List on any file open in i cut Preflight Run Action List on PAGA Standard pdf fal Current Page Pages 1 to 1 of 1 Click the OK button at the bottom of the window to save your Action List Dee Note You cannot save a new Action List in the Default Action Lists group If you created your Action List in this group i cut Preflight will ask you to save it in the Local Action List group instead New Group 1 Click the New Group OF button to create a new Action List Group You can also click the Action 1 button and select New Group ER E S KO KL 148 i Cut Preflight 9 Document ace Note This creates your new group inside the group that you selected in the Action Lists tree structure 2 Double click the group you just created called Untitled by default and give it a name You can also right click it and select Rename Delete Action List Group To delete an Action List or a group select it inthe Manage Action Lists window and click the Delete button You can also click the Action 1 buttonand select Delete name or just press backspace This deletes the selected Action List or the selected groupand all the Action L
113. n fei All Pages Current Page Page e g 5 8 17 31 2 Select the Cut Path you want to modify in the dropdown list 3 Define the Deviation The smooth function reduces sharp corners and replaces them by circular segments The Deviation defines the radius of these segments 4 If your document contains multiplepages you can also define if you want to smooth the cut path on all pages on the current page or on a specific set or range of pages 5 Click Smooth Cut Path 11 1 5 Adding Nicks to a Cut Path Nicks are small interruptions in a cut path to ensure that during or after cutting the inside parts remain connected In i cut Preflight you can only define the position of the Nicks These positions will be picked up by i cut Layout or i cut Automate where you can also define the size of the Nicks i 2 You can use the Nicks tool to e add a Nick by clicking on any cut path 170 I Cut Preflight e move a Nick by dragging it around the cut path e move a Nick to another cut path by dragging it onto that cut path e remove a Nick by dragging it off the cut path The Nicks will be saved in the PDF file and will be picked up by i cut Layout or i cut Automate 11 2 Add Bleed If the graphic contains no information color outside of the cut path you can add bleed in i cut Preflight 1 Select Preparation gt Add Bleed The Add Bleed dialog will open Add Bleed To All visible objects C
114. n choose Apple ColorSync or Little CMS See Convert Image Color Space for information on how to convert an image s color space Use black point compensation You can use black point compensation to preserve details in the shadows when converting RGB images to CMYK colors Without black point compensation several out of gamut dark RGB colors may be converted to the same color resulting in a loss of detail Black point compensation preserves the relationship between those dark colors in the converted image resulting in more detail in the shadows g Note You can only use black point compensation with the Little CMS conversion engine 12 1 3 Certified PDF OC Certified PDF mo Li Viewing Editing Certified PDF User Info Advanced Always enable Certified PDF All files will contain Certified PDF information when saved 12 iI Cut Preflight 12 Advanced 177 Always enable Certified PDF When this option is on all files will include Certified PDF information when saved You still have the option to exclude the Certified PDF information again when using Save As When opening PDF files that do not contain Certified PDF information you will get a message asking you to preflight the file This file contains no Certified PDF information do you want to preflight it now 12 1 4 User Info Bonn User Info m gt O _ viewing Eia ne PDF User A rbeapeect Name Company Stre
115. n with a cross x indicates that either the profile or the document gives an error status A profile can give an error status if it doesn t match any profile in the Preflight Profile database See Managing Preflight Profiles The document can give an error status if e errors were encountered during the preflight e the file was edited after being Certified it is then no longer Certified The status window contains a Show Report button See Show Report Document i Cut Preflight 10 Certified PDF 165 Preflight Profile Name CMYK 1 Spot v3 0 Author Enfocus Customer Support Date March 11 2011 11 41 30 Status This Preflight Profile is equal to the database Preflight Profile called CMYK 1 Spot v3 0 Document Status CA This document has been preflighted but the preflight report contains errors cr Close a J OK A green icon with a tick v indicates that the file is Certified by a profile matching the Preflight Profile database and contains no errors The status window contains a Show Report button See Show Report Document Preflight Profile Name Generic Office v3 1 Author Enfocus Customer Support Date March 11 2011 11 43 42 Status This Preflight Profile is equal to the database Preflight Profile called Generic Office v3 1 Document Status This document has been preflighted without errors TT Close Ke 10 UE ESKOS I Cut Preflight 1
116. nd rotate objects You can also use the Transformation window to transform the selected objects see Object Transformation Double click the Transform Tool to open this window selecting The Transform Tool can be used to select The cursor will be a regular arrow and will work like the select Tool Moving Dragging To move an object click inside the bounding box and drag The cursor will change to a crossed arrow To constrain the movement either vertically or horizontally hold the Shift key Moving by Step Distance To move an object by a predefined distance set the Step distance in the Preferences see Step distance and use the arrow keys of your keyboard For example if the Step distance is 5mm pressing the right arrow key once will move the object to the right by 5mm Ge Note Hold the Option key Mac or Alt key Windows to move the selected object by 10 times the step distance Cut Preflight 4 Editing 49 Snapping To snap an object to the nearest visible page box guide or the ruler you can either e start to drag it then hold Command Mac or Ctrl Windows e hold Command Mac or Ctrl Windows and use an arrow key g Note If there isn t anything to snap to in the direction of the arrow key you use the object will not move i cut Preflight uses the object s handles for snapping In the example below the selected object snapped to the left to the ruler i cut Preflight placed the object s
117. new window where you can edit it All changes are applied immediately and the result can be seen in the main job window Stencil Mask You can see if an object has a stencil mask in the Transparency window Stencil Mask Wi iI Cut Preflight 5 Appearance 75 Stencil masks e g created by Illustrator you make a colored bitmap are kept as stencil masks and no longer converted to opacity masks You cannot create or edit stencil masks in i cut Preflight g Note After you applied a mask to an object the next object you create will have this mask applied too If you don t want this mask for the new object you need to change it after you created the object 5 4 5 Clip The Clip option allows to clip the masked object using its associated opacity mask Clipping is always on for stencil masks 5 4 6 Invert The Invert option allows to invert the opacity or stencil mask before applying it 5 4 7 Isolate Blending This option is only available for group transparency When an object has a blend assigned to it it will affect all objects underneath E S KO KL 76 i Cut Preflight 5 Appearance Enable this option to apply the blending to objects within the group only and not to other objects underneath 5 4 8 Knockout Group This option is only available for group transparency Enable this option to calculate the opacity and blend between the group s topmost object and the group s background and not b
118. nt Matches Selects all the objects with a Fill Paint that matches the current Fill Paint in the Fill Paint window shown in the square besides Matches Stroke Paint This allows you to select objects that have specific types of Stroke Paint The selection options are exactly the same as the ones for Fill Paint but applied to the Stroke Paint Stroke This allows you to select objects that have specific types of stroke All Selects all objects with a stroke Width selects all objects with a stroke width lower equal or higher than a specified value Cap selects all objects with a stroke cap of the selected type Click on one of the buttons on the Ds 0 side to select the cap type Le Join selects all objects with a stroke join of the selected type Click on one of the buttons on the side to select the join type When miter is selected you can select the objects with a miter limit 8 a TE lower equal or higher than a specified value Ife IP Dashed Selects all objects with a dashed stroke Transparency This allows you to select objects which have specific transparencies All Selects all objects with a transparency other than the default one by default objects have Normal blend mode and 100 opacity Objects Selects only objects and no groups with a transparency other than the default one Groups Selects only groups and no single objects with a transparency other than the default one Blend Mode Se
119. nt is mostly used for proofing on screen or on a proofing device to reproduce what the image s appearance will be on the final paper If accidentally printed on the final paper with this rendering intent the image will look dull and darker 9 6 4 Place Image To place an image you can either e Click the button at the bottom left of the Images window I Cut Preflight 9 Document 131 ER e Use the Place function in the Object menu Object Image Place Then browse to the image file you want to place It gets placed at the bottom left of the Trim Box or at the ruler origin if the ruler is shown TIFF CMYK including CMYK with spot and or JPEG alpha channels PNG RGB including RGB with alpha channels image PDF LAB without spot or alpha channels PSD Multichannel or DeviceN including alpha channels Indexed Grayscale Monochrome Placed images will keep their ICC profile if they have one Gre Note If the image placed contains channels in separations spot colors or CMYK that do not exist in i cut Preflight these separations will be added automatically 9 6 5 Delete Image Click the button at the bottom of the Images window to delete all occurrences of the selected image 9 6 6 Replace Image The Replace button a in the Images window allows you to replace all occurrences of the selected image with an image file of your choice i cut Preflight remembers the link to this file
120. ntal and vertical position of the page e When the ruler is shown the position is defined relative to the ruler s origin e When the ruler is hidden the position is defined relative to the bottom left corner of your document Width Height ba a Use the Width and Height fields to set the width and height of the page box in the units defined in the Preferences see General Units Current The Current box is the page box being shown and edited You can also see this box in the View Page Boxes window it is highlighted Size The Size drop down menu allows you to change the size and position of the currently selected page box Media box Crop box Bleed box Trim box Art box AQ Al Az A3 B4 B5 Executive Legal Letter Tabloid Tabloid Extra Y Custom iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 123 ER delete the current page box Undefined g Note You cannot delete the Media box it is always defined fit the current page box to the selection Fit on Selection fit the current page box to another one of the another document page box Media Box document s page boxes Crop Box in the example above For example you can fit the Art Box on the existing Trim Box fit the current page box to a predefined Librarian the Librarian page box size you want to use page box size AO A1 in the example above g Note The predefined page boxes sizes are taken from Librarian s current collect
121. o 70 Shortcut Command Space Mac or Ctrl Space Windows g Note On Mac OS X Tiger Command space opens Spotlight so you should use Space Command in that order to zoom i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 29 Zoom Factor You can see the current zoom factor in the bottom left part of the document window 216 6 2 Page lof You can choose a predefined zoom factor in the drop down list Zoom to fit Zoom to selection Zoom to media box Zoom to crop box Zoom to bleed box Zoom to trim box Zoom to art box 10 25 50 75 100 150 200 300 Zoom to Fit Zoom to Fit in the View menu will fit the document in the window In page mode this will fit the Trim Box to the window while in outline or preview mode the bounding box of the content is used Shortcut Command 0 zero Mac or Ctrl O zero Windows ZOON The Zoom In function in the View menu zooms in on the center of the window by a factor of 140 Shortcut Command Mac or Ctrl Windows ZOOM Out The Zoom Out function in the View menu zooms out on the center of the window by a factor of 70 Shortcut Command Mac or Ctrl Windows E S KO KL 30 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing Zoom to Selection The Zoom to Selection function in the View menu zooms in on the current selection Shortcut Command shift O Mac or Ctrl Shift O Windows 3 3 2 Panning Zut The Hand Tool allows you to pan the current vie
122. of all the content 12 I Cut Preflight 12 Advanced 1173 12 Advanced 12 1 Preferences The Preferences can be opened from the cut Preflight menu or by its shortcut Shortcut Command comma Mac or Ctrl comma Windows 12 1 1 Viewing ore Viewing a ka D O Viewing Editing Certified PDF User Info Advanced Smoothing M Line art text and images Page box colors Media box 5 Crop box Bleed box Ee Trim box Art box Editing colors Selection Magnetism Viewing colors Highlight smoothing This option enables anti aliasing for all line art text and images It is enabled by default and should only be disabled if there is a performance problem Page box colors Click a color rectangle to change the display color of the corresponding page box 1 2 S KO E 174 i Cut Preflight 12 Advanced Defining or changing Page Boxes is done by the Page Box Tool see Page Box Too or in the Page Box window see View Page Boxes Window Editing colors Click the rectangle to change the selection color using the Color Picker Viewing colors Click the rectangle to change the highlight color using the Color Picker The highlight color will be used when double clicking an entry in the History to highlight the object s See History 12 1 2 Editing Oo Editing ES Certified POF User Info Advanced Viewing ff en Wi Editing Selection
123. om the Action List and define attributes for certain actions e g Fill or Stroke for the Change Color action De Actions Filters d it Note Use the Show Hide Library button to show or hide the list of available actions You can use the leftmost panel to filter what actions you see in the list Click one of the filters to only show the related actions in the second panel You use the following filters e All all available actions e Recent actions you have recently added to an Action List e Favorites actions you have added to your Favorites see Add To Favorites on page 143 e action type Selection related actions Check related actions e action category actions related to specific elements of the file e g Image or general changes to be made e g Document or Metadata i Cut Preflight 9 Document 143 All Add alternate images O Recent Apply transfer function e Favorites Change image compression Change OPI info it Select Check for alternate images da Add Check for images with 16 2 Remove Check if JPEG2000 compr w i Change Check image compression a Check Check image compressio i Gather Info Check image interpolation Check maximum resolution Color Check minimum resolution image Check OPI path A Text Check OFI type Cr Line Art Convert images to indexe Position amp Size Crop images General Gather image information Laa Prepress Gather OF
124. ompressed Warning HH Remove document structure compression Processing ret Document Format Document Compression ar Note Click the Enable check box at the top of the right panel to enable checking for this problem category in the preflight profile Problems to detect define which particular problems you want to detect in this problem category Report as choose to report a problem encountered in the file either as an Error a error you can Sign Off or a Warning i cut Preflight automatically opens the Errors amp Warnings window when it finds such a problem in the file For more information see Errors amp Warnings Fix this problem you can make the preflight profile fix certain problems it detected Click the OK button at the bottom of the window to save your preflight profile New Group Click the New Group Eh button to create a new preflight profile group You can also click the Action H button and select New Group g Note This creates your new group inside the group that you selected in the preflight profiles tree structure 2 Double click the group you just created called Untitled by default and give it a name You can also right click it and select Rename ER ceskog Delete Preflight Profile Group 156 i Cut Preflight 9 Document To delete a preflight profile or a group select it in the Manage Preflight Profiles window and click the
125. on is on showing another page box will always hide the one that was selected previously Deselect the Single button to view multiple page boxes again g Note You can define the colors used for the individual page boxes in the Preferences See Viewing For more information on Page Boxes and how to define them see Page Box Tool E S KO KL 28 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing All Click the All button to display all page boxes If the All button was already selected all page boxes will be hidden single The Single button will hide all page boxes except for one If the Single button is on showing another page box will always hide the one that was selected previously Deselect the Single button to view multiple page boxes again Shortcut Command B to show hide all page boxes EF Note You can define the colors used for the individual page boxes in the Preferences See Viewing For more information on Page Boxes and how to define them see Page Box Tool 3 3 Navigating in a File 3 3 1 Zooming There are several ways to change the zoom factor ZOOM lool To zoom in click your document with the Zoom Tool to zoom in by 140 each time or drag a rectangle to zoom in on a certain part of the document Gre Note With the powerful Zoom Tool in i cut Preflight you can zoom in until you see single pixels e To zoom out hold the Option key when clicking to reduce the zoom factor t
126. orrect your PDF files and make them print ready For more information about preflight profiles please see the Enfocus Knowledge Base http www enfocus com kboverview php You can also create edit duplicate import export or delete preflight profiles 1 0 E S KO 162 i Cut Preflight 10 Certified PDF For more information see Managing Preflight Profiles 10 3 2 Preflighting without Saving Test Preflight To check your document against a Preflight Profile without automatically saving its status or to test a Preflight Profile you made yourself use the Document Preflight function For more information see Preflighting a Document with a Preflight Profile 10 3 3 Save and Preflight To save and preflight your current document go to File Save and Preflight If the file was never saved a file browser will be presented first After that you have several options Incremental save Preflight Profile B amp W 1 Spot v3 0 Session comment a Cancel WT e Incremental save this saves all changes incrementally so you can roll back to the previous sessions Preflight Profile Use the button to choose the Preflight Profile to use for preflighting By default i cut Preflight suggests the first profile in your Preflight Profile database To define a new Preflight Profile see New Preflight Profile i Cut Preflight 10 Certified PDF 1163 g Note If your document was already preflighted with a
127. ort you defined in Configure See the Shuttle manual for more information 6 Click the Add button This adds a connection to your server in the Servers list e To remove the connection to a server select it in the Servers list and click the button e To check or edit a server s settings double click it in the Servers list 12 2 2 Filter on Workflow Type If you connect to several servers or to a server with many canvases or workflows you may want to only display certain canvases workflows when submitting files from i cut Preflight s Shuttle 1 In the Advanced tab of the Preferences dialog enable Filter On Workflow Type 2 E At the bottom of the Workflow Types To Show list click the H button and enter the workflow type you want to show in the Launch window e For Odystar canvases you need to define workflow types in the Receive Process Folders parameters See the Odystar documentation e For Nexus workflows the workflow type is the name of the workflow The workflow name format to use here doesn t depend on what you have set in the Workflow Name Format parameter in the General Preferences It is always hotfolder name workflow name e For Automation Engine workflows the workflow type is the file type that the workflow accepts as input i Cut Preflight 12 Advanced 181 3 a Click the CH button again if you want to add more workflow types to the list To remove a workflow type from the Workflow Types To
128. ound e lf you want holes to be removed from the cut path enable Remove Holes The image underneath shows the result with left and without Remove Holes e Set the Remove Small Contours All small contours with both dimensions smaller than the entered value will be removed e Set the Smooth factor to define how much the resulting path will be smoothed A small smooth value is recommended otherwise the resulting path will contain lots of small corners 11 1 3 Offsetting a cut path 1 Select Preparation gt Cut Path Tools gt Offset Cut Path The Offset Cut Path dialog will open Offset Cut Path El CUT ES Distance 2 00 mm Corners fa d u Offset Cut Path On All Pages Current Page C Page e g 5 8 17 31 Cancel 169 UE ESKOS I Cut Preflight 2 Select the Cut Path you want to modify in the dropdown list 3 Define the Offset Distance A positive distance will change the cut path to the outside a negative distance to the inside 4 Select the Corner shape rounded beveled or mitered 5 If your document contains multiple pages you can also define if you want to modify the cut path on all pages on the current page or on a specific set or range of pages 6 Click Offset Cut Path 11 1 4 Smoothing a Cut Path 1 Select Preparation gt Cut Path Tools gt Smooth Cut Path The Smooth Cut Path dialog will open Smooth Cut Path E CUT ES Deviation 0 00 mm Smooth Cut Path O
129. paque Inks Strokes Outline text ERR Clips Check spelling Overprints El Traps Transparencies Breakouts Below 2 0 DAD Ink Coverage Above 250 0 On Windows i cut Preflight shows the extended version of the View Options window On Mac OS X you can click the green button or use the shortcut to hide show the bottom and middle parts of the window Shortcut Shift Command Y Mac or Ctrl Shift Y Windows i cut Preflight will remember this viewing preference next time you start it Preview There are several preview modes available in i cut Preflight Outline Preview and Page mode a e Outline shows only the outlines of all paths on a white background filling the screen This is the default preview mode when you install i cut Preflight e Preview shows the regular version of the file filled with separations on a white background filling the screen e Page shows the filled version of the file cut to the size of the page Trim Box This preview mode doesn t show cut bleed and registration marks 3 24 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing To choose one of these View Modes you can either Click one of the View buttons Ey in the tool bar e Goto View Switch View Mode F Note This switches between Outline and either Preview or Page depending on which one was most recently used e Use the shortcut Shortcut Command Y Mac or Ctrl Y Windows Color Oyo The
130. ported by When you click an error warning or fix you can see what generated it at the bottom of the window Reported by Preflight with profile BAW i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 35 g Note For Preflight errors warnings and fixes you can see the name of the preflight profile used for the preflight in e the Errors amp Warnings window the Preflight Report and the Certified Status of your document if you used Save and Preflight if your file was preflighted in i cut Preflight e the Preflight Report and the Certified Status of your document if your file was preflighted in another application e g PitStop Pro For more information on the Certified Status see Certified Status Show Report Document The Show Report Document button E at the bottom right of the Errors amp Warnings window opens the embedded Preflight Report as a separate PDF file It shows the errors and warnings general file information font information and image information You can print and save it as any normal PDF file Severity When you click an error warning or fix you can see its severity at the bottom of the window OO Errors Warnings Al Description Reported By mom Document uses 4 separations shoul Preflight with profile dh hb RGB color is used Preflight with profile bk Resolution of color or grayscale ima Preflight with profile e b Objects with transparency settings h Preflight with profile Ch
131. r Alt Windows and double click where you want to create it click the button in the Guides window and enter the guide s position from the media box or the ruler if it is shown for example 10mm positions the guide 10 mm on the right of the ruler s vertical axis To add a guide on a page box a selection or the ruler click the 1 button in the Guides window and select Add guides on media crop bleed trim art box click the 1 button in the Guides window and select Add guides on selection click the button in the Guides window and select Add guides on ruler Selecting Guides To select a single guide e click it with the Guide Tool e select it in the Guides window To select multiple guides e hold Shift and click each guide to select with the Guide Tool E S KO KL 94 i Cut Preflight 4 Editing e drag arectangle over the guides to select with the Guide Tool e hold Shift or Command and select the guides in the Guides window Moving Guides To move a guide select it and e drag it with the mouse e use the arrow keys to move it by the step distance See Step distance e hold Option and use the arrow keys to move it by ten times the step distance e hold Command Mac or Ctrl Windows to snap it to the nearest visible object page box other guide or ruler Rotating Guides To rotate a guide from horizontal to vertical and vice versa hold Option Mac or A
132. ransformation window see Page Box Transformation window Resize Drag one of the page box s handles to resize it Hold Shift to constrain the scaling to be equal in both directions Hold Command Mac or Ctrl Windows to snap to the selection the nearest visible page box guide or the ruler You can also edit the size of the selected page box in the Transformation window see Page Box Transformation window 9 4 2 Page Box Transformation window Double click the Page Box Tool to open the Page Box Transformation window Be Page Box Transformation SCH x 16 15 mm iy 18 15 mm e br 710 00 mm 297 00 min l Size Ad Di Point of Origin for the Transformation e lf the ruler is shown the origin of the ruler is used as origin for the transformation You can show hide the ruler on or off with the ruler button af see also Exclude e If the ruler is hidden the origin of the transformation is a point from the bounding box of the selection You can select this point with the Reference Point button 2 For example if you select the bottom left Reference Point the bottom left corner of the bounding box is used as origin of the transformation It will remain in place when scaling the selection ER E S KO KL 122 i Cut Preflight 9 Document Horizontal Vertical Offset l Use the X Offset and Y Offset y box fields to set the horizo
133. ristics of the pattern e g its separations values by double clicking on the Fill Square that has a preview of the pattern This opens the pattern in a new window where you can edit it The pattern in the original window is updated automatically Colored If the Colored checkbox is on the pattern will be filled using the colors of the original objects If Colored is off you will be able to enter a flat color definition for the Pattern 5 1 6 Overprint When you activate this option your paint is in overprint for every separation that isn t empty zero or no image channel Overprint applies to all paint types E S KO KL 64 i Cut Preflight 5 Appearance If you want to apply overprint for some separations activate overprint for your paint and fill K O or just K Knock Out for the separations that you don t want in overprint The K O option is only available if Overprint is on 5 1 Registration If the Registration checkbox is on all separations will get the same value Changing the value for one separation will apply the same value in all separations This uses the Registration Color Space to define registration marks 5 2 Paint Iranstormaton 5 2 1 Paint Tool The Paint Tool is similar to the Transform Tool except that it works on paints instead of objects It allows you to make a selection just like the Selection and Transform Tool Shortcut Shift E To edit either the Fill or Stroke paint cli
134. rocess a separation differently exclude it from printing for example by setting its type to Technical or Varnish See Type for more information 9 5 3 Add Separation Click the button to add a separation In the pop up window that appears you can enter a separation name and click OK Add separation Separation 1 Cancel EO 9 5 4 Delete Separation Click the button to delete the selected separation Objects defined only in this separation will not be deleted they will become white ER E S KO KL 126 1 Cut Preflight 9 Document You can retrieve a separation you just deleted with Undo Command Z Mac or Ctrl Z Windows 9 5 5 Remap Separation Click the remap button It to remap the selected separation In the pop up window that appears you can either remap the selected separation to another separation or remap it to CMYK Remap separation PANTONE Reflex Blue CV to Separation Cyan L i e C CMYK To remap it to a single separation choose a separation in the drop down menu or click the button to choose a separation in the Inks window To remap it to CMYK just click the CMYK radio button The conversion will be done as soon as you click the OK button Gre Note When remapping separations transparencies and overprints can change or be lost For example if a spot color object is set to overprint to CMYK this overprint is lost when remapping the spot color
135. s Screen Color Process Color Spot Color E Multichannel ICC Color Color Remap Spot Color Remap Rendering Parameters Transparency Font Type Font Name Font Style Font Embedding Text Line Art Image Position Image Resolution Image Compression OPI Layers Annotations Metadata PDF X DA IN Calor Cancel Apply ok N In this dialog you add information to your profile and define what problem categories it needs to check and fix General Enter your profile s name and add optional information like the Author the Company and a Description Locking Choose if you want your profile to be unlocked partially lockedor locked When you choose Partially locked you can decide what changes toallow without a password ER E S KO KL 154 i Cut Preflight 9 Document When you choose either Partially locked or Locked you havet o enter a password Users with this password will be able to make unrestricted changes to the profile Locking Not locked fa Partially locked Allow changing Disable all fixes Allow changing Disable sign off _ Allow changing other processing settings C Locked Password Confirm Apply il Processing Processing Properties Disable all fixes ral Log fixes C Disable sign off Pages to show in the preflight report Fal Fonts Y Color Y Page boxes ral Images Til OPI ral Output intent Gei Use the same settings for all objects
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137. s exactly the same way ac Note If the exported image has a profile attached to it it will be kept in the exported image file 9 6 9 Images across the Document By default the information displayed is relative to the current page To view information for another page of the document click the Show Pages button 0 O l Click the desired page to display its images or double click the page to display it in the main window To view the images for all pages of the document click All Pages When All Pages is selected you can process all occurrences of an image in the whole document at once e g edit replace attach detach an ICC profile etc iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 133 9 Fonts 9 7 1 Document Fonts To view and modify the fonts information for a single page the whole document go to the Fonts window Window Fonts or click the LAJ button from the Separations or Images window 0 Fonts de Name Embedding License Type l P TimesNewRomanPs BoldMT Subset gt System Typel A b TimesNewRomanPSMT Subset System Typel A Thonburi None System TrueType R E TimesNewRomanPs ItalicMT Subset gt System Typel N P FagoCoExbTf Roman Subset gt Unknown Typel A P FagoNoBold Roman Subset 7 Unknown Typel J P FagoNoBold Caps Subset gt Unknown Typel P Courier Subset System Typel Apta l Preview For each font this column displays one of the font s glyph T
138. select this point with the Reference Point button For example if you select the bottom left Reference Point the bottom left corner of the bounding box is used as origin of the transformation It will remain in place when scaling the selection Horizontal Vertical Offset E Use the X Offset and Y Offset F selection fields to set the horizontal and vertical position of the e When the ruler is shown the position is defined relative to the ruler s origin e When the ruler is hidden the position is defined relative to the bottom left corner of your document Width Height H Use the Width and Height fields to set the width and height of the selection in the units defined in the Preferences see General Units Use the Scale X and Scale Y E fields to scale the width and height of the selection to a percentage of the original width height g Note You can flip mirror your selection by adding a minus sign in the Scale X or Scale Y field Use the Scale X field to mirror your selection horizontally and the Scale Y field to mirror it vertically E S KO KL 68 Cut Preflight 5 Appearance Rotation Use the Rotation field to rotate your selection counter clockwise To rotate it clockwise use the minus sign e g to rotate it clockwise by 90 degrees type 90 Shearing Use the Shear field to shear the selection by a certain angle In the example below shearing the selection on the left by 25
139. sert differences NA b Differences in any separation Insert differences pp Reported by Insert differences Severity Info the ultimate refreshing amp rehydrating sportsdrink Aydraqua Gut Preflight 4 Editing 41 4 Editing 4 1 Select 4 1 1 Selection Tool At any time you can temporarily switch to the Selection Tool by holding the Command key Mac or Ctrl Windows e In Outline selection mode click near the outline of an object to select it e In Area mode selection mode click inside an object to select it this selects the topmost filled object at that location g Note You can set the selection mode in the Editing Preferences see Editing but you can always temporarily switch to the other mode by holding the Option key Mac or Alt key Windows e Drag to select all the objects that fall entirely inside the drag rectangle e Hold Shift to toggle the selection when clicking or dragging Selected objects will be deselected and vice versa 4 1 2 Select All Select All in the Edit menu selects all the objects in the document except for the locked or hidden objects When the Type Tool is active it selects all the text in the active text block Shortcut Command A Mac or Ctrl A Windows 4 1 3 Deselect All Deselect All in the Edit menu deselects all the objects in the document except for the locked or hidden objects E S KO KL 42 i Cut Preflight 4 Ed
140. t You can then move it resize it or link it to another text block Lorem ipsum dolor sit placulis Aenean vitae ante amet consectetuer Integer aliquet lacus id adipiscing elit Sed tempus porta ante pede scelerisque purus Sed bibendum nunc non vitae sapien Proin et L laoreet nibh libero sit amet velit porta tellus non magn adipiscing elit Nulla lacus libero imperdiet non lobortis pulvinar euismod et arcu 5 F purus a ligula tincidunt pretium Nunc dapibus rutrum risus Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer Ka i Cut Preflight 7 Text 109 L L Font Issues The font s embedding and license characteristics may cause viewing or editing issues See also Embedding and License 7 7 1 Viewing Issues lf a font is not embedded in the PDF you re trying to view or is only embedded as a subset this may cause viewing problems Missing Glyoh Symbols If the font is not embedded and you don t have a system font of the same name the text in that font will be shown as missing glyph symbols LI Text Reflow If the font is not embedded or embedded as a subset and you do have a system font of the same name but with slightly different characteristics the text will be displayed However its appearance may be altered and it may have to be reflowed inside the text box 7 7 2 Editing Issues If you can view the font but it doesn t carry sufficient editing permissions see License you
141. t s Shuttle see Shuttle In the Errors and Warnings window select Insert Differences to view only the differences entries i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 39 the ultimate refreshing amp Show Insert differences L i i Reported By Separation PANTONE 1235 C is miss Insert differences Ch b Differences in separation PANTONE Insert differences Ch b Differences in any separation Insert differences Reported by Insert differences E EF Note Differences are grouped by separation in the Errors and Warnings window Click a difference entry in the window to highlight the difference in the file F Note You can also use the Shuttle Standalone application to open the mismatched file in your workflow and see the differences in i cut Preflight To do this go to Shuttle s Preferences and set your i cut Preflight application to open the file types of the mismatched file and of the compare report For more information see the Shuttle manual To see the mismatched file and the original file side byside Open the original file in i cut Preflight too Go to View Tile Horizontally or View Tile Vertically AO i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing hydraqua_orange2 pdf the ultimate refreshing amp rehydrating sportsdrink Hyudraqua Errors Warnings Show Insert differences D Reported By ON Separation PANTONE 1235 C is miss Insert differences O gt Differences in separation PANTONE In
142. the distance you want to use when using the Transform Tool with the arrow keys The default step distance is 10mm For more information see Moving by Step Distance Image editor The Image editor allows to define what application to open when images need to be edited for example when double clicking the preview in the Fill Paint window see Fill Paint Stroke Paint If no application is set the default application for the specific file type will be opened the same application that would be opened by double clicking the image in the Finder When clicking the button a browse window will open allowing to select an application Clicking the cross button will remove the application selected previously UE ESKO 176 i Cut Preflight 12 Advanced Working Color Spaces With those two drop down menus you can define the default RGB and CMYK working color spaces in i cut Preflight They are used to display respectively RGB and CMYK images with a printed CMYK rendering on screen These working color spaces are only activated if an image has no ICC profile and the document has no Output Intent If a profile is attached to an image or the document this profile will be used as working color space For information on how to attach a profile to an image see Attach Detach ICC Profile Color Conversion Engine Choose the color management engine that i cut Preflight will use to convert images color spaces You ca
143. the mouse to select a consecutive piece of text e Click in the text to position the cursor then hold Shift and click somewhere else e Double click to select an entire word e Triple click to select a paragraph e Quadruple click to select the entire block also Command A Mac or Ctrl A Windows Type Tool Shortcut T 7 2 2 Edit Text Just type to edit text You can also copy and paste text between i cut Preflight and any other application ESKO scum In certain cases text editing may be restricted or you may not be able to edit the text at all due to font issues see Editing Issues 7 2 3 Search and Replace Text Go to Edit Find to perform search and replace on your document s text You have several options Find oF Find Next HG Find Previous HG Find All XG Replace All XL Replace and Find SEL Use Selection for Find E Use Selection for Replace HE FINA Use the Find function to find a particular piece of text in all text blocks of the current page g Note The Find function takes linked text blocks into account If a word is split across two linked text blocks it will still be found as one word Going to Edit Find or using the shortcut opens the Find bar at the top of the document window This contains most of the functions of the Edit Find submenu as well as some options to refine the search aoe Apple_Cupcakes pdf O eka a Aa E O BN Li loo 3 View Navigate Select Path Transform Shape
144. tions Window i cut Preflight will automatically detect the text language and check the spelling of the words You can see and change the language in the Text window but you can only set change it for a complete paragraph The languages and text spelling dictionaries are provided with your Mac OSX operating system When editing text control click any word to get a list of spelling suggestions Choose a suggestion in the list to change the selected word 7 3 5 Orientation i cut Preflight can detect and edit paragraphs that have one of those three orientations e standard roman Text e vertical bei e vertical with standard roman alignment x 0 4 i Cut Preflight 7 Text 105 EA You can use vertical text for numbers in a Japanese or Chinese text see picture on the left below and vertical text with standard roman alignment for Japanese or Chinese characters see picture on the right below E Hy Bo 9 6 O iy K EHO96 Ll kamen A lext Boxes Use the Type Tool to create or transform a Text Box 7 4 1 Create Text Box To create a Text Box drag a rectangle with the Text Tool 7 4 2 Transform Text Box To move a Text Box place the cursor over any of its sides it becomes a crossed arrow and drag it Hold Command Mac or Ctrl Windows while dragging to make the Text Box snap to the nearest visible page box guide or the ruler To resize a Text Box drag one of its handles when
145. to edit an image in the default editing application e g Photoshop defined in the Preferences see Editing When saving the modified image in the editing application the image in the i cut Preflight file will be updated immediately g Note This will not alter the original image but save a copy of the edited image in your PDF file These changes can still be undone in i cut Preflight using the regular Undo function You can also edit an image in the application defined in the Preferences from the Images window See Edit Image Placing an image To place an external image in your document use the Object Image Place function For more information see Place Image Exporting an image To export an image from your document into a file use the Object Image Export function For more information see Export Image 5 1 5 Pattern TO Make a Pattern To make a pattern select the element s you want to use to make the pattern then go to Object Pattern Make Cut Preflight 5 Appearance 63 This encloses the selected objects in a box The width and height of that box define the pattern step Patterns in the Fill Paint Window In the Fill Paint window you can set the Vertical and Horizontal step for a pattern already defined Fill Paint A 24 22 mm Cyan 0 0 Magenta on EN Yellow 100 0 Black on Registration Overprint You can also edit other characte
146. tstseestssresrateees 162 emy o o A 162 VQ SA Gerd Stat dat 163 Preparation TOM IC UU st dis 166 11 11 Adding or changing a Cut GR E 166 TEI Greann a Gut Pala o 166 p Pea kee E NEE 167 teko Oneto a Cut EE 169 lh Dag Ee ele top Ugen EE 170 TAS AGGING NICKS TO a Cut Pa Distintas 170 a Date fl ej tirada adn 171 vii Me skoe came Ss Orale mA alt BR ee SN EE 172 RE NAN EE 173 121 hte SONG E 173 Een WN nn e E O E A 173 ps ele Le ME 174 LE AE o E KE 176 1214 USO IO EE 177 Ne Ee eo DEE 178 A O add 178 12 2 1 Connecting i cut Preflight s Shuttle to Workflow Gernvers 178 12 2 2 Filter on Workflow Ivpe rr ri ron arroces 180 12 2 3 Submitting Files to a WOrkflOW 0 ccc cceescceeecscscsssscsssssesetssssessscssesssessssesestesesseeeseneees 181 12 2 4 Shuttle VWmmdow ccc ccccecscstsssececscsseessscsssesestssesessscsresisssssssessesscssesiesetssssesssssvesesesssseseeseaness 183 vill Cut Preflight 1 Introduction 9 KK 1 Introduction i cut Preflight is a complete native PDF 1 4 1 5 1 6 and 1 7 viewer and editor It is aimed at fast and interactive PDF editing and correction in production environments Extremely user friendly and intuitive i cut Preflight offers great tools for extensive PDF native editing fine tuned for the prepress production department and with full support for Certified PDF i cut Preflight is not meant to replace Adobe Acrobat but rather provides sophisticated tools for the prepress product
147. tter 1 al Click the Add Group button 2 Select Action Lists in the left panel and drag them into the group Iir Note Make sure you drag the actions inside the group and not after it they must be indented Select all Center page content Group Actions Check RGB col Convert color t Add page box marks 3 If needed change the name of the group in the Options panel at right acer Tip You can use the triangle beside the group to show hide the group s actions iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 145 Action List Information Click Action List Info and use the panel on the right to give a name an author a company name and a description to your Action List Selected Actions Options for Action List Info J Action List Info Ee eee Ss o lige Leck tion List Name Convert NChannel Color Space to DeviceN Select all Author Customer Support Make DeviceN with Company Enfocus Software Action List Description NChannel is an extension of the DeviceN color space a multi component device dependent color space NChannel is supported from PDF 1 6 Acrobat 7 x onwards which implies that colors can print or display incorrectly if the PDF document is opened in earlier versions of Adobe Acrobat 1 his Action List will convert NChannel to DeviceN so the object looks E H ill be erimtard rahi s i ime net corres rima D I Action List Locking
148. u need to run the NexusSOAPServer See the Nexus documentation for detailed information e On the Automation Engine side you need to setup the Shuttle connection in the Configure tool See the Automation Engine documentation for detailed information 12 2 1 Connecting i cut Preflight s Shuttle to Workflow Servers You can connect i cut Preflight s Shuttle to several EskoArtwork workflow servers To do this 1 Go to the Advanced tab of the i cut Preflight Preferences window 2 Click the button at the bottom of the Servers list 12 I Cut Preflight 12 Advanced 179 Shuttle Servers Server Status Message This opens the following pop up User Name B Password Browse Method Manual ES Bonjour CSSWMACO2 Server Address 10 31 135 134 Server Port 5182 Cancel 3 Enter your User Name and Password your system user name is filled in by default e When connecting to an Automation Engine server enter the User Name and Password you use to login to the Pilot the password can be blank if your server is configured to accept this You will have the same access rights for example the right to set processing priorities or not in Shuttle as you have in the Pilot e When connecting to a Nexus server enter the User Name and Password you use to login to the NexusManager if your Nexus server has User Management enabled You will be able to access the same workflows as from NexusManager F Note
149. unt when printing to PDF everything else is ignored 2 10 2 Printing to a Device Printer Driver When printing to a device that doesn t support PDF e g a PostScript printer driver i cut Preflight uses the Mac OSX Print engine to print g Note On operating systems older than Mac OSX Tiger the Mac OSX Print engine flattens overprints This can result in lineart or text being converted into images and cause a loss in sharpness In this case you should use the i cut Preflight flattener see Flattener to flatten your file before printing and ensure a good print result On Mac OSX Tiger and Leopard overprints are printed correctly E S KO KL 18 i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 3 Viewing 3 1 The i cut Preflight Workspace J Ca e Errors Warnings PANTONE 225 C Standard Reported by Open Document a stom Prei SR ei Descripti mi ES 0 0 tent representation PANTO O Registratio O Overpri Width 2 00pt Cap amp 5 Severity TS el gt Unlayered art When you first launch i cut Preflight its default workspace consists of On the left e the document window containing the open document s and the tool bar On the right e the Separations window e the Errors amp Warnings window e the Layers window e the Selector window e the Fill Paint window e the Stroke window e the Object Transparency window e the Object Trans
150. urrent Fill and Stroke Paint characteristics by clicking the double sided arrow above the squares For example if the selected object has a cyan and white shading as Fill Paint and a flat black Stroke clicking on the double sided arrow will make it have a flat black Fill Paint and a cyan and white shading as Stroke Paint The Chain icon El allows you to link the paint to the object when you resize or move the object its paint will be resized or moved with it It is activated by default If you deactivate it you can move resize the object but the paint will remain at the same position the same size 60 Cut Preflight 5 Appearance Note When you create a new object it has automatically the same fill and stroke paint as the last object you created To create an object with a different fill stroke paint create the object first then change the fill stroke paint 5 1 1 No Paint The object is not filled nor stroked 5 1 2 Flat The normal plain color definition This can be CMYK as well as spot colors You can fill in any mixture of CMYK and spot colors 5 1 3 Shading With Shading EI the Fill Paint window shows two columns of screen percentages allowing to define the start and end color of the gradation The midpoint can be set in percentage 00 Fill Paint 4 iad E axial A Midpoint 50 0 Location 0 0 50 0 evan 0 0 0 0 Magenta 0 0 0 0 Yellow 0 0 0 0 black 0 0
151. ut path based on the background color of images It works best on images with a solid background 167 INN ESKO Cut Preflight 1 Select the Trace Cut Path tool The Trace Path settings will pop up at the bottom of the screen and the cursor will change to a Cross Cut Path Remove Small Contours Tolerance Ki Remove holes Smooth Note If the current page of the active document doesn t contain any images you will get an error message 2 Click the background color of the image A marker will indicate where you clicked and a cut path is created If there is a cut path with the same name it will be overwritten hd CUTPATH Remove Small Contours 300mm Tolerance CJ Remove holes Smooth Note If you clicked the background color but no cut path can be found for the combination of the settings and the background color you clicked a warning will be shown Tracing the image gave no result Check the tracing parameters 3 As long as the Trace Cut Path tool is active and a cut path is selected a gray overlay will show the cut path and you can modify the Cut Path e Click a different location to recreate the cut path e Define the name for the Cut Path 168 I Cut Preflight e Click the color patch to select a different color for the representation of the cut path e Define the Tolerance this indicates how much a pixel value can deviate from the chosen background color while still be included as backgr
152. w You can also use the scroll bars in the document window to pan the current view Shortcut Space g Note If there is another tool selected you can still pan by holding SPACE and dragging your mouse 3 3 3 Navigation Window The Navigation window is used to define the preview of the file A small preview is shown on the left with a red rectangle marking the previewed area 4 A Navigation To modify this area drag the rectangle create a new one with the cursor or use the settings on the right Use the sliding bar or the and buttons to zoom in or out of the document The value at the top shows the zoom factor which can be entered manually The page button 4 fits the file preview to the window like the View Zoom to Fit function The arrow button gt fits the preview size to the selection like the View Zoom to Selection function i Cut Preflight 3 Viewing 31 The 1 1 button displays the file preview with a 100 zoom 3 3 4 Page Browsing lf your PDF file has several pages you can navigate through them by e Using the Go to function in the View menu First Page 9 SE Previous Page Next Page Last page SE e Typing the page number or page label you want to go to in the page browser at the bottom of the window click in e14 hen type the number Eet 3 Using the arrows of the page browser _ FH at the bottom of the window e Id to go to the first page e 4 to go to the prev
153. w font information for another page of the document click the Show Pages button SE Click the desired page to display its fonts or double click the page to display it in the main window To view information for all pages of the document click All Pages If the same font is used by several pages of the document it will appear several times in this view When All Pages is selected you can change a font s embedding delete or replace it in all pages at once 9 8 Hattener Go to Document Flatten to use the i cut Preflight flattener The flattener allows you to remove some features from your document blend modes overprints DeviceN color spaces so you can save it in an earlier PDF version e g PDF 1 3 You can also flatten to a newer PDF version e g after adding features not supported in the file s current PDF version i Cut Preflight 9 Document 137 ER PDF Version POI A Y Flatten non separable blend modes Split DeviceN color spaces Resolve overprints Convert PS blends Flattening Resolution 300 0dpi Completely resample images Cancel Flatten 9 8 1 PDF Version You can choose to flatten your document to e PDF 1 3 this PDF version doesn t support blend modes or layers e PDF 1 4 this PDF version supports blend modes e PDF 1 5 this PDF version supports blend modes and layers e PDF 1 6 this PDF version supports blend modes layers and JPEG 2000 compression
154. with i cut Preflight These profiles are not editable e Local preflight profiles you created and that are only accessible to you They are saved as ppp files in your User Library Preferences Enfocus Prefs Folder PDF Profiles folder e PDF Profiles if you have preflight profiles PDF profiles on your system created in a previous version of i cut Preflight another application called Global Preflight Profiles or Global PDF Profiles you will find them here These profiles are saved as ppp files in your System Library Preferences Enfocus Prefs Folder PDF Profiles folder iI Cut Preflight 9 Document 153 g Note If you have legacy Local or Global preflight profiles on your system you will find them in a From Old Database group ac Note i cut Preflight is compatible with the latest PitStop Pro Preflight Profiles New Preflight Profile e Click the New button to create a new preflight profile You can also click the Action pea button and select New Preflight Profile This opens the Enfocus Preflight Profile Editor dialog AOC Enfocus Preflight Profile Editor Untitled Problem Categories General General Locking Preflight Profile Properties Processing Name Untitled Document Format Document Compress Author Document Info c e ompany Security Page Box Layout Description Page Size Page Info Page Setting
155. xt matching what you entered in the Find field All the Find options you set in the Find dialog are applied Shortcut Shift Command G ESKO KL 100 i Cut Preflight 7 Text Find All Use this to find all the pieces of text matching what you entered in the Find field All the Find options you set in the Find dialog are applied Shortcut Option Command G Replace All Use this to replace all of the matching pieces of text found Shortcut Option Shift Command L Replace and Find Use this to replace the matching piece of text found and find the next match All the Find options you set in the Find dialog are applied Shortcut Command L Use Selection for Find Use this to copy your selection into the Find field of the Find dialog g Note This doesn t use the paste board so items you have previously copied can still be pasted Shortcut Command E Use Selection for Replace Use this to copy your selection into the Replace field of the Find dialog g Note This doesn t use the paste board so items you have previously copied can still be pasted Shortcut Shift Command E Example 1 You want to replace apple by orange and apples by oranges in your document 1 Go to Edit Find Find or use Command F and type apple in the Find field of the Find dialog Note You can also select the word apple in your document and go to Edit Find Use Selection for Find or Command E
156. y RGB or CMYK image to your chosen profile within the CMYK color space and any grayscale image to a profile within the grayscale color space The image is converted to a specific profile Output Intent within the destination color space with your chosen rendering intent To convert an image s color space click its current color spacein the Color column and select Convert Color Profile a In the dialog that pops up choose the profile to convert the image to in the to profile drop down menu Convert image from profile Generic RGB Profile HH to profile ISO Coated KH using Relative Colorimetric rendering intent Cancel Then select a rendering intent from the bottom drop down menu to specify how the image should be converted before clicking OK See Perceptual Saturation Relative Colorimetric and Absolute Colorimetric for information about rendering intents ER E S KO KL 130 i Cut Preflight 9 Document Perceptual This rendering intent compresses the image gamut into the destination gamut It modifies all the colors but relatively to each other so it keeps an overall harmony This is one of the most commonly used rendering intents and is mostly used for converting from RGB to CMYK color space Saturation This rendering intent saturates the in gamut colors and converts each out of gamut color individually to the closest in gamut color This means that close out of gamut co
157. yk Lossless Di E Embedded gt 961 4 dpi 674x852 px Cmyk Lossless eh b Embedded 525 5 dpi 1402 x 1401 px Cmyk Lossless Ki E Embedded gt 906 0 dpi 482 x 479 px Cmyk Lossless 2 b Embedded gt 252 1 dpi 674x852 px Cmyk Lossless K P Embedded 660 1 dpi 422x451 px Cmyk Lossless 3 bE Embedded gt 299 9 dpi 300 x 361 px Cmyk Lossless P Embedded gt 752 1 dpi 6 4 x 852 px Cmyk Lossless D P Embedded 660 0 dpi 422x451 px Cmyk Lossless A E Embedded 821 8 dpi 422x451 px Cmyk Lossless DH b Embedded gt 936 6 dpi 674 x 852 px Cmyk Lossless Gi P Embedded 525 6 dpi 1402 x 1401 px Cmyk Lossless ER E S KO KL 128 Cut Preflight 9 Document You can also click the gray triangle to show more information about the image different occurrences of the image Resolution This shows the resolution of the images within the document and not the original resolution of the images If the file contains the same image several times but with different resolutions the lowest resolution is shown after a gt sign Clicking on the gray triangle in the Name column shows the resolutions for each occurrence of the image Size This shows the size of the original image in pixels When the gray triangle is developed the size of each occurence of the image is shown in the unit defined in the Preferences e g mm Color This shows the color space of the image If the color space is DeviceN the number
158. ype Tool opens the Object window called Text window if text is selected Shortcut T 4 4 17 Text Block Tool You can have an overview of all text blocks and edit them with the Text Block Tool a you Can easily identify select move resize and link text blocks See Text Overview Shortcut Shift T 4 4 18 Densitometer Tool E F The Densitometer Tool shows the separation values and the total ink percentage at the mouse location when clicking or dragging For more details see Densitometer Tool Double clicking on the Densitometer Tool opens the View separations window Shortcut 4 4 19 Measure Tool You can use the Measure Tool gt to show the distance a particular point is from the left and bottom of the trim box or from the Ruler origin You can also use it to measure the distance from one point to another For more details see Measure Tool iI Cut Preflight 5 Appearance 59 9 Appearance 9 1 Fill Paint Stroke Paint Double click the Paint Tool to open the Fill Paint window AA Fill Paint OR al i E Cyan 0 0 Magenta 0 0 ES Yellow 0 0 Black 0 0 Y Pantone 2738 c 0 0 E PANTONE 164 100 0 Registration Overprint Shortcut Command Mac or Ctrl Windows This window defines the paint of the selected object Click the Fill or Stroke square to bring it to the front and define either the Fill or Stroke Paint You can also swap the c

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