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1. Pan Window Use the Pan Window to see an overview of your document and the current view The document is displayed as a thumbnail with a rectangle indicating the current view Pan Window es We i oD You can program views that you intend to use more than once with this job The job is represented as a thumbnail over which lies a representation of the viewport rectangle If you select another job that is on the screen the dialog box will be updated Viewport rectangle selection of the thumbnail view The viewport rectangle lies over the thumbnail view You can see the viewport rectangle in the image window and follow its movements in the thumbnail view The viewport rectangle will be updated each time you make a change to your window view and conversely if you move this small viewport rectangle over the Pan box thumbnail view the view within your current window will be updated at the same time To move the viewport 207 EE eskos came 208 e Press the arrow keys on the keyboard e Press the buttons that appear in the envelope e Drag the viewport rectangle in the thumbnail view of the image If you click and hold the cursor over the thumbnail view the viewport rectangle follows the point of the cursor until you release the mouse button and drop the viewport rectangle at the desired part e Or click the program buttons if they have been programmed yet Program buttons To preset some view
2. 1 2 3 pn Open the graphics that you want to tile as a Graphic in i cut Layout In Layout Setup add Graphics with a die that indicates the typical cut lines for jigsaw puzzles In Graphic View choose Preparation gt Select Cut Path and select the appropriate cut path from the list The specific jigsaw cut path will become visible and the Cut Path field in the Graphics tab will state Manual to indicate that the cut path has been changed In Graphic View select the die and choose Tools gt Jigsaw Tiling Enter a Tile Bleed value and if necessary a Milling Diameter Click Create Tiles Bleed masks will be updated and the individual tiles will appear in the Graphics tab You will notice that the original PDF file is deselected number ordered set to zero and will thus no longer be taken into account when creating the final layout Continue searching the layout s as normal See Creating Layouts 5 6 1 Jigsaw Tiling Jigsaw tiling works very much like standard tiling except for the fact that the tiles are not rectangular but that the tile edges are defined by the different red selected contours Compensation will be applied on both sides of the tile edges Note Create Tiles is only available when one or more closed contours are selected in red Of ESKO i cut Layout Tip It is advised to have the jigsaw shapes available as contours in a specific spot color and extract them as Cut Path Tigs
3. Change Board Export Save Graphics Preview as PNG Distribute Selection Undistribute Expand Fit Panel in Document Window Show Face Outlines When Show Face Outlines is switched on the selected panel in the Studio window will be shown in the 2D View deseo You will immediately see that there is no overlap between the selected panel the blue rectangle and the selected art the star so you basically selected the wrong panel You need to select a panel that has an overlap with the selected art 190 i cut Layout Orientation Lal k E Now you see that there definitely is an overlap between the blue rectangle and the star You will notice that Distribute Selection will work which will give you the following result Orientation Please note that you never had to specify to which target panel you had to distribute so how can you know which target panels will be taken In this version of Studio Designer the distribute functionality only works on coplanar panels The bottom face consists of four panels coming together two glue panels and two larger panels The selected panel is drawn with a solid blue line in the 2D View the other panels that are coplanar with it are drawn with dashed lines Distribution happens from the panel drawn with a solid blue line to the panels drawn in dashed blue lines That is why Show Face Outlines is so interes
4. For some collada files it can occur that the artwork for one part is also displayed on another part This can happen if the two corresponding ARD files have identical physical dimensions For these Collada files please use the procedure as described in Collada files with Multiple Printable Parts Navigating between the different PackEdge documents When multiple PackEdge documents supply artwork to the same scene you can double click any of the parts in the Studio window to make the corresponding PackEdge document active See also Zooming in on Panels in the document window If you click on a printable part for which there is no PackEdge document you will be asked to create a new document for that part 3D Guides In Illustrator PackEdge you can create horizontal and vertical Guides to align art Studio Designer offers another type of guides 3D Guides for boxes and Collada files 3D guides appear both in the document window and in the Studio Window VLE ESKO 178 i cut Layout Note 3D guides are temporary visual aids and are NOT saved You can hide or show the 3D guides in the document window by switching the visibility of the 3D Guides layer on or off in the Layer window Select Show Hide 3D Guides from the Studio fly out menu or click the button at the bottom to hide or show the 3D guides in the Studio Window In the Studio Window the 3D guides appear like a horizontal or vertical plane that is intersec
5. M Light Margin Indicator BE facut KBox Check the Box checkbox to automatically create a box behind the bar code The box has the size of the required light margin around the bar code After creating the bar code with the box they both appear selected in red The bar code and the box can have different color properties 120 i cut Layout Bar Code Box Inks Position Wo Box Cit 0 500 mm 1 000 mm 0 500 mm INKS For the basic Ink settings see Setting Inks in SmartMarks Bar Code Bow Ink Position Ink E Registration Select Inks Uverprint fe Opaque Ignore Similar Inks Ignore Technical Inks Ignore Yarnish Inks with Step ai 0 000 mm With Step repeats the mark in various inks with a step between each repetition Position The Position tab is identical to the Position tab of the Image Mark dialog box 8 3 10 Text Mark The Text dialog box allows you to create additional text on a specified position and a certain orientation The additional text fields will be put next to each other on the specified position Text fields can contain any additional information that you type in and will be created in the ink selected The text Mark has three tabs e Text e Inks 121 ES eEskos came 122 e Position Text To create additional text on a specified position and orientation Tip The Text Mark can be moved in your job by simply using the Move tool i i
6. Optimize Illustrator Patterns into PostScript patterns Illlustrator writes patterns in a different way than PostScript does default behavior is that Illustrator patterns will be optimized Normally this speeds up the further processing less linework in your file sometimes though the optimization itself may take some time Use PostScript rules for color conversion Check this box to make sure that all color management will happen using PostScript rules in stead of BGCMS Most options in the Color Management tabsheet will be greyed out Recognize ArtScreen Ipi angle Check this box and the application will try to recognize screens that are created in ArtPro applications and swap them to Esko Graphics screens If a E PS or PDF i cut Layout file with an unknown ArtScreen is imported an error will be generated For more information please refer to the ScreenFilter user manual 6 3 8 Output The Output tab is used to specify the name and directories for converted PostScript files PostScript Import J xj Pages Color Management Inks Overprint Images Page Size Other Output Output name Output directory Select Folder Image creation path Select Folder Fit Media Box margins Show report Keep layers m m a m Limit filename length to masimum 31 characters Place External e Available options on the Output tab are Output Name Specify an output name for the files created during
7. Rendering intent e Relative No Background Use this option if you do not want any background simulation The white point of the source will be mapped on the white point of the destination process This rendering intent takes into account the ability of the human eye to adapt to the surrounding white e Absolute Background Use this option if you want background simulation and you want an exact color match including the paper simulation Map black on black When toggled on the CMY part of the composite colors are converted separately from the black component As a result the type of black separation Skeleton UCR GCR is preserved by the conversion It is still possible that the black percentage changes slightly due to different dot gain in the color profiles When toggled off the converted CMYK colors are completely re separated into the black behavior that is built into the destination profile i cut Layout Use the document profile as source profile if available If there is a document profile defined that will be used as a source profile The one chosen from the Source Profile drop down list will be overruled Embed the Destination profile as an intermediate color space If this toggle is off the colors in the PDF file will not be tagged with an ICC color profile The document is device dependent and its colors will only be reproduced accurately if the PDF file is output on the device that is specified in the Destination Pro
8. Scale You can scale the Image Mark If the Image Mark is attached to a Position Mark other scale options are possible Scale to fit Downscale to fit Autorotate and scale to fit To fit to the Sheet Clip or Repeat the Image This option will copy the image a number of times so that its width and or height matches the width and or height of the anchor point sheet sheet visible objects If the size is too large a clip path will be applied to make sure that the image exactly matches the required size INKS For the basic Ink settings see Setting Inks in SmartMarks Image Inks Position l Ink E Registration Select Inks Uverprint p Opaque Ignore Similar Inks Ignore Technical Inks Ignore Varnish Inks with Step 2 0 000 mm TO Interleaved with Select Ink erone IM Startwith lt none gt M lgnore Darkest Ink White Underprint Settings Image Inks Position Ignore Yamish Inks White Underprint Settings With Step is active when the ink is set to Registration or Custom The mark object will be repeated in each of the seleted inks The repetition is done using the specified step parameters direction step gap Interleaved with can be used in combination with With Step Inbetween each stepped instance of the mark object an additional instance of the mark object will be present in the specified ink 114 i cut Layout Ey Start with can be used in combination
9. Auto None 90 cw 90 ccw 180 The orientation options are disabled when Tile job is selected e Alignment Bottom left Top left Top right Bottom right Centered The alignment options are disabled when Tile job is selected e Enter the number of copies Device The Resolution depends on your output device and on the purpose of the PostScript file For proofing for example a lower resolution might be sufficient Select the Dotshape i cut Layout Ee Halftoning If you select CMYK Composite or Composite as Output type you can choose to include screen information when outputting lpi and angle e Use Printer Defaults the output device s default screen info will be used e Take over from job e Some devices offer other dotshapes if they are available in the PPD Dot Gain Compensation You can select Dot Gain Compensation DGC curves made with IntelliCurve or IntelliCurvePro Note A screen based DGC file was the format written by the two DGC Editors DGC Editor and Screen based DGC Editor These two editors have been replaced by IntelliCurve which writes DGC Strategies However a screen based DGC file can still be applied e Single curve Allows you to select one DGC curve dgc file that will be applied to all your data e Automatic Allows you to select a screen based DGC table scrdgc file or a DGC Strategy icpro file The former allows you to apply dot gain compensation selectively depending on th
10. Me skoe cme Contents Te POIG ee eee ee ee ee en ee ee ee ee eee 6 1 1 Welcome TO I CUT Lay OU seccnscecsnesescaspnsanedsern conse Enea r A EO EE a A stare 6 1 2 Who is this guide aimed At oo cccceeeccceecstscsssssscsressssetecscecsssscssesssseesssessssstesesessessssetsessrasesisetssesenresena 6 To GG AGIA TNC Sha aoe cepts cae T E eat 6 2 Getting Started with i cut LAYOUT sisiccissteisivierscoiisssittavsassaiareenostvvneiivnnasiatisioleiieniaves abasttescctvinartenstte eoataat ennennaitisanesanisdnsatietswaeon EEEE 8 2 1 Starnting eut EA OUI eaire acto hep ern be in eb E ASEE EER EET one ad EEE REEE AATE IE aE EEEa a E N EENE 8 2 2 Creating your first nested layout s e sssrssssensenrtsnntnninttknkt knrn ttt tkrk rtt nANEIANEIENEAIENENINENIENENIENAEEENENEEKEEEEEEEEEEEE EErEE Et 8 2 3 Concepts and ideas in i cut LAY OUT aire crcssncecanersctiseininanratnt cua anausecuettanadneeninaaiabstenadamberetinaandnecsateacnddnaimeuneiies 13 DW MS EVO a E A E 14 Pai Pam VOW MO a E E E E E A E E 15 Be Oe TOI Ah WV OMG OWN arspetenecocza nora erecroneaiasntgutce a E C ER a a samba dannaiemcoedt 15 2 3 4 DOCUMENT window EIEMENTHS ccccccce cee ecscsscssecscsesscessetscsssecsvesecssestsnesecssessreseisseterisetsssetseresenss 15 223 0 EVVLO TANG MONATO aeeie E E E ERA Ani ianei 17 2 3 6 External Fil S c cc cccccccccscscssscscscscsssscsvsscscsssscsvsssecssesssvsssscssessevsssecssessevsssecesessevssescecessecesestecesseseseeuesese
11. Show as Film Positive and Show as Film Negative are more useful on a single separation switching to one of those will show only one separation Highlight Traps The Traps checkbox highlights all automatic traps in the file so you can check your trapping Transparency This will highlight all objects that have an opacity percentage a blend mode or an opacity mask regardless of what is underneath Overprint Highlight Overprint will highlight the areas where an overprint setting in the paint style takes effect Screening Conflict The Screening Conflict checkbox highlights areas where a screening conflict can occur They can occur if an object with transparency opacity mask opacity percentage or blend mode is overlapping on an object with another screening The PDF definition clearly states that screening is always taken from the topmost object even if that object is completely transparent in some areas In most cases this is not what you would expect In the example underneath you can see a cyan rectangle and a circle on top with an opacity mask The objects have a different screening Where the circle is on top of the cyan rectangle the cyan will take the screening of the blended circle Therefore as shown on the right these areas will be highlighted as Screen Conflict 147 EE eskos came 148 Dim Artwork When you enable an Highlight option the document artwork is faded to the percentage you choose
12. a Starting where you want the top left corner of the rectangle click hold and drag to create the rectangle You can also simply click where you would like the top left corner of the rectangle and the bottom right corner of the rectangle Holding the ALT key while dragging will draw the rectangle from the center You also use the rectangle tool to create a square You constrain the rectangle to a square by turning on constrain Tip Note that a preference setting allows you to draw a rectangle in a single click To draw an ellipse a Starting where you want the top left corner of the ellipse click hold and drag to create the oval You can also simply click where you would like the top left corner of the ellipse and the bottom right corner of the ellipse Holding the ALT key while dragging will draw the ellipse from the center You also use the ellipse tool to create a circle You constrain the ellipse to a circle by turning on constrain Tip Note that a preference setting allows you to draw an ellipse in a single click To draw a polygon Select the Draw Polygon button from the fly out toolbar Click where you want the first point of the polygon Click to create each additional point in the polygon Type 2 to close and end the contour Type 3 to end the contour without closing it ao Oo Note The Geometry Marks tool also allows you to draw splines A simple click will create a new line segment If you c
13. of your job You may opt to give the mark a stroke instead of a fill Select the Stroke toggle and enter a width Tint Enter a percentage If you enter 50 the mark will be shown using 50 percent of the inks INKS See Setting Inks in SmartMarks 117 ES eskos cum Position The Position tab is identical to the Position tab of the Image Mark dialog box 8 3 9 Bar code A Bar Code mark generates a bar code object The Bar code dialog box has four tabs e Bar Code e Box e Inks e Position Please check the Dynamic Bar Codes manual on the Documentation DVD or via Help for more information on the different bar code types Bar Code Bar Code Bow Inks Position Type EAN 13 Code 234567890128 O00000 kiti Bar width Reduction ooo Device Compensation poo H Magnification Height j25930 H Output Resolution jso cam W Characters I Light Margin Indicator QD t Type Select a bar code type from the list Code Io enter the digits of the bar code Note When entering a wrong number of digits or wrong begin or end digits the system displays a warning message informing you on the required number of digits or displaying the correct code The code is corrected automatically 118 i cut Layout Ey Bar Width Reduction To adapt the bar width of the bar code This is necessary to adapt the bar code to printing processes where the ink tends to bleed To compensate
14. Optimize Illustrator patterns into PostScript patterns Use PostScript rules for color conversion a e a a a a Recognize ArScreen lpi angle lM Place External al Customized Settings Substitute Missing Fonts Roman fonts by choose a default replacement font for the missing fonts for this job on your system Japanese fonts by choose a default replacement font for the missing fonts for this job on your system Images Import 1 bit images as e Embed Images become internal black and white bitmaps e Linked file Images are imported as external referenced LP files e Contours Images are contourized during import of the E PS file Ge Re Eskos cme 74 CT display images Choose Yes to create a display image for the generated CT files on the fly Output file display images This option is activated when Split Up a MultiPage File was activated Select the type of display from the drop down list None Thumbnail Image Miscellaneous Device resolution xxx ppi Device resolution is the resolution used internally by Certln during the normalization Normally the produced output is not dependent of this internal resolution but in some rare cases like when converting RIP test strips or device specific tests it is important that this value is the same resolution of the final RIP device which will be used to print output Virtual Memory Limit The default value for the virtual memory is 50MB The limit is set to 1 gi
15. Select the Category e g File of which you want to personalize a shortcut 3 Select the command you wish to personalize e g New 4 Now personalize your shortcut Enter a key and click Assign Note If you want to remove a shortcut click Remove If you want to return to the original shortcuts click Reset All Server and Resources tab To define the Automation Engine server to connect to and the Data Resources to be used by the application as you work on a job Note In case the application is connected to an Automation Engine or BackStage server the Data Resources are always used from this server You can use the remote or local Data resources if the application is not connected to an Automation Engine or BackStage server General Defaults View Color Editing Files Shortcuts Serwver Resources Licenses Offcuts CV Restart the application to make these changes effective Data Resources Select the location from where the application s data resources must be used ie ue O From share on remote computer Use from local system Show Location of Data Resources cP Restart the application to make these changes effective Remarks 1 There is no license to use the central Color Engine Database 2 The application s local data resources will be used when the remote data resources are not accessible Automation Engine Server You can set the Server Name User Name and
16. Yo b E PANTONE 191 C Ga v E PANTONE 191C 100 S v E PANTONE 191C m E PANTONE 195C E PANTONE 115C E PANTONE 195C E PANTONE 115C E PANTONE 195C E PANTONE 115C x Define Color by ink Names im 9 MB PANTONE 195C E PANTONE 115C Tip drag a color swatch from the Colors palette to the color sample at the top right Tip drag a color swatch from the Colors palette to the color sample at the top right Z Zi Color Name i cut Layout All named colors are displayed in the list Select one of them by selecting the button in front of the color To create a new color you can simply drop a color from the Colors palette on the patch This color will be added to the list and gets a default name Color 1 Color 2 The color name will also be displayed in the Colors palette At any time you are able to change this name in the Define Color dialog box When changing the name in the Define Color dialog box the Colors palette will updated automatically Define Color by Color Name i Define Color by Color Name E Define Color by Color Name f Color Color La Color gt B Clouds Ga O I Clouds ga O E Clouds Gd O o Outline O ii Outline 1 O F Outline O Skin O Skin O E Color 1 ape x Colors ttt was ti L o mm o L EEE UUL EEE UUL L BZ eee ee OO
17. but make them clearly visualized by a small thumbnail preview linear linear updown conical conical updown elliptical elliptical updown elliptical eccentric elliptical updown eccentric rectangle rectangle updown rectangle eccentric rectangle updown eccentric parallellogramic parallellogramic updown parallellogramic eccentric parallellogramic updown eccentric edge softmask and CT mask Opacity Gradient Fill i Solid Creating and Editing PDF Opacity Masks The Opacity Gradient dialog allows you to create and edit PDF Opacity Masks in PackEdge 6 0 Any object in a document even linked files can be used as a mask for another object The mask overlays the selected object covering entirely where the mask is solid or partially showing through based upon the shades of colors on the mask The level of opacity is based on the difference of the luminance from the colors of the mask and the object white is 100 opaque black is 100 transparent and grays colors change to grayscale on a mask have varying levels 203 204 i cut Layout Opacity Gradient Fill Create a PDF Opacity Mask by double clicking on the Opacity Gradient icon in the Effects dialog to open the Opacity Gradient dialog Select the opacity mask into a green selection and the object on which the opacity mask has to be applied into the red selection Press the Opacity Mask button w to apply the green selected object as an opacity m
18. change When the link is intact each change to the dialog box is immediately displayed Clicking the icon toggles between these two settings Tip A quick and easy way to hide or show all dialog boxes is to select Hide Show All on the Window menu Select Too Use the Select tool to select objects in the document window You must select objects before you can transform them Selected objects are always highlighted in red If you select objects but they are not highlighted make sure that the Show Selection in Preview box is checked in Preferences i cut Layout supports two types of selection red selection and green selection Objects selected in red can be transformed and modified Objects selected in green cannot be transformed or modified i cut Layout s Align window uses green selections to align objects to one another e Selecting an object e Selecting an object in green e Selecting multiple objects e Selecting all objects e Deselecting an object Selecting an object To select individual objects i cut Layout 1 Click Select on the toolbar The Select button changes to a blue button showing that it is the active tool 2 Click the object you want to select The object is selected in red indicating that it can be transformed or modified Selecting an object To select individual objects 1 Click Select on the toolbar The Select button changes to a blue button showing that it is the active tool 2 Click
19. if desired Press the appropriate Align Edge to Edge button in the Align Window ee YS The Align Edge to Edge commands use the nearest opposite edge to determine which way to move the red selection Before using these options arrange the objects so that the edges that you are aligning are in the relationship that you want You don t have to be entirely accurate or even close i cut Layout just needs to be able to clearly identify which edges that you want to align Align Window Tips e The Align Window uses one object that is locked the green selection to align the other objects It is a good idea to have the green selected object in the right location before starting with the Align options e After using the Align commands you can still move the objects around the sheet But if you want these objects to preserve their relationship with one another you have to make sure that you select and move them together A good way to maintain the alignment parameters is to use the Group command immediately after Then the objects that you aligned will always be selected and moved as a single object e The Align commands also work with multiple selections This makes it easy to align several objects at one time with a single command Aligning in the Graphic View The Align window also works in the Graphic View However the 2 centering features of Align do not center objects on the sheet since a Graphic has no sheet Instead these 2 options c
20. png file mainly for use in Studio Toolkit for Flexibles STUDIO Refresh Orientation lal Show Transparent Panels Show Outlines Show 3D Guides Appearance Turn Box fe Bring Panel Forward ml D a 2s ee send Fane B AC k Weed LJ Export Save Graphics Preview as PNG Distribute Selection Undistribute Expand Fit Panel in Document Window Show Face Outlines FA ceca contains the answers to a number of Frequently Asked Questions This section contains the answers to a number of Frequently Asked Questions There is no overlap between the selected objects and the selected panel try to distribute a logo and am getting the error message There is no overlap between the selected objects and the selected panel Please select a panel that overlaps with the selected objects Whenever distributing for the first time you will need to select two things the graphics that you want to distribute in the 2D view AND the source panel in the Studio window The no overlap error message indicates that you did select a panel in the Studio window but in 2D there is no overlap between the selected panel and the selected art It is a good idea to switch on Show Face Outlines in Studio s fly out menu 189 Orientation La Ea a i cut Layout Refresh Show Transparent Panels Show Outlines Show 3D Guides Appearance Turn Box Bring Panel Forward Send Panel Backward Fold ArtiosCAD File
21. After nesting center graphics on sheet option will have no effect on a layout if one or more offcut sheets can be generated This depends on the setting of the Offcut preferences See Offcut sheets on page 34 Guillotine cuts Guillotine cuts will prepare layouts to be cut on a Guillotine table reducing the number of cuts and making sure all cuts are possible on a guillotine cutter Underneath on the left is an example of a layout created using Minimal Waste that can t be cut on a guillotine cutter When using Guillotine Cuts the result will be the layout shown on the right The remaining Graphic will be placed on another layout i cut Layout z Find Nested Layouts Nesting Type Guillotine Cut Respect the Graphic s Order First Cut Horizontal Gutter t 5 000 mm p 5 000 mm Masimum veran o o ra Rotation Allow 90 degree Layout Hame Juntitled Find Layouts Mov Respect the Graphic s Order will place the Graphics in the order they appear in the Graphics list You can define the direction of the First Cut and the Gutter width If the lock after the Gutter field is disabled you can set a different width for vertical and horizontal gutters Allowing Overrun can help to better balance the quantities and reduce the number of different layouts Rotation can be set to No Rotation or Allow 90 degree Find Layouts Now When you entered all values and adjusted the nesting options you can click
22. Alignment pop up menu Clicking this button will perform an Auto Align from Ruler if a ruler selection is active otherwise an Auto Align from view Ior EE eskos came Viewer Compare Preferences You can open the Compare Preferences by choosing Illustrator gt Preferences gt Esko gt Viewer Compare Preferences on Mac OS or Edit gt Preferences gt Esko gt Viewer Compare Preferences on Windows You can define the resolution for the Viewer Compare previews either based on the document size or at a fixed resolution Based on Document Size will result in a low resolution for big documents so e g aligning will become more difficult when zooming in On the other hand a Fixed Resolution can result in a very heavy preview calculation if the fixed resolution is high and the document is large You can define if anti aliasing should be applied 9 1 4 Arrange menu The Arrange menu contains following items To Front To move an object on top of all other objects within the current layer To Back To move an object underneath all other objects within the current layer Forward To move an object one step up within the current layer Backward To move an object one step down within the current layer 9 1 5 Preparation menu The Preparation menu contains following items Edit Graphics File allows to open the graphics file in the default editor This gives the same result as double clicking the graphics file in your opera
23. Auto Align e Use trim box for alignment e Offset Horizontal and Vertical Align from Ruler 156 The ruler tool works by defining two points one in each file that have to be aligned 1 Select the reference version of the file by clicking the icon oY 3 Indicate the ruler anchor point Select the Ruler tool i cut Layout Ee A Switch to the other version by clicking the icon or use Ctrl S The anchor point here in the red circle will be in a different location in the second file version 5 Indicate the point that should be positioned on the ruler anchor point here in the blue circle p18 mm L32 Click the Alignment button and select Align From Ruler The files are now aligned Note Depending on how precisely you defined the second ruler point you may have to zoom in and repeat the alignment procedure to align your files with more precision Auto Align from Ruler Auto Align from Ruler is used the same way as the Align from Ruler tool but is more accurate at high resolution lf the details of the alignment points match the viewer will be able to increase the alignment precision and have a good alignment with fewer iterations Auto Align Auto Align does not use the ruler but rather the currently visible view of the two compared images to attempt an automatic alignment For convenience a separate tool button is available to perform an Auto Align operation without having to open the
24. Black W DieLine 3 DieLine Print File Preset pat t Actions File Hame NewLayout 1 Settings In Folder Select Folder Cutting File Preset ficut file e Schons File Type Cut File File Hame NewLayout 1 In Folder Select Folder Report ML report JPEG thumbnail with resolution 72 dpi In Folder Select Folder 2 3 Concepts and ideas in i cut Layout e Graphics and Layouts e View Modes e Typical workflow e Document window elements e Entering information 13 ESKO cue e External Files 2 3 1 Graphics and Layouts 14 The primary objects that you create in i cut Layout are Graphics and Layouts A Graphic is the object that you want to repeat on a sheet or Layout You may have several copies of the same Graphic or of different Graphics in one Layout You may already be familiar with this concept Sometimes the terms 1 up the non repeated object or station and sheet are used to indicate Graphics and Layouts In ArtiosCAD a design file is the equivalent of a Graphic and a manufacturing file is the equivalent of a Layout e What is a Graphic e What is a layout Wheat is a Graphic A Graphic can contain a graphic file a cut path a mask and graphic marks You are not required to have a cut path a mask and graphic marks in your Graphic All Graphics should contain a graphic but i cut Layout has the notion of Placeholders which are empty graphics
25. Customize Tiling i 833 333 mim Merge Tiles 1 If the selected tiles have the same size vertically or horizontally you can change the vertical or horizontal size of all selected tiles at once The size changes will be applied to the bottom vertical or to the right horizontal of the selected tiles 2 Ifthe selected tiles form a rectangle you can use the Merge Tiles button to combine the selected tiles into one single tile 59 ESKO cue If a line tile side row side or column side is selected z Customize Tiling Positions 833 333 mm Insert Gap e You can change the position of the line by entering a distance The distance is measured from the top for horizontal lines or left side for vertical lines of the Grid e Insert Gap allows to create an empty zone on the border of the tile row or column A dialog will open where you can enter the width of the Gap and the positioning on the left center or right for vertical edges or on the top center or bottom for horizontal edges Note A gap can be used e g when spreading an image over adjacent windows in an office wall the gap is used for the window frames or muntins Tiling Report If the Create Report option is enabled a report will be generated when clicking the Create Tiles button You can set the Paper Size A4 or Letter the name for the Report and the Folder where the report needs to be saved Note If you leave the name field blank t
26. DGC must have been set up completely The value does not correspond with any measurement that has been made prior or during DGC set up nor does it correspond with any densitometer measurement on plate or on print In fact this value is implicitly chosen by the person who set up the DGC and plate making Typical values range from 0 4 to 1 6 i cut Layout Ee PackEdge uses 8 bit precision yielding 256 different possible gray values A single gray value in an image may make the difference between a dot or no dot on a flexo plate To allow for this precision Viewer uses percentages with one decimal digit 8 bit gray value in PackEdge Percentage 0 0 0 1 0 4 2 0 8 3 1 2 254 99 6 255 100 Note If you do not specify a first dot you will not be able to use the following Viewer view modes for this press setting e The Flexo Plate Preview e The Flexo Print Preview Dot Gain in Highlights When you have specified a First Dot job percentage you can also specify how dark it should actually print Enable Dot Gain In Highlights and specify the dot gain parameters e First Dot Prints As indicates the dot gain for the first dot Typical values range from 5 to 15 depending on the substrate The value is a job percentage that will print on an ideal reference press as dark as the first dot prints on this press e Range while the previous value measured the amount of dot gain in the highlights this value expresses how far th
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28. Layout ES Portions of this software are copyright 1996 2002 The FreeType Project www freetype org All rights reserved This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group Portions of this software are copyright 2006 Feeling Software copyright 2005 2006 Autodesk Media Entertainment Portions of this software are copyright 1998 2003 Daniel Veillard All rights reserved Portions of this software are copyright 1999 2006 The Botan Project All rights reserved Part of the software embedded in this product is gSOAP software Portions created by gSOAP are Copyright 2001 2004 Robert A van Engelen Genivia inc All rights reserved Portions of this software are copyright 1998 2008 The OpenSSL Project and 1995 1998 Eric Young eay cryptsoft com All rights reserved This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation http www apache org Adobe the Adobe logo Acrobat the Acrobat logo Adobe Creative Suite Illustrator InDesign PDF Photoshop PostScript XMP and the Powered by XMP logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and or other countries Microsoft and the Microsoft logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries SolidWorks is a registered trademark of SolidWorks Corporation Portions of this software are owned by Spatial Corp 1986 2003 All Rights Reserv
29. Please consider making a number of test prints in order to find the most optimal values Take into account that while high values guarantee improved readability the bar code will take more space and might not be as swiftly read by the bar code reader 107 ES eskos cum Inks See Setting Inks in SmartMarks 8 3 2 Waste Divider Waste Divider marks will cut up the waste around the placed graphics into parts that can fit in your waste bin SmartMark Options Waste Divider x Orientation vetica Maximum Size 250 000 mm keep away Distance 10 000 mm Minimum Length 0 000 mm Apply The Orientation allows two choose between Vertical Horizontal or Vertical amp Horizontal waste dividers The Maximum Size of the remainders basically defines how big the parts can be to fit in your waste bin The Keep Away Distance defines how close the waste dividers can be to the actual graphics With Minimum Length you can avoid small parts to prevent slowing down the cutting process 8 3 3 ARS mark The ARS SmartMarks creates ARS marks which can be read by an ARS camera SmartMark Options ARS Mark 108 i cut Layout Ey Mark There are 3 types of ARS marks available a cross an a corner and a circle You can make the following settings e Horizontal size Vertical size and line thickness for the cross and corner shaped ARS marks or the circumference for the circle ARS mark e The offset bo
30. Type either a File or a Placeholder see Working with Placeholders setting or selecting the Name of the file or use the browse button to select another file You complete the back side the same way that you did the front The cut path of the front is automatically mirrored to the back Tip e fthe graphic that you are using is multi page the back side will be created with the subsequent page If this is not the graphic that you want delete it and import a different graphic for the back side e If you have used the Create Bleed Mask tool to create a mask on the front side of the Graphic this mask is included on the back side If you do not want the same mask on the back use the Create Bleed Mask tool to create a different mask for the back side of the Graphic i cut Layout 17 If you receive a file that contains the front and the back of a Graphic and the bounding box of the front and back are not well aligned or i o w are not positioned in relation to the center you are strongly advised to fit the trim box on the cut path Note 7 4 2 Two sided sheets i cut Layout can create the back of a sheet layout from the front for two sided printing In the Document Setup you define if you want to Turn or Tumble See Document Setup e Turn rotates the sheet around the vertical center of the sheet The left edge of the sheet becomes the right edge of the sheet on the back e Tumble rotates the sheet around the horizontal center of
31. also personalize the footer text and include your own message 185 ESKO i cut Layout Preview File Type PDF File with 3D Design H Width 297 mm H Height 210 mm KH IM Add Footer Texture Size 7 1 me ixel i anii 3D Presentation View Angle From Studio Window HA 39 7 2 75 Perspective 45 Mi include Graphics at 133 ppi HA Cl Avoid Artifacts Note To avoid z fighting problems in the exported PDF files you can use the Avoid Artefacts option This will make sure that whenever it is unclear which panel is on top resulting in flickering graphics a calculated choice will be made cutting out the underlying part and giving the top part carte blanche 186 i cut Layout Ee Export to a USD File U3D is a common exchange format for 3D objects For example in Acrobat Professional 8 0 1 or higher you can place USD files in PDF files Choose Export from Studio s fly out menu Choose USD File as file type Tor ESKO6 bide Preview File Type U3D File KH 3D Presentation View Angle From Studio Window HH d 39 7 2 75 Perspective 45 M Include Graphics at 300 ppi KH Avoid Artifacts Texture Size 7 1 megapixel Note To avoid z fighting problems in the exported U3D files you can use the Avoid Artefacts option This will make sure that whenever it is unclear which panel is on top resulting in flickering graphics a cal
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33. collapse them using the triangle beside View Options The following options are available in all Previews Separation visibility In the Ink list you can e Click the eye icon in front of a separation color name to show or hide it e Click the eye button above the separations colors list to show or hide all separations colors e Click the ink name not the eye button to quicly hide all other separations and go in single separation mode Reverse Printing Order Use the Reverse Printing Order button a to view how your file would look like with its ink order reversed When Reverse Printing Ink Order is enabled itis always used in all windows and a red arrow icon is visible in the title bar of all the windows Orientation 146 The orientation buttons allow to change the orientation of the Preview of the job ea al This is applied to all windows when Show in All Windows is active or only to the current window when Show in All Windows is inactive Note Keep in mind that this only changes the rotation of the preview it does NOT actually rotate the job Separations The first viewing mode shows a list of used inks i cut Layout Ee Mode a By default a separation is displayed in color In order to see a separation as it would appear on film you can switch to Show as Film Positive By switching to Show as Film Negative the visible separation will be shown in negative Note As both
34. conversion If no name is specified the original PostScript file name is used Output Directory Specify the directory where the converted files should be saved If no directory is specified the converted files are saved in the current working directory Note If an Image Directory is specified generated CT images will be saved in the image directory and will not be saved in the Output Directory specified here Image Creation Path If during normalization extra image data is created you can indicate here where these images should be written If no output directory is specified then CT images generated during the conversion will be saved in the current working directory Fit Media Box margins Check this box to automatically fit the margins to the bounding box of all the objects in the file Show Report This option displays valuable information during the import of PostScript files Information about errors linked images search directories is displayed Keep Layers Keeps the Illustrator layer information This will only work for Illustrator 8 files It will not work for native Illustrator 9 files or higher When normalizing PDF 1 5 files or higher the Keep Layer option will also preserve the PDF layers Limit Filename Length to Maximum 31 characters Check this box if you want to make sure your imported files can be seen read from by all Apple operating systems CTs that are kept on a Windows share but might be edited on a
35. cut Layout creates a markup grid automatically If you want to create guides numerically you need to create a markup grid first and then enter the locations of the guides that you want to create To create a guide interactively 1 Click and drag a guide from either the vertical or horizontal ruler 2 Release the mouse button to create the guide oF ESKO came If the Layer Browser is open you will see that i cut Layout has created a markup grid for this guide if there was none You can also create a markup grid numerically You use the Mark up dialog box to enter the exact location that you would like for the guide You can also use the Mark up dialog box to fine tune the position of a guide that you created interactively Finally opening the Mark up dialog box makes it possible to select move and delete guides To create a markup grid numerically 1 Open the Layer Browser by clicking Layer Browser on the Window menu 2 Click the Add Markup Grid Layer button H The Mark up dialog box appears Click to add Start at n gg x B3 67202 y 49 09623 Select the tab for vertical or horizontal guides based on the type of guide you want to add Enter the position for the guide in the field below Press Enter to add the guide Click the appropriate button to position the guide relative to the top left corner of the sheet O oh Q or relative to a crosshair The guide you added is selected in
36. document However sometimes you would like to make combinations of more than one Illustrator document or more than one structural design file Some examples are e A box with inside and outside artwork e A bottle with more than one label e A tray containing 6 cans e A complicated multi piece display This chapter describes the different mechanisms behind these workflows Alternative scenes Load Scene At the top of the Studio Window is the Scene dropdown box Here you can see which structural design file is currently visible in the Studio Window By default this is the same file that is placed in your document but from this drop down you can load other structural design files 170 i cut Layout STUDIO ren Seen Onellp Sleeved zae Orientation ABE Remove e Your artwork will appear automatically on the loaded scene if the following conditions are met e There is a structural design file placed in the PackEdge document e The selected scene has a printable part e The printable part has the same size as the placed structural design OO _ 087209_927_Can_Label ai 88 CMYK Overprint Preview i F T Ta a z mt d i Pe a a Wie owe trace all oer meat hack te the tine pew kaa peu IN the great food he dar JELLY pA Mmm ul pamintane CS GOOD HONEST with succulent lamb peas amp carrots with succulent lamb peas amp carrots with essential vitamins amp minerals With essential v
37. doing so a designer ink is added to the ink list representing the chosen color When replacing a Placeholder the inks from the Placeholder are cleaned up automatically if no longer used As such the dummy inks created when assigning colors to Placeholders will be cleaned up automatically when the Placeholders get replaced by the actual Graphics Display Image mode displays all objects in color External files like Graphics and image marks will be shown using their Display Image If an external file does not have a display image it will be shown as a color cross High mode shows all objects in color and with ink based color management applied This mode is extremely accurate However the display speed may be slow due to the high level of detail being calculated and displayed Please refer to the chapter Preview on page 141 for additional information View Modes The View mode menu makes it possible to easily switch between the two different view modes E Sheet La Graphic The Sheet View shows the sheet the margins and all Graphics that have been placed In this view you can switch between the front and the back of a sheet The Graphic View shows individual Graphics Please refer to the chapter View Selector for more information Viewer i cut Layout Welcome to Viewer Benefits of using Viewer Viewer is a very accurate separation viewer with a lot of extra production tools It eliminates the need for separa
38. i Overprinting default is non zero overprinting PostS cript Overprint Keep PostScript Overprint Pure Black As Other Colos Rich Black s Other Cols 0 white Force Opaque O i Overprint options only valid when importing composite PostScript files IM Place External Q Strict overprint behavior Certln the Esko input module will honor the overprint parameter 100 according to the rules mentioned in the PostScript Language Reference in case of PostScript EPS AI import and PDF Reference Manual in case of PDF This option must be set when the user wants to process test files like the Altona test suite or other test suites which verify overprint behavior correctness This toggle controls how zero percentage inks are handled when reading composite files When Strict overprint behavior is switched on all zero percentage inks of a color are kept and correspondingly affect the overprint behavior When Never strict overprint behavior is selected all zero percentage inks are removed e Never strict overprint behavior all zero percentage inks are removed e Always strict overprint behavior Certln will honor the overprint parameter 100 according to the rules mentioned in the PostScript Language Reference in case of PostScript EPS Al import and PDF Reference Manual in case of PDF e Only strict overprint behavior for PDF Certln will honor the overprint parameter 100 according to the rules me
39. in Dim Artwork Color When you enable a Highlight option the objects are highlighted in the color you chose in the Color Picker Color This viewing mode shows a list of used colors Wiewx O OOOO Preview Color r j ial a a gt Miccwavera E cawan S B einstPanTONEinsi j EB eiss gPanTONE ms BLEZO i eins P PANTONE Ims i Visualisation of images is only correct using Ink Based View View Options Default ti Click the eye icons in front of the colors to show or hide them Click the eye button above the colors list to show or hide all colors Total Area Coverage The Total Area Coverage TAC is the sum of all separation densities at a certain point in your document TAC Limit The TAC Limit is the maximal Total Area Coverage that your document may contain This value depends on the press and the substrate your design will be printed on Your printer should provide you with the TAC Limit value to use Defining the TAC Limit The TAC limit is defined in the Press settings See Define Press Settings By default the TAC Limit is set to 270 Viewing areas over the TAC Limit When you switch to the Total Area Coverage preview the image in the preview pane will be dimmed and all areas where the sum of the densities is higher than the TAC limit specified in the current Press Setting will be displayed in 100 black i cut Layout ENERGY D
40. in the Inks dialog You can have any number of inks of any type in a document There are three groups of inks Process Inks PANTONE Inks and Designer Inks The way in which you add an ink depends on the ink that you want to add To add a Process ink 1 Click in the ink name field for the empty ink 2 Type the letter for the process ink you want to add Type C for Cyan M for Magenta Y for Yellow and K for Black 3 Press Enter To add a PANTONE ink 1 Enter the PANTONE ink number You cannot delete inks that are used in external references like Graphics However you can map an ink in an external reference to another ink in the job You can also choose not to print the ink Changing the order of the inks in a document The order of the inks in the document determines how an ink is displayed and the order in which the separations are printed For these reasons you may want the inks in a particular order To change the order of the inks 1 Click and drag the ink to a new location 2 Release the mouse button To set the order of the inks based on darkness 1 Make sure that the Inks window contains all the inks you want in your document 2 On the fly out menu click Sort Light to Dark or Sort Dark to Light The inks are reordered based on the option you choose Changing the screen parameters of an ink You can set the screening parameters for the inks in your document in the Inks dialog box These pa
41. kb PDF you will end up with an acceptable result but it is clear that high values will alter the PDF too much Keep in mind that this option will only modify resolved vector curves it will not straighten any other objects while exporting 9 1 2 Edit menu 182 The Edit menu contains following items Undo To cancel the last editing function or a series of editing functions you performed The editing functions are undone one editing function at a time starting from the most recent one The last modification you made is undone and the job appears as it was before you performed the editing function Continue to choose Undo to cancel other modifications that you made to the job Note The number of undos you can perform depends on the number of Undo Levels entered in Preferences Notice that remembering the previous actions consumes memory that cannot be used for your current job anymore If you are working with extremely complex jobs it may be necessary to enter a lower number of undo levels Redo To cancel the last undo or series of undos you performed Redo cancels one undo at a time starting from the most recent occurrence and displaying the job as it was before you performed an undo Continue to choose Redo to cancel other undos that you made to the job Note The number of redos you can perform depends on the number of Undo Levels entered in Preferences lf you change something to your job after an undo actio
42. layout using the Step and Repeat tools These tools are the subject of this section 7 3 1 Using Layers i cut Layout uses the concept of layers to build a file Layers can be used in Graphics as well as in sheets You can use layers to organize the objects in your document i cut Layout automatically creates some layers for you but you can edit these layers or add your own You can also create special layers known as grid and markup layers You can turn the display of layers on and off lock layers indicate that layer must not be printed and rearrange the order of layers You can use multiple layers to keep similar objects together For example you might want to put all your marks on one layer and all Graphics on another The Layer Browser helps you create and organize layers Objects in a Graphic can be placed on layers to make them easier to organize and edit Similarly objects in the sheet can be placed in different layers too You can have as many layers as you want You can also name layers to help you remember what objects are on them and to make it easier for someone else to pick up where you left off You can also rearrange the order of layers Types of layers i cut Layout supports three types of layers object layers grid layers and markup grid layers Object layers contain objects in the sheet Grid and markup grid layers contain grids and guides to help you position objects Adding an object layer Even though i cut Layout m
43. move it after the unit of measure 2 Type the calculation that you d like to make For example if the field currently contains 10 mm type 5 to add 5 mm to this value 3 Press Enter The new value for the field is calculated and displayed In the example above the new value will be 15 mm 10 mm 5 mm You can use these two features together too For instance if the smart edit field contains 10 mm you can add 2 inches to this value by typing 2 in The resulting value will be 60 8 mm 10 mm 50 8 mm 2 inches in millimeters 2 3 6 External Files 18 i cut Layout uses files as external references External files are linked to the actual files located on your disk This means that the high resolution data contained in many graphics files is never included in your sheet or Graphic files Examples of external files are graphics used in Graphics The use of external files has two advantages First because the real data of the external file is not included in the document i cut Layout s native sheet files are very small Second because i cut Layout refers to the external files on disk Graphics and sheets that use these files are always up to date Changes made to the external files are updated automatically i cut Layout 2 Note that whereas all graphics used in Graphics are external references the Graphic definitions themselves the link to graphics cut path mask station number trapping layer etc are stored
44. object with the selection box for it to be selected 215 EE Eskos came 216 Selecting all objects To select all objects in the document On the Edit menu click Select All Deselecting an object You can only deselect objects that are selected in red To deselect objects selected in green you must first change them to objects selected in red by pressing the INSERT key Caution The Insert key is an Esko shortcut If you are using DIP shortcuts or created your own shorcuts the key could be different For more information about shortcuts please refer to the chapter Shortcuts To deselect every object in the red selection 1 Click Select on the toolbar 2 Click anywhere in the document window outside the selected objects All objects selected in red become deselected To deselect a single object right click the object Tip There is a preference setting for reversing the selection of an object SHIFT select the object by dragging Transform Tool Use the Transform tool to interactively move scale or rotate a selected object You can also transform objects numerically using the Transform dialog box Some objects in i cut Layout cannot be transformed or can be transformed only partially The following table shows the objects that may be in your document and their transformation properties Graphics Geometry Marks Note Certain SmartMarks cannot be moved e g the grid mark Clic
45. one or more Graphics in the Graphics list and clicking the Information button The Graphic Settings dialog contains 4 tabs e General e Back e Trim Box and Margins e Inks Using the Next and Previous button you can switch to the next or previous Graphic in the Graphics list Clicking OK will accept all changes Clicking Cancel will close the dialog without applying any changes 5 1 1 General 38 i cut Layout AmericanCars 2 pdF q x Frauta General Back Trim Bos amp Margins Inks Type Fie Name E AmericanCars_2 pdi Browse Ordered fi Placed 0 Masimum Fill Scale t hoos o p Size ft 487 736 mm efons e 881 750mm Cut Fath MDiclinc Bleed 5 000mm CNEskobg_data_signup vOTO sample files AmercanLars_2 pdt Previous Hert The General tab of the Graphic settings contains e The Type either a File or an Empty Graphic see Working with Placeholders e The Name of the file and a browse button to select another file e The number Ordered The amount can be set as a fixed number or as Maximum Fill See Maximum Fill e The amount already placed and the path to the file on disk e The Vertical and Horizontal Scale or Size You can enter the desired resulting size or the desired scale factor of the graphics Changing the desired resulting size will also change the scale factor and vice versa lf the lock behind the input fields is enabled the scaling wil
46. opened ESKO came b Click the Add SmartMark button and select i cut Marks SmartMark Options i cut Marks Bar Code Inks Type Filed Circle Size j6 000mm se f0 000mm Around Nested Layout Where OnBoundingBox E Position Top amp Bottom Quantity 5 gt lt gt Marks c Set the options as desired d The i cut system can automatically retrieve the correct file if it has a bar code on it Select the Bar Code tab check Add bar code and set the options as desired Make sure to use Left as bar code position SmartMark Options i cut Marks Mark Bar Code Inks Add bar code Alignment Horizontal l Positions Jet Attach to Sheet Marrow Bar 0 500mm Ratio Bo y e Click Apply to add the i cut marks and the bar code to the SmartMarks set f Inthe Fly out menu of the SmartMarks dialog by clicking the triangle in the upper right corner select Save Set g Enter a name for the set e g i cut marks and click Save 10 i cut Layout You can see in the bottom bar that the newly created SmartMarks set is active so it will be used on any new layouts 6 Load the designs in the Graphics tab of the SmartNest dialog on the right side which loads designs lets you specify the quantity desired and searches for the optimal sheet usage a Click Add the first button on the toolbar in the Graphics dialog box Nea b Navi
47. save the current tiling as a Tiling Template See Working with a Tiling Template on page 56 e Create Tiles will finally create the tiles and bring you back to layout view The created tiles will appear as graphics in the graphic list and inherit the quantity setting of the original graphic The original graphic will be deselected for nesting General e The Grid Size is shown e By clicking Reset Grid you can restart from creating the Tiling Grid See Create Tiling Grid All changes made to the tiles will be lost e Include Overlaps allows to enable or disable the overlaps Overlaps are set using Set Up Overlaps and or by setting overlaps manually on the selected tiles e Using Set Up Overlaps you can generate Automatic Overlaps See Set Up Overlaps Automatic Overlaps can only be applied on a regular tile grid changing the size of specific tiles instead of changing the complete row or column merging and splitting tiles will make Automatic Overlaps impossible Note Using Automatic Overlaps overrules all overlaps created or modified earlier e The Opacity defines the opacity of the Tiling preview on top of the graphics and thus how dimmed the artwork is shown e You can set the amount of Tile Bleed to be used for the tiles Set Up Overlaps Set Up Overlaps allows to automatically generate overlaps on all tiles Set Up Overlaps can only be used on regular tile grids if the dimensions of individual tiles are changed or if tile
48. see further The concept of Placeholders is designed to allow you to assemble layouts before the final graphics become available cost estimating purposes In anormal workflow Placeholders will be replaced by the actual graphics before making sheets layouts The graphics used in a Graphic can be a Normalized PDF file an image file or an Esko GRS file Cut Paths in i cut Layout are usually created by extracting contours in a certain ink All the items that you include in a Graphic will be repeated on your layout Although Graphics can be created and manipulated from the Layout View you edit Graphics in the Graphic View The definition of a Graphic is embedded inside the layout file Graphic objects consist of e areference to a graphics In case of a Placeholder this will be a rectangle with a dummy color simply for viewing e acut path This is the shape on which the actual Graphics will be cut e a bleed mask This is a gross mask that cuts away all irrelevant graphics Most of the time the bleed mask is generated by spreading the die shape over a certain distance What is a Layout A Layout contains a sheet size and any number of Graphics The Graphics contained in a Layout may be multiple instances of the same Graphic single instances of different Graphics or some intermediate mix a combination Layout As Layouts can be recto verso i cut Layout can create the back of a Layout from the front for two sided printing When i cut L
49. select the native line types P1 P2 P3 When selecting ArtiosCad line types the conversion from MFG to ACM will include a number of optimizations and manipulations When using P1 P2 the cut lines are simply copied into the ACM file Presets Presets can be used if you want to store and reuse the settings you make To save a preset 1 Enter the settings folder file type settings you want to save 2 Click the Actions button and select Save Preset 3 Enter a name for the preset and click Save in the Presets dialog which can be opened by clicking Actions gt Manage Presets you can load a preset or delete an existing preset Report e Export XML report will generate an XML file describing which graphics are placed on which layout e Export JPEG thumbnail will generate an RGB JPEG image of each layout The resolution for the JPEG file can be defined 33 ESKO cme 4 Offcut sheets Offcut sheets allows to store and re use the remainders of sheets The empty areas will be cut off rectangular and stored The name of the offcut sheets will be printed on them so if the offcut sheet is used for another layout it is easy to find the specific offcut sheet in your stock 1 Create a SmartNest Layout See Creating a SmartNest Layout 2 Create Offcut Sheets from the empty areas See Creating Offcut Sheets 3 Reuse Offcut Sheets when selecting sheets in the Setup or SmartNest dialog See Using Offcut Sheets
50. selections for each image on the screen These settings will be saved to reuse them during your current session The settings are kept as long as the image for which they were programmed stays on the screen Repaint To refresh the thumbnail view If you moved the viewport rectangle in the thumbnail view and you click Repaint the thumbnail view is resized until it contains the complete viewport rectangle and the image in total view Use the Repaint plug to automatically repaint the thumbnail view each time your job changes Please refer to the Pan tool chapter for more information on how to use the tool Style The Style window allows you to set the parameters for the mark that you create You can choose whether your mark has a Fill a Stroke or both You can choose the colors of the fill and stroke as well as the line width for the stroke You can also set colors in Geometry Marks to overprint other objects Finally you can choose for the color to be Registration color which means that the color contains 100 of all inks in the document To set the Style of a Geometry Mark use the Style dialog box Style x Fill E Normal 100 0 Overprint M i 000mm il is e Normal as Oe M Gyverprint cefe ir mlm O Group EJ Normal 100 0 4 The Style dialog allows you to add a color for the fill and stroke and to apply some transparency effects to the Fill and Stroke attribute Additional stroke options can be set when the S
51. simply select it in the document window and delete it like you would any other object When you delete a SmartMark from the document window its definition is deleted automatically from the SmartMark list of Current Marks You can also delete a SmartMark from the SmartMarks window 1 In the SmartMarks window click the name of the mark that you want to delete 2 Choose Delete from the fly out menu Tip You can delete more than one mark from the Current Mark list by holding CTRL to select more than one name at a time 8 2 3 Editing a SmartMark After you have created a SmartMark you may want to edit it later There are two ways that you can edit an existing SmartMark First you can open the mark s options dialog box by double clicking the mark in the document window The mark options dialog box will appear Make any changes and click OK to update the mark in the document window You can also edit a SmartMark from the SmartMarks window 1 Select SmartMarks on the Production menu The SmartMarks window appears 2 In the SmartMarks window click the name of the mark that you want to edit and click Options in the fly out menu or just double clck it The mark options dialog box will appear 3 Edit the parameters and click OK You can also double click a mark name in the SmartMarks window or the mark object in the drawing window to open the option dialog box for that specific mark 8 2 4 Creating and sav
52. the bar code The height covers the height of the bars and the digits if any Although the height does not contain information it has to be sufficient to allow an efficient reading of the code Caution Do not change the height of the bar code before entering a Magnification value The height will change again according to the Magnification factor that you define Characters per unit Defines the number of characters that you want to print It is necessary to specify the number of characters per unit because the character width depends on the printing process and the surface on which the bar code is printed Ratio Defines the ratio between the narrowest bar which is used as reference unit and the other bars in the bar code Narrow bar Indicates the width of the smallest unit of the bar code Wide Bar Determines the width of the wide line within the symbol Gap Determines the distance between lines within the symbol and interacts with the ratio gap value 1 ratio narrow bar width 2 Output resolution Defines the resolution for the exposure of the bar code The unit is ppi If you unlock the chain the system will no longer take the Output resolution in account Add Characters By default the characters are added underneath the bar code when it is created If there is no need to add them uncheck the box Light Margin Indicator Check the box to have a greater than gt or less than lt character printed in the human rea
53. the plate color Cyrel Red Blue Green or Safran Yellow or a High Contrast Blue amp White to match the type of plate you are using Flexo Print This Viewer preview mode shows the effect of highlight dot gain on the image i cut Layout This effect is equivalent to a curve adjustment To determine this curve the Flexo Print Preview will use the First dot and the Dot gain in highlights settings from the Press Settings See Define Press Settings Going from light to dark e The Flexo Print Preview will display percentages below the First visible dot percentage as 0 e The First visible dot percentage will be shown using the First Dot Prints as percentage e Percentages above the First visible dot percentage will be shown darker e Towards the midtones this darkening effect will fade out until the Range value e Percentages above the Range value are displayed unchanged Registration Error The Registration Error Preview is a simulation of a design printed with registration errors of a specific press defined in the Press Settings see Define Press Settings It can be very helpful to see if trapping is applied sufficiently and correctly The Registration Error value is taken from the Press Setting you selected The separations are randomly shifted In fact all separations are moved exactly the distance of the Registration Error but all under a random angle If you want to see another random registration error simulation c
54. the sheet The top of the sheet becomes the bottom of the sheet on the back If one of the placed Graphics has a back side when finding layouts the back side will be generated as well See Finding Layouts When the back side of the sheet is created the position of the Graphics is mirrored for accurate front to back alignment The back side of the Graphics is automatically inserted to create the printing on the back side If you move a Graphic on the front side the back side will be updated automatically You can also use the Turn Front to Back and Tumble Front to Back commands on the Tools menu to create the back side of a sheet manually To create a back side from the front manually 1 On the Tools menu click Turn Front to Back or Tumble Front to Back 2 The back side of the sheet is automatically created i cut Layout s view changes to the back side of the sheet Managing Inks i cut Layout has several tools that help you manage the inks in your document You can use these tools to display the individual separations of the document or to add or modify inks Caution Note that it is impossible to edit or delete inks in Graphic View mode 7 5 1 Working with inks Use the Inks window to add and edit inks in a document You can add inks delete inks set the screen ruling angle and dot shape of the inks and set the order of the inks in your document 93 ESKO cue 94 Adding Inks You add and delete inks
55. the stroke width in the current units Click the arrow to adjust the transparency using a slider Turn overprint on or off by using the overprint checkbox Group Adjust the opacity click the arrow to adjust the transparency using a slider Transform Click Transform on the Window menu The Transform Window appears i cut Layout F 37 542 mm t f196 082mm g fo pjo x a 130 417 mm 260 834 mm oo 100 2 9 point selector Location Angle 9 point Selector Use 9 point Selector to see information about a particular point in the current selection The nine points that you can select are the four corners the midpoints between the four corners and the center The current point is highlighted with a black line around it in the window above the center point is the current point Location The Location fields show the vertical and horizontal location of the current point In the above window changing the values in these fields will place the center of the selection at a new location Size The Size fields show the height and width of the current selection Changing values in these fields will scale the object so that it should have the height and or width that you entered Angle The Angle field shows the angle of the current selection Scale The Scale fields show the vertical and horizontal scale of the current selection Transform Window Tips e Depending on the current selection some of the fields may be d
56. this is typically stored as an A3D file If you export as a Collada file you could use the workflow described in 5 3 But then you loose some powerful features of the ArtiosCAD file format such as Create Varnish Plate Distribute and back side We suggest a workflow that uses both Collada and ArtiosCAD files In ArtiosCAD e Create an ARD file for every part e Combine the parts with ArtiosCAD 3D features e Save the composition as a Collada file In PackEdge Organize your artwork in a different document for every part Place the corresponding ARD file in each document Double click a panel to display it in the document window Eh fa ai t a TE The Structural Design layer shows the ArtiosCAD drawing By default the Studio window shows just the one part Repeat this for the other documents 175 ESKO i I che ihih Aiai Fii FEINE E TEETEPEEL TANIEN weer i cut Layout i mai a os T a a emam aam are Pi ay mar e i eee ee STUDIO Scene pastabene display tray ard Orientation tal Ge To see the parts together in the Studio Window load the Collada file from ArtiosCAD as an alternative scene 176 i cut Layout pastabene display tray ard at pastabene display base ard Scen pastabox_Bleed ard PH Orientation AAE EA Remove The Studio window will show the 3D shape of the collada file with the artwork of the different documents Note
57. to export a three dimensional package to PDF and it can export snapshots of the three dimensional package to an image file About Structural Design files A structural design file should always contain 2D information and possibly even 3D information If the structural design file contains 3D information Studio Designer can show a folded 3D representation of the structural design file A structural design file 2D and 3D contains all the cut and crease lines for a specific type of package A structural design file may also contain folding angles that define how the package is to be folded into its final shape The structural design file does not contain the graphics only the structural lines To bring the structural design and the graphic design together a structural design file can be placed or opened Supported structural design file formats e ArtiosCAD or Studio Toolkit for Boxes ard files for boxes e Studio Toolkit bag files e Collada files with a printable part dae or zae files In case a Collada file is placed a check is performed to see if the Collada file has a printable part defined A printable part is an Esko extension to the Collada format Collada files with one or more printable parts can also be created in Studio Toolkit and ArtiosCAD You can also load a structural design file as an extra scene in the Studio window Each part of the scene can get its graphics from another illustrator document See Scenes and Mult
58. with the Interleaved with and With Step options It determines if the extra objects generated by activating the Interleaved with option are placed before or after the stepped instances of the mark object Ignore Darkest Ink is used in combination with With Step It determines whether or not the darkest ink should be excluded from the stepped instances of the mark object White underprint allows you to add white underprint to the mark Click the Setting button the White Underprint Settings dialog box pops up x Select Ink none ere 0 200 nm 0 200 mm 0 200 mm 0 200 mm OF Cancel Select Keep original inks if you want to use the original inks of the image when placing this mark Image inks that do not yet appear in the job s ink list will be added to that list Inks that do appear in the job s ink list but which have different ink settings will also be added to that list Select Map inks if you want the inks of the image mark to be mapped to the job s inks Keep ink names is almost the same as Keep original inks except that image inks that already appear in the job s ink list with the same name but with a different ruling angle or dotshape will be replaced by the corresponding ink from the current job Inks that do not yet appear in the job s ink list will be added Position The Position tab allows you to select the position of the mark by moving the red rectangle the mark in th
59. 12 Folding Carton WE 1 585 14 1 S85 15 HE Folding Carton Inch Single design parameters 1 SBS 16 1 SBS 16 HE Folding Carton Metric Single design parameters JE 1 58S 18 1 SBs 18 JE 1 55 20 1 SBS 20 JE 1 585 22 1 585 22 JE 1 585 24 I 565 24 BE 1 wcc 18 1 wCC 18 JE 1 wecc 20 I WwCC 20 JE 1 vvcc 22 wec 22 FE 1 wec 24 wec 24 a el ee Board Properties 5 Enter the dimensions for the box Using next and Previous you can set a number of other settings and options Click OK to continue 122 05 ARD Main DESIGNX1 ard lt Previous Reinit Reinit All Edit Reset OK Cancel 6 Specify the file name and location for the ARD file to be created and click OK The newly created box will appear as a Placeholder in the Graphics list using the CAD information as Cut path You can now treat this as a regular Placeholder add a graphic using Replace by Graphic File and create a layout to print and cut the box See also Working with Placeholders and Creating Layouts 59 ESKO cue 5 8 Export Graphic Export Graphic allows you to export a Graphic including all changes you made such as creating a Cut Path adding bleed Only Export to PDF is possible All normal PDF export options are available 60 i cut Layout 6 6 Working with Graphic files i cut Layout uses graphics the same way that a step and repeat machine does imported graphics are assumed to be
60. 9 E Flato Cut unregistered Technical 0 lt Click here to add an ir Default values when adding a new ink 9 J Finks 1 unused Ruling fizo Ipi Angle 45 deg Dotshape Ze 1 Ink Number This number which appears automatically in front of the Ink box when the ink is defined identifies the ink by its place in the inks table Tip lf you want to change the order of the inks in the table drag the number of the ink towards the number where you want to insert it Ink Patch Displays the ink When you define an ink by entering its name the Ink patch automatically displays the defined ink When you create new inks they are added immediately in the Color Palette of the Color Style box as a color swatch with 100 of that ink When you double click an empty ink box the PANTONE Book appears from which you can select inks j Allows you to add an ink You can give the name or the number of the ink F L Allows you to remove an ink 159 EE skos cme 160 Caution You cannot delete inks that are used in external references nor are you allowed to remove the i cut Layout Cut and i cut Layout Crease inks Ink Book Lists to which ink book the ink belongs Information on the Ink Book is automatically assigned by i cut Layout and is for your information only Ruling To define the screen ruling for the ink to obtain the appropriate printing quality The default value is 120 lines per inch For more specifi
61. Cross Contours x Dummy Colors Display Image Tip The Preview Mode buttons also appear in the Preview Selector toolbar that can be added to the work environment via Window gt Toolbars gt Preview Selector View Mode opens the View Mode submenu allowing to choose between Sheet view and Graphic view See Working in Graphic View Sheet La Graphic Side allows you to switch between the front and back side of the sheet Show Technical Inks allows you to view the Technical Inks in the job window Viewer opens the Viewer window See Viewer on page 142 Preview The Preview menu makes it possible to easily switch between the different preview modes 141 142 i cut Layout Cross Contours lt Dummy Colors B Display Image Fi High Cross Cross mode shows all external files as a box displaying the file name This mode displays your sheet very quickly but shows no detail Contours Contours mode shows all objects as outlines This mode is useful for aligning two contour edges precisely Dummy Colors This mode is particularly useful if complex layouts needs inspection When placing a Graphic a dummy color is assigned automatically This color can be modified from within the Graphic properties In case of real Graphics this representation color is used only for this visualization mode The Color picker in the Graphic properties dialog box also allows to assign a color to Placeholders When
62. Cut Path Preparation gt Optimize Cut Path allows you to adjust the cut path of the Graphic Select Smoothen to eliminate points in order to smoothen the contour Depending on the deviation you will loose some detail but it will facilitate and speed up the cutting process Optimize Cut Path Optimization Deviation Tip Fs Click the Contour Cleanup Tool and select the Move Points tool from the palette If the path is selected and you click Optimize you will immediately see that a certain number of points are being removed Select an Offset value to spread or choke the Cut Path over the specified Offset distance You can also define the shape of the corners 45 i cut Layout Optimize Cut Path Flatten Objects Select Milling Compensation to simulate the thickness of the milling head Specify the diameter of the milling head and indicate its position with respect to the cut path Optimize Cut Path Optimization Milling Compensation Milling Diameter 5 000 mm Position Milling Head Inside the Cut Path f Outside the Cut Path Tip Fi _ D Click the Contour Cleanup Tool and select the Change Start Point and Direction tool from the palette Changing the direction might be interesting for certain types of paper or cardboard To improve the cutting quality it could be decided to cut the outer contours in the opposite direction of the inner contours Importing a CAD design You
63. Find Layouts Now Nesting Progress fi Nesting layout NewLayout g7 Accept this Layout Searching for the lowest amount of waste Waste 47 5 Area 1 49 nf Click the Accept this Layout button to immediately skip further optimisation Stop During the search a dialog shows the progress indicator the current waste percentage and the area The Waste is the surface outside the cut paths in of the total surface and the area is the surface of the bounding box of all cut paths Note During the Search you can click the Accept this Layout button to accept the currently found solution and move on to the next layout or you can click the Stop button to stop searching completely However it can be easier and more predictable to let the search finish and remove or modify the layouts you want See Managing Layouts 29 ESKO cme i cut Layout will generate as much layouts as necessary to place all Graphics the required remaining number of times according to the settings you entered All layouts will have a name based on the Layout Name with a sequential number attached The resulting Layouts will be added to the list of layouts See Managing Layouts Note If the layout already contains Graphics either placed manually or from a previous search you can select them in green to glue them to their position so they will not be changed by any search 3 3 2 Managing Layouts SO Th
64. Fixed Length This combination is ideal in roll fed situations The value entered in the Repeat box is related to the length of your table Bar code SmartMark Options i cut Marks X Mark Bar Code Inks Iv Add bar code Use time stamp Alignment Horizontal l Positions Left amp Right f Attach to Sheet Offset t oo00mm e fom Narrow Bar 0 500mm A atio BS In the Barcode tab you can select Add bar code A bar code code 39 will be used in automatic workflows It will prevent the operator from taking the wrong file as the name of the cut file is encoded in the bar code which will be read by the i cut software Scanning the bar code on the substrate automatically opens the corresponding cut file Note The name of the CUT file will by default be the name that is indicated in the bar code If you specify a different name for the CUT file then the bar code will be adjusted before exporting This implies that the bar code that is included in the PDF file will always match the name of the generated CUT file Alignment allows you to position the bar code horizontally or vertically Position The bar code can be put left of sheet bottom left and or right of sheet top right Offset allows to define an offset for the position of the bar code Set the Narrow Bar and wide to narrow Ratio parameters The value entered here depends on the resolution of the digital press or proofer that is being used
65. Folder button and browse to it e Click the Settings button to set extra PDF options Note In the Settings you can choose to output as a multipage PDF This will result in one PDF file containing one page for every layout needed instead of one PDF for every layout This option is only available if all layouts have the same dimensions Export Cutting File e Select the File Type i Cut file HPGL file PDF file MFG file or ACM file e Set the File Name e Define in what folder the file must be saved either by entering the path or by clicking the Select Folder button and browse to it e Click the Settings button to set extra options See Cutting file Settings These settings are not available when exporting MFG or ACM files i cut Layout Depending on the selected cutting file type you can add information in the third column of the Inks list e If the Cutting File type is set to i Cut file or PDF file you can enter or change the name of the layer the ink will be placed in e If the Cutting File type is set to HPGL you can define the HPGL line type to be used e MFG is the native ArtiosCAD file type If the Cutting File type is set to MFG you can select the ArtiosCad line types If an ArtiosCAD file was imported for the cut shape the complete ARD file will be put in the MFG file e ACM is the native language of a Kongsberg table If the Cutting File type is set to ACM you can either select ArtiosCad line types or you can
66. Graphic will be scaled to match the Grid Size both vertically and horizontally This can result in non proportional scaling If the option is enabled an info icon is shown When moving the mouse over this icon will show the resulting scaling When clicking OK the Tiling dialog will open and you can see a preview of the tiling See Setting up the Tiling on page 52 5 5 2 Setting up the Tiling 52 The Tiling dialog allows to change the tiling and tiling settings while showing a preview of the tiles over a dimmed preview of the graphic x z General Grid Size EH 5000 000 mm Reset Grid H 5000 000 mm M Include Overlaps Set Up Overlaps Opacity 75 0 ka Tile Bleed 500 000 mm F Customize Tiling To select click a row a column a tile line or a tile Hold down Alt to select a tile side Hold down Ctrl to select multiple items Report MW Create Report Paper Size as Report Name In Folder Select Folder Tile Mark Set lt none gt Save Tiling Settings oe Create Tiles i cut Layout e The General part contains general settings changing all tiles See General on page 53 e The Customize Tiling part allows to change one or more tilings or tile lines See Customize tiling on page 54 e The Report part allows to generate a report on the tiling See Tiling Report on page 56 e You can define the Tile Mark Set to be used for the newly created tiles e Save Tiling Settings allows to
67. MAC for instance 19 Re eskos cme 6 4 Importing a PDF file PDF files can be placed without normalisation or imported to Normalized PDF depending on the PLace PDF files without Normalisation option in Edit gt Preferences gt Files The default use in i cut Layout is without normalisation The Options window for importing a PDF file contains the same features as those for PostScript There are two differences between PostScript and PDF import e On the Pages tab a password field is available If the PDF file is password protected you must enter the password so that Esko Plato is able to convert the PDF file e Flatten PDF transparencies and layersCheck the box to import PDF files as in Scope 3 and lower All transparencies and layers will be flattened If not checked a normalized PDF file will be created that contains all typical PDF features like transparencies and layers PDF Import Flatten PDF transparencies and layers Pages Color Management Inks Overprint Images Page Size Other Output Page range All Pages C Range Example 1 5 7 9 11 F Solit Up 4 MultiPage File Maximum Pages per File lo First Pagenumber in Output f Merge Tiled CT Files to one CT Merge separated file to composite page Optimize merged file Password See mporting a PostScript file for complete descriptions of the import options 6 4 1 Importing multipage PDF files When importing multipage file
68. OOUOOUO LJ ESRB Seine ETS Eel al L OHOOOUOUOUOO ETS DS EIEIAE wj i m a CT a 7634191 1422195 100115 762191 1422195 100115 762191 1422195 1004115 Tip drag a color swatch From the Colors palette a colc al to the color sample at the top right Se i nsari ee y Wallpaper T Random CMYK color Choosing Random CMYK color will result in a random CMYK color 103 ES eskos came x Define Color by Random CMYK Color Random based or When entering a Random based on value either manually or using SmartNames the random CMYK color will be based on this value Using the same value again will result in the same random color You can use this e g to have files from the same folder to use the same random color for the Text on Cut Path SmartMark 8 2 9 Setting the location of a SmartMark 104 You specify the location for most SmartMarks using a 9 point selector similar to the one that is used in the Transform dialog box Here is an example of the Standard Strip mark Strip Ink Position Attach to Borders Object ame Offset 0 000 O z HoE joo E 8 Orientation Bj aj aK ra 0 000 In the left half of the dialog box you set the location for the mark The red selector represents the reference point on the mark the blue selector represents the reference point in the job The reference point in the job is selected by position In Esko Plato a SmartMark can be attached to asheet a shee
69. Page is activated Note When errors occur when a PostScript file is imported e g a font is not found the Optimize Merged PostScript File will not be performed Password You can enter a password for protected PDF files 6 3 2 Color Management 63 Re eskos came 64 PostScript Import l xj Pages Color Management Inks Overprint Images Page Size Other Output RGE AGB Method Source to destination profile Destination Color Space Color Space CME k Destination Frofile crom_offs Source profile calibrator Rendering Intent Absolute background Objects With AGB Profile Tags Ignore tag Set Document Profile Never The document will be untagged Spot Colors ChE and Gray P amp H TONE Inks Keep all Objects With Profile Tags Method Use destination profile CMYK Ignore tag preserve percentages Designer Inks Keep all Gray Ignore tag preserve percentages IM Place External Customized Settings Destination Color Space Here you define what color space the opened imported document will have Color Space e CMYK e Grayscale Destination Profile Choose a color profile from the drop down list Currently only CMYK and Grayscale profiles are supported you can choose between standard ICC profiles and Esko Kaleidoscope profiles The Use PDF Output intent if available toggle in some PDF files the PDF Output intent is defined
70. Password to connect to Automation Engine Note If you are connected to an Automation Engine a green notification will be shown 139 EE skos cme 140 Data Resources The common Data Resources used by the application are Color Engine Database Marks Fonts Custom and DGC By default these Data Resources are taken from the Automation Engine server If you are not connected to an Automation Engine you can use the Data Resources installed with i cut Layout on your local machine However it is possible for 2 or more stand alone applications without an Automation Engine server to share the same data resources This requires that the Data Resources are shared on a remote computer This can be used to install the Common Data Components on one computer and use these from every computer running i cut Layout Tje Common Data Components kit is available as a separate installer on the i cut Soite DVD Installing this kit will give you an extensive list of available marks Note Changing the Data Resource settings requires a restart of the application Licenses tab The License tab shows the active licenses in the application You can disable and enable licenses in the list General Defaults View Color Editing Files Shortcuts Server amp Resources Licenses Offcuts Select the licenses you want to enable License Name Description ji Structural Design af Import CAD run ArtiosCAD standards 30 viewer W Graphics
71. Preparation wf Prepare graphics For cutting W True shape nesting af Irregular shape nesting and tiling This list shows all licenses Although you can select them all some licenses may not be available since two conditions should be met 1 The license is purchased 2 Afloating license is available i Restart the application to make these changes effective Offcuts tab In the Offcuts tab you can define the Minimum Width or Height for an Offcut Sheet the Safety Margin and the Font Weight and Size for the name of the Offcut Sheet to be printed on the Offcut Sheet See Offcut Preferences 9 1 3 View menu i cut Layout The View menu gives access to commands that determine how the imposition job is previewed The View menu contains following items Zoom In To zoom in by a factor of 2 on the displayed job in the active window Zoom Out To zoom out by a factor of 2 on the displayed size of the job in the active window Zoom to Selection This function allows you to automatically zoom in on the selected area in your job Total View To display the entire job including objects outside the sheet after you have used any of the other View options Previous View To display the previous view of the active window after you have used any of the other View options Repaint To repaint the active window to remove stray pixels or to finish painting a large file on screen Preview opens the Preview menu
72. Process SWOP PANTONE inks will be converted to process inks according to a fixed conversion table provided by PANTONE The result is independent of the selected Destination Profile This assumes the American SWOP print conditions Designer Inks e Keep All No Designer inks will be converted to process inks e Convert All All Designer inks will be converted to process inks e Keep list All Designer inks will be converted except those listed in the Inks tab RGB RGB will always be converted to process inks during import RGB Method Select one from the drop down list e Source to destination profile the user needs to specify both the Source Profile RGB and the Destination Profile CMYK or Grayscale e With Link profile the user specifies a Kaleidoscope Device Link Profile this Link Profile implicitely determines the Source and Destination profiles Source Profile Link Profile Select one from the drop down list 65 Re eskos cme Objects with RGB Profile tags The RGB objects in a PostScript or PDF file may be tagged with a Color Profile e Convert using the RGB Profile tags The user may choose to use that Color Profile as a Source Profile overruling the Source Link Profile selected above Tip In strictly controlled workflows the embedded tags are probably accurate so this option may be preferable e Ignore tags the embedded Color Profile will be ignored the Source Link Profile defined above will be used duri
73. RIN Note You can press the D key to activate the Densitometer Tool and measure the actual TAC amount in a specific area see Measure Ink Densities To quickly see the maximum TAC in your document use the TAC Limit slider Move the slider to the right to use a TAC Limit value higher than that used by your current Press Setting The more you move the slider to the right the less pixels will typically be over the TAC Limit Flexo Plate If you change the Viewer Preview mode to Flexo Plate a single separation by default the first in the list will be shown as a simulated flexo plate Note In this Preview mode only one separation can be viewed at a time Note Viewer uses the same technology as the Esko Flexo Tools for Photoshop 149 150 i cut Layout ENERGY RINK F First Visible Dot The Flexo Plate preview will use the First Visible Dot percentage from the press settings see Define Press Settings Pixels with a percentage lower than the First Visible Dot percentage will be shown as areas without dots Pixels with a percentage equal or higher than the First Visible Dot percentage will be shown as areas with dots Plate Color The Flexo Plate preview predicts how clean your flexo plates will be Especially in very light or very dark areas you could end up with isolated dots or holes on the flexo plate and those areas are difficult to hold on the plate or the substrate You can choose
74. SKO6 EET panels of such a composed face are spread across the document They can even have a different orientation So for composed faces it is very difficult to create graphics that run continuous from one panel into the other Studio Designer can help you in this process with a feature called Distribute Note You can use Distribute on bag and ard files but not on Collada files Composed Faces This is an example of a box with composed faces This is an example of a bag 7 He a2 N A vf A Ne AS 180 i cut Layout Viewing the Composed Face Distribute If you select Show Face Outlines in the Studio fly out menu and you click one panel that is part of a composed face ghost outlines will be drawn of the other panels of that face These ghost outlines can give you a good impression of the size and shape of the composed face If you draw some art within the boundaries of such a composed face it will only appear on one panel since the other panels are actually somewhere else in the Illustrator document However with Distribute you can create copies of the art over several panels that are perfectly aligned to make it look continuous on the folded composed face This is how the folded package will look without applying Distribute 181 EE eskos cme Distribute is available from Studio s fly out menu First you need to select art in the document
75. This means that such a file will need pre processing when further operations are applied expose to FlexRIP Automation Engine operations during pre processing a normalization on the fly will happen As such this workflow is only advisable when working in a standalone PDF environment placing PDF files exporting to PDF When switching to a mode where the real data is needed for example switching to extended preview applying trapping a normalisation on the fly is done Check Job Parameters It is possible to define Job Parameters on the BackStage server Job Parameters are settings type of bar code inks certain RIP parameters that are predefined for a BackStage Job The Check Job Parameters options allows you to check your files for inconsistencies and to correct them if necessary when opening or saving a document Shortcuts tab There are 2 sets of shortcuts Esko shortcuts and DIP applications shortcuts You can switch between both sets by selecting the appropriate set from the Shortcut Key drop down list General Defaults View Calor Editing Files Shortcuts Server amp Resources Licenses Offcuts Category Other Shortcuts oF Esko Commands Select transrtim tool Toggle current and selection tool Reset All You can however modify whichever set of shortcuts to fit your personal needs i cut Layout 1 Select the right set of shortcuts if it is not yet selected 2
76. You can manage the list of sheets e g to remove lost sheets or to add Offcut Sheets manually In the Preferences there are some specific settings for Offcut Sheets 4 1 Creating Offcut Sheets 34 After generating layouts layouts that contain an unused area big enough to create Offcut Sheets will show the Offcut Sheets button 0 See Managing Layouts Creating Offcut Sheets is done by clicking the recycle icon in the Layouts tab When the Create Offcut Areas dialog is open it monitors the bounding box of all Graphics and looks for free areas around this box which can be saved as Offcut Sheets If there are multiple free areas see example below you can select how the waste area should be divided into multiple rectangular offcut sheets Create Offcut Areas Proposal 4 a B Area 1 Area 2 Click the best proposal and select the offcut areas you want to create IY Offcut Area 1 1200 04 876 0 mm Store as ttc IY Offcut Area 2 930 1 316 9 mm Store as Offcut 1 The offcut references will be stored centrally when You accept the final layout in the Smartest window Please select the substrate that will be used Substrate Forest amp gt O Create Offcut Areas 1 Select if necessary how to divide the empty area i cut Layout 2 Define what Offcut Areas to be saved as Offcut Sheets and enter aname The name of the offcut sheet will be printed in the free area and cutting lines will be gener
77. _1 pdf T AmericanCars_2 pdf l AmericanCars _3 pdf 2 AmericanCars_ 4 pdf rA mericanCars_5 pdf Deskto F My Documents Pr L T My Computer Arnericanclars_6 odF T hiy Network File name AmericanCars_6 pdi Files of type PDF File Cancel Profiles defaults Setup File info Size 73 680 bytes Date 09 09 24 Time 10 10 54 i This is a non normalized POF file 63 ESKO cae 3 Select the type of file that you would like to assign from the Files of type list Tip It is possible to make a page selection The default is to select page 1 of a PDF file as well for the front as for the back side When creating the back side i cut Layout will automatically select the next page of the PDF file 4 Select the Graphic file that you want to place 5 Click Open You can also add a graphic manually by clicking and dragging a graphic from the Graphics list onto the canvas and then use the transform align tools 2 Replacing a Graphic 84 You may want to replace certain Graphics on your sheet with a different Graphic For example you might want to replace Graphics in a sheet layout that you did earlier with a new version Or you may want to replace specific Graphics to create a combination layout To replace a Graphic 1 Select the Graphic s to be replaced 2 On the Preparation menu click Replace by Click Replace Graphic to browse to an already existing Graph
78. a mask for the graphic The mask is based on the Graphic die You can add a bleed amount to the mask If the cut path in your Graphic includes panels you can also specify which panels to include in the mask to create non printing areas on the graphic Masks created with the Draw Bleed Mask tool are applied to the graphic only other objects like marks are not masked by the Draw Bleed Mask tool The Draw Bleed Mask tool includes an option window Create Bleed Ma sk Bleed j1 000 mm The option window allows you to specify the Bleed amount that you would like on the mask The value that you enter is the amount of bleed outside the die The option window also includes an Undo button You use the Undo button to undo any panel selections that you have made When you use the Draw Bleed Mask tool the mask is displayed in a transparent color over the entire Graphic The color of the mask is the same as the color used for the cut path lines By default the cut path lines in i cut Layout are red so the mask usually appears as a transparent red that simulates RubyLith masking material i cut Layout 10 0 0 ALPHA File Edit Yiew Arrange Graphic Inks Tools Production Window Trapping Help Doe E ex a owl View a side TY al Previews DIT BME fe SuperMarkt pdf a h H Create Bleed Mask X Bleed 5 0000 mm E OE peN E nu R e The transparent red area indicates the part of the Graphic that will
79. a specific height and or width for an object 1 Select the object 2 Type the height and or width for the object in the Size fields 3 Press Enter to make the change The selected object is scaled to the size that you entered for the height and or width To rotate an object by a certain angle 1 Select the object 2 Type an angle for the object in the Angle field 3 Press Enter to make the change The selected object is rotated to the angle that you entered By default rotations of objects occur around the center of the object If you want the object to rotate around a different point you need to move the point of origin See Moving the point of origin To scale an object as a percentage of current size 1 Select the object 2 Type a percentage in the vertical and or horizontal Scale fields 3 Press Enter to make the change The selected object is scaled to the percentage s that you entered into the Scale fields You can scale an object proportionally by entering the same percentage in both fields You can scale an object non proportionally by entering a different value in the each field 7 3 4 Using the Align Window go You use the Align window to align objects to the center of the sheet or to a single other object Two of the functions of the Align window align objects to the center of the sheet The other functions of the Align window align objects to one another Aligning objects to one another uses both red s
80. ack Hame A oo OA A t More Actions 0 x gt 652084 71524 ois genvmd1z2 10 Maske up to date Mim The display area is where you do your work You can think of it as a blank printing sheet on which you are assembling your layout The white area is the sheet The size and position of these are defined when you create a new layout File amp Edit offers you the standard save and edit functionality View Selector Side indicator tells you which side of the sheet you are working on front or back and allows to switch from front to back and vice versa The Preview Selector indicates the selected preview See Preview Zoom indicates the zoom factor The Graphics tab allows you to add Graphics and adjust the settings for the individual Graphics Tip Double click a Graphic to open it in Graphic View The Layout tab allows to search for SmartNest layouts See Finding Layouts The Toolbar contains the interactive tools Some tools are only available in 1 view Graphic view or Sheet View See Tools i cut Layout 10 The SmartMarks and Quick Masks indicators show the currently selected SmartMarks set and the state of the Quick Masks 11 Current Orientation Current Unit the orientation and unit can be changed in the Defaults tab of the Preferences dialog box Orientation units and server name together make up the Status Bar Note The menu bar contains comma
81. ackward 2 On the Arrange menu click Backward To move an object to the bottom of all other objects on the current layer 1 Select the object s that you want in the back 2 On the Arrange menu click To Back Remember that these commands move objects forward and backward in a layer If you use these commands to bring an object to the front and there still may be objects in front of it the front objects are located in a different layer 7 3 3 Using the Transform Window You can transform objects numerically with the Transform window To transform object interactively use the Transform tool The Transform window provides two features First the Transform window provides you with information about the currently selected object This information includes the location size rotation and scaling of the selected object Secondly the Transform window allows you to numerically transform an object by changing this information You numerically transform objects by selecting them choosing a current point if necessary and entering specific values in the Transform window To move an object to a specific location 89 ESKO came 1 Select the object 2 Inthe Transform window select the current point that you want to locate 3 Type a new location into the Location fields 4 Press Enter to make the change The current point of the selected object is moved to the vertical and horizontal location that you entered To enter
82. akes some layers automatically you will want to create your own layers You can create your own layers and name them To create a new object layer 1 Open the Layer Browser by clicking Layer Browser on the Window menu 2 Click the Add Layer button L A new layer appears The new layer is selected and becomes the active layer 85 ESKO cum S6 Deleting layers You may want to delete a previously created layer When you delete a layer the layer and all objects in that layer are deleted You can delete any layer with the Delete Layer button To delete a layer 1 Open the Layer Browser by clicking Layer Browser on the Window menu 2 Select the layer you want to delete 3 Click the Delete Layer button The selected layer is deleted You cannot delete the last object layer in a document Changing the name cf a layer You can change the name of layers to make their contents easy to remember To change the name of a layer 1 Select the layer that you want to change 2 Click the name of the layer The name becomes an edit field 3 Type in the name for the new layer 4 Press Enter on the keyboard to save the new name Changing the order of layers One of the nice things about using layers is that it makes it easy to move groups of objects in front of or behind others You can change the order of the layers whenever you like and as often as you like So you can move objects on top of other temporarily and th
83. an center the nested graphics on the sheet either horizontally vertically or in both directions Note The After nesting center graphics on sheet option will have no effect on a layout if one or more offcut sheets can be generated This depends on the setting of the Offcut preferences See Offcut sheets on page 34 Minimum Layouts Minimum Layouts reduces the amount of different layouts to a minimum This can especially when dealing with larger volumes reduce the setup time In the Layouts list you can see that when using Minimum Layouts instead of Minimal Waste the list of different Layouts will be shorter while the number of repeats for the layouts will be higher 2 3 ESKO came Zo r Find Nested Layouts Nesting Type Minimum Layouts Search Time Fat Respect the Graphics Order Fill Start Point Top Let gt Frimary Fill E vetica Gutter 5 000 mm Rotation Allow any Angle After nesting center graphics on sheet Horizontally T Layout N ame NewLayout Find Layouts Howl Search Time gives an indication of the accuracy by which i cut Layout will search for the best result The faster the search the less accurate the result can be You can define the Fill Start Point Primary Fill direction Gutter width and allowed Rotation By enabling the option you can center the nested graphics on the sheet either horizontally vertically or in both directions Note The
84. and you need to select the corresponding panel in the Studio Window The selected art is supposed to be positioned correctly on the selected panel If you choose Distribute copies will be made of the selected art for the other panels of the same composed face In the Studio Window which is automatically refreshed after a Distribute you can see how the graphics are running seamless from one panel into another Normally distribute will make a copy of the selected objects for every panel in the composed face unless there is no overlap If you do not need all these copies you can simply delete the ones you do not need This is how the folded package will look when having applied Distribute Making Clipping Masks It is very likely that one or more of the copies lay partially outside of the panel they were created for Sometimes this is a desired effect having the graphics run continuously over a folding line Sometimes this is not a desired effect and you will have to create a clipping mask to contain the copy within its panel 28 654 Working With Distributed Art You can update the copied distributed art for example after you have edited the original art or you can undistribute and expand distributed art if you want to delete the copies 182 i cut Layout Update Copies After a distribute you will have the same art appearing several times in your document If you change one of them the ot
85. ange the horizontal size and vice versa If you disable the lock you can set different scaling factors for vertical and horizontal scaling Clicking Reset will revert the settings back to 100 scaling and the lock enabled You can also enter a scale factor in the Station settings See General on page 38 3 3 Creating Layouts In the Layouts tab of the SmartNest window you can create all the layouts you need The Layouts tab consists of 3 parts 1 The Ordered graphics which is similar to the Graphics tab see Adding Graphics For every Graphic you can see the amount placed on the currently selected layout and the total amount remaining ordered Graphics Layouts z Ordered Graphics ael AmencanCars_6 pdf OAT ee AmericanCars_1 pdf OAL a o on i a ui i 0 i ou ae Amencanlars_3 pdt OAL pr AmercanCars_4 pdf OAT _ 8 2 The Find Nested Layouts section containing all settings for searching the optimal Layouts See Finding Layouts 25 ESKO came Find Nested Layouts Nesting Type Minimalwaste Search Time Fat sisi Respect the Graphic s Order Fill Start Point TI Top Let Primary Fill T Vertical Gutter 5 000 rm Rotations Allow any Angle After nesting center graphics on sheet Horizontally ka Layout Hame NewLayout 1 Find Layouts Mou 3 The Layouts section showing all the layouts created so far See Managing Layouts Layout
86. appears Grid Layer 1 x Step 0 000 Offset 0 000 0 000 0 000 3 Enter the spacing for the grid in the vertical and horizontal step fields For a square grid enter the same number in each step field You do not have to enter the same number in both fields entering different numbers creates a rectangular grid 4 Enter the start position of the grid in the offset fields The default start position of the grid is at the current origin However you can enter a different start position by entering values other than 0 5 Click the close box on the Grid dialog box The grid layer is added to the Layer Browser The grid appears in the document window as grey lines on the sheet Depending on the grid size and your current zoom level it may be hard to see the grid Like other layers you can change the order of grid layers in the Layer Browser If you want to work with the grid layer behind all your objects move the grid layer to the back If you want your grid layer to appear on top of all objects move it to the top You can also name a grid layer If you want to work with multiple grid layers it is a good idea to name them so that you can easily identify each one Using a markup grid layer A markup grid layer is a layer with guides that you can place wherever you want The guides can be placed numerically or interactively The guides on markup grid layers are displayed in blue If you place a guide interactively i
87. are T wm oe e View Current version only e View Reference version only e View Both documents on top of each other Additional options e View Both in their original colors e View Both Show difference the differences will be shown in the Added and Substracted highlight colors e View Both highlight difference same as above but the identical parts are dimmed e View Both only difference same as above but the identical parts are hidden 159 EE eskos came e Change Added Highlight Color Change Substracted Highlight Color and Change Both Highlight Color to change the colors in which differences are shown e Reset Difference Highlight Colors to reset the default colors e Channel Matching to match corresponding channels inks for the two documents e View Both side by side shows both versions next to each other You can choose between e Automatic tiling e Horizontal tiling e Vertical tiling e View both mirror reference shows the current document on top of the mirrored reference document Alignment Comparing files with different sizes may seem like a challenge as they are not aligned in the Viewer Compare window but it provides some tools that make it very easy Alignment faa sl offset x 0 0 0 0 mm Som oO e Alignment e on one of 9 corner center points e Align From Ruler see Align from Ruler e Auto Align From Ruler see Auto Align from Ruler e Auto Align see Auto Align e Auto Align see
88. artNest dialog 22 2o i cut Layout AmericanCars _4 pdf Scale 100 0 Cut Fath Trim Box Bleed BackName AmencanCars_ pdt Ordered 1 Scale 100 0 Cut Path Trim Box Bleed BackName YOY D DY L s t More Actions O x Use the Add Graphic button to select one or more files to be added as Graphics to the Graphics List See also Working with Graphic files Use the Add Placeholder to add a Placeholder See also Working with Placeholders Use the Add Box to create a box and add it as a Placeholder See also Add Box The Graphics list shows all Graphics including a preview and some key information In the Graphics list you can Double click a Graphic to open the Graphic in Graphic View See also Working with Graphics Change the key settings directly in the Graphics list such as the number ordered the scaling the Cut Path the Bleed Select one or more Graphics for further actions see below If multiple Graphics are selected you can change the settings or apply the actions on all selected Graphics at once Click and drag Graphics to change the order in the list ZO ESKO cme 5 The Information button opens the Graphic settings dialog for the selected Graphic If multiple Graphics are selected the Graphic Settings dialog will be reduced showing only the settings that can be modified for all selected Graphics See Graphic Settings 6 Use the Delete button to delete all selec
89. ask to the targeted object s When the green selection contains more than one object a group with all individual objects selected is considered as one object the objects of the green selection will be grouped before to be applied as an opacity mask Opacity Gradient Fill Release Opacity Mask aj E Opacity Mask The Clip checkbox makes an opacity mask double as a clipping mask which caused the masked objects to be invisible outside the boundaries of the masking object The Invert Mask checkbox reverse the luminosity values of the masking object which reverse the opacity of the masked object For example areas that are 15 transparent become 85 transparent after inversion By using the Transform Opacity Gradient tool you are able to transform the mask object The mask object can be moved to another position relative of the masked object scaled and transformed Press a tool from the toolbar dialog to stop modifying the Opacity Mask transformation or press the spacebar to make the selection tool active Release the Opacity Mask from an object by selecting the object mask object into the red selection and clicking on the Release Opacity Mask button in the Opacity Gradient dialog The Opacity Mask object will be put into the green selection i cut Layout 197 Edit the Opacity Mask by first releasing the Opacity Mask from the masked object After you have modified the masked object you have to recreate the Opacity Mask by clic
90. ate This situation occurs when masks are generated via Quick Adjust As long as no Graphics are added or moved this status will not change i Masks up to date Ly 366 237 527 315 Mim oo JS 2 Masks please adjust In case Graphics were added or moved the masks are possibly no longer up to date WEAN HME a uick Masks please adjust D 356 237 b27 315 Mim To bring the masks up to date go to the Adjust Masks dialog box by clicking the icon or the underlined text in the status bar GD Masks please adjust Front or by selecting Adjust Masks on the Tools menu Remarks e Masks should be adjusted on both sides of the sheet Only the status of the mask on the current sheet side is shown e When the masks are not up to date and a user wants to save his work a warning will be displayed 50 i cut Layout 5 Masks are not up to date P Saving the plate will split overlapping masks between the dies Adjust and Save Cancel 9 5 Tiling Graphics Follow the steps below to tile a Graphic Open the graphics that you want to tile as a Graphic in i cut Layout In Graphic View choose Tools gt Tiling In the Create Tiling Grid dialog define the basic grid to start from See Create Tiling Grid With the Tiling dialog open you can see a preview of the tiling You can make general changes for all tiles or you can modify individual rows columns or tiles See Setting
91. ated on the borders of the offcut area taking into account the margins 3 Define the substrate 4 Click Create Offcut Areas Extra cutting lines will be generated and an Offcut Sheet will be added to the Offcut sheet database Undoing or manually removing the offcut lines will remove the offcut sheet from the database 4 2 Using Offcut Sheets Offcut Sheets can be selected from the Sheets dropdown when creating a new sheet or changing the Document settings See Document Setup Document Set up x Document Hame Juntitled Sheet Preset Custom Plate Presets HEWES itil suc sn tet econ eet em are sek an Substrate Bibond 1 00 x 1 00 Dibond 2 00 x 1 00 Sheet Height Forex 1 00 1 00 Forex 2 00 x 1 00 Sheet width Top Margin Bottom MM argirr You can simply select an offcut sheet by name or you can select Find Offcut to open the Offcut Sheet Finder Offcut Plate Finder l X Find offcuts that match W Substrate Forex I Minimum width fi 00 000 mm M Masimum Width 3000 OOO mm M Minimum Height fi 00 000 mm Maximum Height 2000 000 mm Allow rotation Search Results Fores 1791 92 1908 9 920 0 mm Fores Fores 240x58 2400 0 579 9 mm Fores Select 35 ESKO cme The Offcut Sheet Finder allows to search for Offcut Sheets based on Substrate and Minimum or Maximum Width or Height 4 3 Managing Offcut Sheets In the Sheet Presets dialog an Offcuts tab allows to manage a
92. aths so that the destination platform understands e g My work POr oc rpe Jol If you were to go from Macintosh to NT the path translation could look like this I Path Translation x From platform From path To path Mac mavork postscript job workipostecriptyok Cancel You can do the same for files File Translation 1 Re eskos came aE file Translation X MacintoshHE tolder1 filet file Vzerverizharelzubfolder OK cancel 6 3 6 Page Size 2 PostScript Import Ea Pages Color Management Inks Overprint Images Page Size Other Output Page Size PSPageSize gt Offset w ooo mm Vertical size io Af x H ooo 4 mm gt Horizontal size i Af Scale po g Reader s Spread no ss ho 4 Rotate bpo TAN IM Place External al Page Size The default page size is PS Page Size PS Page Size is the page size found in the selected PostScript file for import The drop down list displays all possible options Custom A5 Reader s Spread To determine how the PostScript file which has reader s spread format must be opened e Single Page Forces the reader s spread in the PostScript file into single page output e Double Page Forces PS File into reader s spread format When the PostScript file contains no reader s spread info the single pages will be set as double pages Offset The original offset is bottom left Specifying a positive vertica
93. ave the current settings so that they can be used later You can also save the settings as your own default This feature is very useful for those file types that have many options that you modify each time you import a graphic of a particular file type 6 2 Replacing a graphic There are two ways to replace a graphic 1 You can use Replace by Graphics File in Graphic View to discard an existing graphic and put a different one in your Graphic 2 You can use the Graphic Settings dialog box to replace the graphics Replace by Graphics File will delete the current graphic and place a new graphic in the Graphic The new graphic is placed based on the information of the current graphic in the Graphic which implies that the new graphic will have the same position and rotation as the graphic that it replaces 61 Re eskos came The center of the graphic is aligned with the center of the current die If this position is not correct you can move or rotate the graphic with the Transform and Align tools Tip This feature is useful for changes that require a new graphic while all the other parts of the Graphic need to remain exactly the same 6 3 Importing a Postscript file You can import PostScript files and use them as a graphic in your Graphic PostScript files are converted to PDF files Composite and separated PostScript files can both be imported The Options window for importing PostScript and PDF contain the same fea
94. aw Tiling Tiles will be created from the selected objects red Tile Bleed 2 000 mm Milling Compensation Milling Diameter 5 000 mm Create Tiles 5 Add Box i cut Layout contains the functionality to create a box based on ArtiosCAD standards This can be useful for example to create a box to pack up your printed and cut out products for shipping Note The Add Box functionality is only available if the CADX Plugin is installed on your system 1 Open anew document See Document Setup 2 a Click the Add Box button 3 in the Standards Catalog select the type of of box you want to create and click OK Standards Catalog Corrugated Description RT Top Tuck on 2nd E Lal Display Standards El k Folding carton 122 05 ARD H I 1 ArtiosCAD Folding carton H E A Sleeves A B Friction tuck tops 9 L Friction tuck bottom a gl RT Top Tuck on 4th Be ST Top Tuck on 2nd Bl STTopTuckon 4th e 2 Unituck slit lock bottom H E 3 Standard slit lock botto 4 Houghland bottom W E 5 Full flap auto bottom H E 6 Inturn auto bottom J C Unituck slit lock top D Standard slit lock top H E E Partial full overlap seal enc F Trays J H E 2 ECMA H E 3 Designer edition lt iiil 58 i cut Layout 4 Select the units to be used either Inch or Metric centimeter Single Design Settings Parameter Set Folding Carton 9 Corrugated JE 585 12 1 SBS
95. ayout creates the back side of the Layout the position of the Graphics is mirrored for accurate front to back alignment The back side of the Graphics is automatically inserted to create the printing on the back side i cut Layout i cut Layout 2 maintains a link between the front and back side of a Layout moving Graphics on the front side will move the corresponding Graphics on the back side accordingly 2 3 2 View modes i cut Layout has two view modes e The Sheet View shows the Layout and all the Graphics that have been placed In this view you can switch between the front and the back of a layout e The Graphic View focusses on the individual Graphic Switching between those views can be done in one single session Sheet View In the Sheet View you can assemble the layout by placing a number of copies of one or multiple Graphics Graphic View In the Graphic View you are basically working on one side of a Graphic As stated earlier on a Graphic can contain graphics a cut path a mask and station marks The Graphic View offers all functionality to create and manipulate these objects e import graphics e create a cut path e align graphics and cut path e create a mask based on the cut path 2 3 3 Typical workflow i cut Layout supports the SmartNest workflow The process of creating a sheet is usually a logical progression First you define the sheet size and the margins Next you add the Graphics that you plan to in
96. ble with an ASCII editor at all times They can also be sent over a communication line using whatever communication protocol is available The drawback however is that hexadecimal image data may take up to twice as much size as binary data e Ascii 85 Encodes binary data in an ASCII base 85 representation This encoding uses nearly all of the printable ASCII character set The resulting expansion factor is 4 5 making this encoding more efficient then hexadecimal Compression None LZW or Flate PostScript3 devices Downsampling The images referenced in your design are subsampled approximately to the specified value Activating this option allows you not only to reduce the size of the generated PostScript file but also to speed up generation of the PostScript file Select the unit for subsampling from the drop down list lpmm or ppi You can subsample both bitmaps and contones Advanced Fonts e Contourize fonts Note Protected CID fonts will be referenced by name e Embed BG and Type1 fonts Allows you to include the used BG and Type 1 fonts of your design in your PostScript file Split Complex Paths Caution These are workarounds for typical PostScript level 1 path limitations Only use these when really necessary e Use Filled and stroked paths at X points to split linework with more than x points into several smaller linework parts This option decreases the complexity of the linework A suitable value for the selec
97. c information on screen ruling we refer you to the manual on Screens Angle To define the screen angle for the ink to avoid moire patterns especially when using process inks For more specific information on screen angles we refer you to the manual on Screens Dotshape To define the dot shape for the ink M for Monet E for Elliptical For more specific information on dot shapes we refer you to the manual on Screens The Inks Type choose Normal Opaque Varnish or Technical from the drop down list e Normal Normal inks are inks that appear transparent when printed over other inks Normal is the default type for all inks e Opaque Opaque inks are inks that appear opaque when printed over other inks Setting an ink to the Opaque type affects only the display of the ink e Varnish Varnish inks are inks that are used to create varnish sheets An ink set to Varnish does not display its color Setting an ink to the Varnish type affects only the display of the ink e Technical Technical inks are inks that are used for layout purposes only i cut Layout s Cut Ink and Crease Ink are examples of Technical inks Setting an ink to the Technical type does not affect the display but does affect their use in marks Graphic Numbers Geometry Marks and SmartMarks ignore technical inks F Opens a new menu Pa Show Options Columns Remove Unused Inks Shife trl 1 Remove Unused Colors and Inks Shifk Ctrl C So
98. can create a Cut Path based on a file by using Preparation gt import CAD design You can only have one CAD design in a Graphic at a time If you want to replace a CAD design with a different one click Preparation gt Import CAD Design The existing CAD design will be replaced by the new one lf you import a new CAD design and the existing one contained a bleed mask the mask will only be updated when switching to the Sheet View 5 2 2 Create Bleed If the graphic contains no information color outside of the cut path you can use Preparation gt Create Bleed to create a bleed i cut Layout In case of lineart graphics the graphics will get enlarged in case of contone graphics the contone pixels will be cloned Create Bleed Bleed Distance 5 000 mm To create a bleed the image s border color will be cloned f no border color is available a sample color from inside the image will be cloned Clone from 10 500 mm Force Cloning Create Cancel Bleed distance Defines how much bleed should be generated The Bleed Distance is the distance outside the cut path Clone from In normal circumstances the pixels just on the inside of the cut path are 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 pixels just on the inside of the cut path is white To prevent from cloning such a white pixel the Clone from d
99. clude on the sheet You can either use the Graphics tab of the SmartNest dialog box or the Graphic View to create Graphics containing graphics dies masks and Graphic marks Finally you add Graphics to the sheet to create a file that is ready for printing 2 3 4 Document window elements The different views all contain a display area and a number of toolbars see toolbars 15 ESKO cme 16 li cut Layout 10 1 0 BETA File Edit View Arrange Preparation Inks Tools Production Window Help ta y BS x Cu Miew 2 a Side 7 ia Preview E4 EA E A A 2 3 4 5 O 1 0 2000 0 mm Wasted 7 5 Smarthlarks i cut marks 2o 9 4 ite o im 5 x 6 188 0 ER gt designe Graphics Layouts g NewLayout 1 pdf Fa cd 5 x 1 100 200 300 400 500 600 Too S00 300 yoo a American ars _E pdf bell Ordered 1 Scale 100 0 Cut Path DieLine Bleed 5 000 mm Back Mame p x AmencanCars_1 pdt H Ordered 1 Scale 100 0 Cut Fath r DieLine Bleed 5 000 mm ikea rs_1 D Back Hame AmencanCars_2 pdf Ordered 1 Hi Zo o Scale 100 0 pce ea Cut Path DieLine a Bleed 5 000 mm Ea a Back Name g Americanas a pdf Ordered 1 Scale 100 0 Cut Path DieLine Bleed 6 000 mm Back Name V Amencanlars_4 pdf Ordered 1 Scale 100 0 Cut Fath r DieLine Bleed 6 000 mm B
100. color for the fill of the selected mark or one that you are about to create The color displayed is based on the settings of the Co or Factory Check the box to activate the Fill attribute 2 Click the Clipping path icon to knock out all data outside the borders of the path A clipping path is a vector path which allows part of an image to show while hiding the rest usually its background effectively rendering part of the image transparent It is a means to make parts of an image opaque and parts of an image transparent Usually it is used to knock out the background It is also a way of changing the rectangular shaped boundary of a bitmap image into a shape of your choice 209 EE eskos came 210 3 Click the arrow to select a blend mode from the list 4 Click the arrow to adjust the opacity using a slider 5 Turn overprint on or off by using the overprint checkbox The shaded circle P indicates that certain attributes have a transparency applied Tip Clicking the arrows expands or contracts specific parts of the Style window Tip Clicking the Fill title bar opens the Effects dialog box Stroke Style x al x Fill iv Gj 0100mm i EJ Normal 100 0 4 Overprint Me Norra FOU The Stroke Color box shows the current color for the stroke of the selected mark or one that you are about to create The color displayed is based on the settings of the Ink Sliders The Stroke Width field shows
101. color match but you want the pictures at least to look nice on your proofer It will give a visually pleasing result If the gamut of the source is wider than the proofer the entire gamut is shrunk so that it fits inside the gamut of the proofer e Saturation Use this option if you care especially about saturated colors It preserves the saturation of colors in the image at the possible expense of hue and lightness Set Document Profile A Document Profile is the color space of the process inks used in the document e Always you can tag a Normalized PDF file with its Document Profile This means that the file knows what its Document Profile is which may make further color conversion throughout a workflow more correct e Never Document Profile is not set Spot Colors PANTONE Inks e Keep All No PANTONE inks will be converted to process inks e Convert All All PANTONE inks will be converted to process inks e Keep list All PANTONE inks will be converted except those listed in the Inks tab Method e Use Destination Profile PANTONE and Designer inks will be converted using the selected Destination Profile This gives the most accurate color reproduction e PANTONE Solids to Process Euroscale PANTONE inks will be converted to process inks according to a fixed conversion table provided by PANTONE The result is independent of the selected Destination Profile This assumes the Euroscale print conditions e PANTONE Solids to
102. ct will be strong in areas of the mask that are close to 100 the Knockout effect will be weaker in areas with less opacity The Isolate Blending checkbox prevents blending modes applied to objects within a group from being applied to objects beneath the group This option is only useful when used on groups that contain at least one object with a blend mode other than Normal applied to them or when used on individual objects that have a blending mode other than Normal applied on the stroke and fill attribute of the object AJZ i cut Layout Ee Check the Inherit Knockout Group from Parent checkbox if you want to group objects without interfering with the knockout behavior determined by the enclosed layer or group Clear the option and check the Knockout Group checkbox to prevent transparency from revealing underlying objects within the group To make sure that a layer or group of transparency objects will never Knock each other out clear both the Inherit Knockout Group from Parent and Knockout Group checkboxes Changing the Opacity Gradient The Opacity Gradient offers a wide range of opacity gradients to be applied to the object fill and or stroke attribute of an object The Opacity value lets you vary the transparency with a constant value but the Opacity Gradient tool allows you to set varying levels of transparency The Opacity Gradient dialog still contains the aloha modes that were available in PackEdge 5 0 and earlier versions
103. culated choice will be made cutting out the underlying part and giving the top part carte blanche Export Collada Archive Studio Designer can also export to a Collada Archive zae a common exchange format for 3D models 1 Choose Export from Studio s fly out menu 2 Choose Collada Archives zae as file type Export Preview File Type Collada Archives zae 3D Presentation Cancel View Angle From Studio Window gt 36 5 9 75 Perspective 45 vi Include Graphics at pixels inch Mf Keep Printable Parts When this option is selected the graphics can be edited later but the output resolution is limited Texture Size 100 1 megapixel 3 Select Include Graphics at to include the graphics at the desired resolution 4 Ifyou want to further use the Collada Archive in Studio Designer you need to select Keep Printable Parts 188 i cut Layout lf Keep Printable Parts is enabled the artwork is always exported at the default resolution 5 Click the Save As button and define name and location for the file Note The exported Collada Archives zae can be further used in other EskoArtwork Studio applications like Studio Visualizer Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves or Esko Store Visualizer and ArtiosCAD or uploaded to the online EskoArtwork Studio Viewer save Graphics Preview as PNG From within the Studio window you can save a graphics preview file as a
104. d the copies in the wrong place but that in the 2D document window the different copies are overlapping one another This can happen whenever the graphic that you want to distribute is rather large We will need to make clipping masks in this case using the standard tools lf we do this for every distributed copies and then refresh the Studio window we will get the correct result You only need to make the clipping masks once Assume you would like to move the frog a little then simply move one copy and click Update Copies The other copies will also be updated and they will keep their position under their clipping masks How can distribute around a corner In this version of Studio Designer distributing is only possible to other coplanar panels Sometimes a distribution appears to go around the corner but this only works if a panel that is attached to the panel around the corner is coplanar with the selected panel i cut Layout This is not the case with the box in the next example In this version of the software we are not capable of doing this with the automatic distribute We have limited the distribution functionality to panels that are coplanar A face in the Studio window can be made up of different panels coming together A beautiful example is the bottom of the box in the picture below 193 194 i cut Layout 14 653 tee SSSSss esses e ewe ew eee eS SS SSSI SSSS ew 28 654 The b
105. dable field of the bar code symbol with the tip aligned with the outer edge of the light margin 119 ES eEskos cme The SmartMark bar code can get part of its parameters from an external source through SmartNames If this is the case then the parameter is no longer editable and the value is preceded by a green SmartMarks icon You have two options for using SmartNames in the SmartMark bar code dialog box 1 If the code field in the bar code SmartMark is SmartName enabled you can immediately make this field dependant of external data sources 2 If you want to vary other settings bar code type magnification as well you have to use the bottom field in the bar code SmartMark dialog box You can enter an XML line which will transfer its values to the different other fields of the bar code dialog box The field is SmartName enabled so you can get your XML information from an external data source Make sure that the syntax of this piece of XML is correct The syntax is the same as used when specifying bar code parameters in JDF tickets E g to specify type datamatrix and code string abcdef your data source has to return the following XML string lt eg BarcodeParam egBarc Type DATAMATRIX egBarc Code abcdef gt Bar Code Box Inks Position Type JEAN 13 Code O 1234567890128 Bar width Reduction 0 000 4 Device Compensation poo Magnification ll Height j25 930 Output Resolution 2540 cae
106. die ink in the file Default Bleed The value entered will automatically be applied to all Graphics that are loaded in i cut Layout This will be indicated in the Bleed column of the SmartNest dialog box View The View tab changes the way that your document is displayed Changes made here do not affect the structure of your document Files Shortcuts Server amp Resources Licenses Offcuts General Defaults View Color Editing Image Display Quality High Show Manual Cut Lines MrRed e Line Width 0 250 mm Preview he Anti alias oo Text Greeking es Show selection in preview Image Display Quality defines the resolution used by the application to display images e Very High the application creates a display image at the highest possible resolution regardless of the display information in the image file itself e High the application creates a display image at a high resolution 72 dpi regardless of the display information in the image itself This can take very long since all data of the images are read If you 135 EE eskos cme 136 have however a large job that takes more than half of the CT Cache Size the display image will be displayed at a resolution lower than 72 dpi e Default the application uses the display image of the CT file itself or if none is available creates a display image e Low the application uses a display image only if it is available in the CT image itself If you c
107. digital film ready for stepping i cut Layout is capable of doing quite some things a regular step and repeat machine cannot However like a step and repeat machine i cut Layout assumes that the graphics files are completely ready for imaging 6 1 About importing a graphic When you import a graphic into the Graphic View you can position and rotate the graphic just like you can with a piece of film Graphics are always imported as external references These external references provide the high resolution display of the graphic and contain both size and ink information i cut Layout uses these features to build Graphic objects Options windows for importing graphics files Some file formats have special features that can be accessed by their Options window The Options window for each imported graphic file type is discussed in the sections below You import a graphic into a Graphic by choosing the appropriate file type selecting the file and setting options in the Options window if necessary The default options for each file type have been chosen carefully so you should change these options only when you really need to All of the Options windows for the file types have two useful buttons the Reset button and the Customized Settings button e Reset The Reset button resets all the options that you may have changed in the Options window to their default values e Customized Settings The Customized Settings button allows you to s
108. dow menu The toolbar contains following tools OOOO O OOO e Cli ol e i l a Y a Select Tool Transform Tool Draw Shape tool Draw Cut Path Tool Contour Cleanup Tool Nick Tool Draw Bleed Mask Tool cut Marks tool ON OO PR ORN 213 EE skos a 214 9 Zoom Tool 10 Pan Tool 11 Measure Tool Working with tools and dialog boxes i cut Layout contains some unique tool features and icons that you may not have seen before These features are designed to provide you with just the right degree of productivity and simplicity Some tools can be used as one shot tools A one shot tool is a tool that can be used once during other commands After this one time use the current tool is reset to the tool that you were using originally One shot tools are highlighted in red instead of blue as shown below aA Envelope Some dialog boxes contain an envelope icon The envelope is used to expand a dialog box to show more options Clicking on a closed envelope will expand the dialog box to show more options for the particular feature Clicking an open envelope will collapse a dialog box to show fewer options FS Link In some dialog boxes you will see a link You use the link to enable or disable immediate refreshing of the screen When the link is broken as shown above you can make several changes or selections in the dialog box without waiting for the document window to refresh the display after each
109. e Black is best handled as knockout for flexo since it is better to add a small trapping region than to make the complete black region overprint Rich Black Set the paint mode for objects containing 100 black and at least one other ink e As Other Colors As it is defined in the job e Force Opaque masking Sets the overprint mode to opaque for all objects containing 100 black and at least one other ink e Force Postscript Overprint Keeps the PostScript overprint for objects in 100 black and at least one other ink overprint objects stay in overprint and opaque objects stay opaque e Force Darken Esko Forces Darken for all objects in 100 black and at least one other ink White Possible White paint modes to select from the drop down list e Opaque Forces all objects in white to Opaque e Keep PostScript Overprint Keeps the PostScript overprint for objects in White overprint objects stay in overprint opaque objects stay opaque 6 3 5 Images 69 Re eskos came 10 PostScript Import xj Pages Color Management Inks Overprint Images Page Size Other Output Embed all images i B bit and Native images with uncompressed image data size smaller than 640 kB will be embedded Link external images OFI DCS Helios Fail if not found lt 1 lt Search for preconverted files Optimize OCS Linework Images Reconvert ka Use Masks Jonea External and PS Mask Search directories Add Remo
110. e Layouts list in the Layout tab of the SmartNest window lists all layouts found and generated Next to the name of the layout i cut Layout will show the number of times the Layout is needed The Offcut button a green recycling icon is shown if an Offcut sheet can be created from the remainder of the material on that specific layout See Offcut sheets Export Production Files In this list you can e Select a Layout The selected layout will be shown in the working area and the number of Graphics applied on the currently selected Layout is shown in the Ordered section You can now modify the selected layout e Select a layout in the list and delete it by clicking the cross button e Open the Flyout menu by clicking the triangle button and select Delete All to delete all layouts e Click the Offcut button to create an Offcut sheet for the remainder of the material on that layout See Offcut sheets Note If you created a layout manually you can add it to the Layouts list by clicking the Add Layout button When all Graphics have been assigned and your layouts have been created you can add i cut marks see i cut Marks on page 105 and or barcodes to the selected Layout and export all layouts to PDF and cut files by clicking File gt Export or by clicking the Export Production Files button See Export Production Files i cut Layout You can also save the complete job including all Layouts as a PDFPLA file for furt
111. e Units or Origin go to Edit menu gt Preferences gt Defaults F Document Profile crom offs Descnipton crom ole E Cancel P Note The Select Job options are only available if you are connected to an Automation Engine server See Server and Resources tab in the Preferences 2 The Document Name you enter here will serve as the name for the search layouts i cut Layout Tip It is advised not to enter names of more than 7 characters This guarantees that in case of multipage files unique bar codes will be generated 3 Set the dimensions and substrate of your sheet e Define the sheet manually by entering the dimensions and by entering the substrate name manually or selecting a substrate from the dropdown list which contains all known substrates You can manage the list of substrates in the Substrate tab of the Sheet Presets See Sheet Presets e Select a sheet from the Sheet Presets dropdown and the vertical and horizontal dimensions and the substrate will be entered automatically See Sheet Presets You can also select Offcut Sheets see Offcut Sheets 4 Enter a decent margin to foresee enough white space to place cut marks and bar codes 5 Backing Up Define the way for backing up either Turn or Tumble This is useful for two sided printing see Two sided Printing 6 Click OK to create the new layout Clicking Cancel will close the Document Setup dialog box without creating a new sheet Your new shee
112. e blue rectangle the job borders 115 i cut Layout Image Inks Position Attach to Sheet Object Wane Offset 0 000 B Eo 0 000 amp Orientation al Attach to Sheet Sheet Visible Objects Objects Use the offset options nto HoE to apply an extra offset to the chosen position using Orientation Click one of the buttons to obtain the desired orientation for your image Angle pd allows you to specify an angle in case you selected the rotation button in the Orientation group 8 3 8 Rectangle A rectangle mark generates a rectangle with the specified dimenions in the required ink s 116 i cut Layout EE The Rectangle Mark dialog box has three tabs e Rectangle e nks e Position Tip The Rectangle can be moved in your job by simply using the Move tool i in the Tools toolbar Rectangle Enter the Rectangle s vertical and horizontal dimensions Rectangle Inks Position Height 10 000 mm Fitto Trim Box Borders width 10 000 mm Fit to Trim Box Borders Extra Height 0 000 mm Extra Length 0 000 mm Stroke 0 100mm Tint hooo 3 Enter the height and width of the ellipse Select the Fit to Trim Box Borders toggle if you want the width and height to be fitted to the trim box dimensions This will activate the Extra Height Length input boxes and will allow you to make the mark as long or wide as the anchor object borders margins Position Mark
113. e dot shape screen ruling angles and even Contone or Linework properties The latter does the same but also offers ink based dot gain compensation Note You can also apply both single curve and automatic DGC simultaneously resulting in a cumulation of both effects Roll Fed Devices Account for Media Width allows the conversion program to find the best printing orientation For roll fed devices mostly imagesetters a Media Width film width can be specified The conversion program finds the best printing orientation in order not to waste paper or file if Rotation is set to Auto The Media Width value is expressed in mm The option Extra Gap allows you to specify extra width for the film or paper feed The Extra Gap value is expressed in mm By default no Extra Gap is set For Device specific options please refer to the manual of your output device Inks Separations The Inks Separations tab depends on the output type you selected in the Output tab If you choose CMYK Composite or Composite the Inks tab will be visible if you choose separated the Separations tab will be visible Inks Tab Use technical inks in output Normally technical inks are hidden when you save a job in an Esko editor But there s a possibility to save the Technical inks as visible This toggle here makes it possible to output the visible non hidden technical inks The Inks are listed You can deselect the ones you want to exclude from export by clic
114. e followed by _001 _002 _0001_001 or it gets the output name Split up a multipage file Check the box to divide the original multipage PostScript file into smaller parts You define the amount of pages to open of the specified pages or range What you need to know e Each part is stored as a separate Normalized PDF file It is either stored locally or stored in the Output Directory e Each part is stored with the name of the imported PostScript file followed by _001 _002 _0001_ 001 or it gets the Output Name Merge Tiled CT files to one CT Some ArtPro files have tiled CTs those are CTs which are actually divided into a number of little CTs tiles Some jobs are so large that there are thousands of these little CTs Select this toggle to merge the tiles into one CT to improve editability of the Esko native file and to optimize further processing This option is default selected it doesn t matter if you import a file with no tiled CTs Note When errors occur when a PostScript file is imported e g a font is not found the Merge Tiled CTs to one CT will not be performed Merge Separated PostScript file to Composite page Merges separated single page and multi page PostScript files to a composite file Optimize Merged PostScript File This option optimizes the merged PostScript file This is useful when you need to edit the imported PostScript file This option becomes available when Merge Separate PostScript File to Composite
115. e g PDF X 3 If you want to use the color space as defined in the output intent use this toggle If you selected the toggle for a file without PDF Output intent the chosen Destination Profile will be used Rendering Intent e Relative No Background Use this option if you do not want any background simulation Any color that falls outside the range that the output device can render is adjusted to the closest color that can be rendered while all other colors are left unchanged The white point of the source will be mapped on the white point of the destination process This rendering intent takes into account the ability of the human eye to adapt to the surrounding white e Absolute Background Any colors that fall outside the range that the output device can render are adjusted to the closest color that can be rendered while all other colors are left unchanged The white point is preserved e Perceptual This will result in no background simulation white of reference color space is mapped on white of destination color space In other words if certain colors in an image fall outside of the range of colors that the output device can render the picture intent will cause all the colors i cut Layout 6 in the image to be adjusted so that the every color in the image falls within the range that can be rendered and so that the relationship between colors is preserved as much as possible Use this option if you don t care too much about an exact
116. e gt Ink Settings Ink name Ink book Ruling Angle Dotshape Moris mw Bere a fw Dow ices ew e e fw a S e o Autoload Ink Settings trom dob Setup Default values uted when a ruling angle or dotshape is not specified Ruling E Ip Angle E deg Dotshape Ii Place External Customized Settings Use rulings angles and dot gain compensation from PostScript file if available If the PostScript file contains rulings angles and dot gain compensation these will be used when this toggle is selected other settings in this tab will be overruled Apply Screen Swap Table Select a screen swap table from the drop down list Inks double click the fields to edit Autoload Ink Settings from Job Setup If Job parameters were defined you can use this toggle to make sure these inks are used If you do not click this button you are free to edit the ink settings The default values as defined at the bottom are used for ink attributres that are not set in the ink settings of the job setup Default values used when a ruling angle or dotshape is not specified Enter the default values for ruling angle and dotshape the system will take these values when they are not specified elsewhere i e in the PostScript file or in job Parameters 6 3 4 Overprint 6 Be eskos came 68 PostScript Import x Pages Color Management Inks Owerprint Images Page Size Other Output Strict overprint behaviour
117. e job e Reconvert forces the system to regenerate the images on the fly Use Masks Available in the drop down list are e PS Mask Forces the system to take the PS mask present in the PS file The mask available in the external image is discarded If no PS mask is present in the PS file no mask will be taken e External Mask if any PS Mask otherwise Forces the system to take the mask present in the external image The PS mask is discarded If the external image has no mask but there is a PS mask available in the PS file this PS mask will be taken e External Mask if any no mask otherwise Forces the system to take the mask present in the external image The PS mask is discarded If the external image has no mask no mask will be taken e No Masks The PS mask and the mask of the external image are discarded i cut Layout e Joined External and PS Mask Forces the system to join the available PostScript mask in the PS file and the available mask in the external image Search directories To specify a list of directories to look for referenced images Use the buttons Add and Remove to optimize the Search Directories list Clicking the Add button opens the directory selector You can browse to the correct directory and click OK to add the directory to the Search Directory list Path Translation To define an understandable link for paths from a platform to another platform If The Path translation dialog box opens it has th
118. e place on the front and back side 8 3 5 Text on Cut Path The Text on Cut Path SmartMark can be used to place text around the cut path of a graphic allowing to identify the individual graphics when placed on a layout Note Text on cut path can only be applied in Graphics view 110 i cut Layout Text SmartMark Options Text on Cut Path x Text Inks Position Text Style Smart Text Enter the text you want to place on the cut path Click Style to format your text Click Smart Text if you want to use smart text Inks See Setting Inks in SmartMarks SmartMark Options Text on Cut Path xj Text Inks Position Ink E Registration Select Inks Overprint ca Opaque Ignore Similar Inks Ignore Technical Inks Ignore Yarnish Inks Add White Halo EE Size li O00 mm To guarantee that the text is readable when placed over the bleed of the graphic there is an option to add a white halo around the text Position 111 ESKO i cut Layout SmartMark Options Text on Cut Path Ed Text Inks Position Stark at gt 0 000 k W Clockwise Offset 0 000 mm Define the start point direction and Offset for the text 8 3 6 Fotoba Mark The Fotoba SmartMark can be used to add vertical and horizontal lines specific for Fotoba roll cutters Mark SmartMark Options Fotoba Mark E Mark Inks Offset t 4 000 mm 4 000
119. e red selection to the same attribute of the green selection The attributes that can be aligned are left right top and bottom edges and the center vertical alignment and middle horizontal alignment of the objects E C Bi Align Left Aligns the left edge of the red selection to the left edge of the green selection Movement is horizontal only vertical position of the red selection remains unchanged I7 EE eskos came 198 l Align Center Aligns the center of the red selection to the center of the green selection Movement is horizontal only vertical position of the red selection remains unchanged Align Right Aligns the right edge of the red selection to the right edge of the green selection Movement is horizontal only vertical position of the red selection remains unchanged j Align Top Aligns the top of the red selection to the top of the green selection Movement is vertical only horizontal position of the red selection remains unchanged T Align Middle Aligns the middle of the red selection to the middle of the green selection Movement is vertical only horizontal position of the red selection remains unchanged o Align Bottom Aligns the bottom of the red selection to the bottom of the green selection Movement is vertical only horizontal position of the red selection remains unchanged Align Edge to Edge The Align Edge to Edge section is used to align the nearest opposite edge of the red selecti
120. ect Turn Box from the Studio fly out menu The Turn Box functionality is linked with the Floor concept so e g The selected panel facing up means that the selected panel will become the top panel relative to the floor Note The Turn Box option is only available for boxes ard vim and scb files 169 ESKO i cut Layout STUDIO Orientation AOSI Turn Box Lao Turn Box Turn ts bes lt lt The selected panel facing up Cancel The selected panel facing down Double click a panel to display it in the document window Ehle B l a t a _4 Bring Panel Forward and Send Panel Backward This functionality is only available for boxes and composed faces of which the panels are all in the same plane Overlapping panels in the same plane can occur in any file Sometimes the order of these overlapping panels is incorrect Most of the time this will happen when the panels have been folded 90 degrees on top of each other With Bring Panel Forward and Send Panel Backward you can correct this order If you wish to view another panel on top you can select the panel select Bring Panel Forward from the Studio fly out window and bring it forward Scenes and Multiple Documents The 3D object that you see in the Studio window is typically the combination of two files The artwork from the current Illustrator document and the shape from the structural design file that is placed in that
121. ect will snap to guides or other objects Enter a value between 0 and 16 Cursor Drag Delay defines the minimum distance in screen pixels the cursor must be moved before any transformation of an object takes place Enter a value between O and 16 Pan Overlap defines the percentage of overlap between the previous and new view when panning For example with the Pan Overlap set to 75 the new view after panning contains 75 of the previous view and 25 of a new view Shift and drag select reverses the selection Dragging a selection over an object while holding SHIFT actually deselects selected objects and selects unselected ones Create polygons by e One mouse click click the top left corner of the polygon depending on the chosen orientation and draw a polygon of the desired size e Two mouse clicks click both the top left and the bottom right corner of the polygon Files tab Use the Files tab to define file settings to be used by i cut Layout as you work on a document General Detaults View Color Editing Files Shortcuts Server Resources Licenses Offcuts Temporary Files H CaDocuments and Settings J AtLocal Settings TempiSiIGNUP_Vi00Wn3372 Show file optio in file selector dialog W Show thumbnail preview in file selector dialog Create backup file bak in same folder before saving Update extemal files when they are modified if Place PDF files without normalization a PDFPLA files wi
122. ed JDF and the JDF logo are trademarks of the CIP4 Organisation Copyright 2001 The International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress Press and Postpress CIP4 All rights reserved The Esko software contains the RSA Data Security Inc MD5 Message Digest Algorithm Java and all Java based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems in the U S and other countries Part of this software uses technology by BestTM Color Technology EFI EFI and Bestcolor are registered trademarks of Electronics For Imaging GmbH in the U S Patent and Trademark Office Contains PowerNest library Copyrighted and Licensed by Alma 2005 2007 All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners Correspondence regarding this publication should be forwarded to Esko Software BVBA Kortrijksesteenweg 1095 B 9051 Gent info eur esko com ESKO ce 2 Getting Started with i cut Layout 2 1 starting i cut Layout To start i cut Layout log on to your system if necessary and then do the following 1 Click Start gt Programs gt Esko 2 Select the version of i cut Layout that you have installed 3 The startup screen will appear 4 The sheet document window will replace the startup screen Or you can also simply double click the desktop icon i cut Layout 10 1 2 2 Creating your first nested layout To introduce you to some of the possibili
123. ed in the graphics file 5 1 4 Inks AmericanCars_ pdt Preview EEN AmencanCars_ pat 41 ESKO came The Inks tab shows all inks used in the graphics file including a preview of the color the name of the ink the lineature and the angle 5 2 Working In Graphic View The Graphic View is a view dedicated to editing a Graphic that you want to use on your sheet You can switch between the Sheet View and the Graphic View by clicking the view icons in the View Selector You can also open a Graphic in Graphic View by double clicking it in the Graphics list in the Graphics tab of the SmartNest window 5 2 1 Defining the Cut Path 42 In the Graphic View in i cut Layout you can create or select a Cut Path to be used for the Graphic e Select Cut Path allows to select a cut path that already exists in the file See Select Cut Path e Create Cut Path allows to create a new cut path See Create cut path e Optimize Cut Path allows you to optimize an existing cut path See Optimize Cut Path Select Cut Path Use Preparation gt Select Cut Path to select a cut path using several different methods Custom size You can create a rectangular Cut Path by using the option Custom Size Simply specify the required height and width of the Cut Path Select Die Shape x Die Shape Use Custom Size at 496 959 mm H 51 0 000 mm Cancel Trim Box You can fit the cut path to the trim size of an imported graphic E
124. ed in this Decimals input box Save automatically every Defines how often you want the application to save your work automatically The interval between 2 automatic saves is expressed in minutes Your work is saved in a file called autosave pla or autosave pdfpla in the Temporary directory you have selected in the Files tab sheet A value of O disables automatic save Maximum Memory Usage for Image Data Defines the amount of RAM allocated for storing Image display images The higher the value the more RAM the system has at its disposal for the display image s reducing the need to reload display images from the hard disk Select Low when several application are running simultaneously on the system The maximum amount of memory allocated by the editor is limited to make sure that other applications still have enough memory This setting is also recommended when the system has 512Mb or lower Select Medium for normal use and for the editor s most optimal performance By choosing Medium there is still some free memory available for other applications and the system itself Select High when the editor is allowed to allocate most of the system resources In this case most image data is stored in memory instead of written to temporary files on the disc This setting is only recommended when the editor is the only high end application on the system and when the system has 1GB or more physical computer memory Select Custom to
125. edded Link external images OPI DCS Helios Fail if rot found a lt 1 lt Search for preconverted files Optimize OCS Linework Images Reconvert r Use Masks Joined External and PS Mask Search directories Add Remove Path Translation File Translation Image creation path Ti i IM Place External el Embed all images Select this toggle if you want to embed 8 bit and native images Link External Images OPI DCS Helios Force the system to look for referenced images Fail if not Found Activate this option if you do NOT want the system to continue opening your PostScript file when it cannot find an image When this option is not activated the imported E PS file will appear on screen but without the missing images Search forPreconverted Files this option forces the system to look for the GRx PDF CT or LP equivalent for the original EPS file If this equivalent is not found it will use the EPS instead The Optimize DCS LineWork toggleWithout linework DCS optimization the result after conversion of linework DCS files can be difficult to edit However it will be correct when viewed in extended preview or RIPped Optimize DCS Linework will do an additional operation to combine the elements on each DCS sheet to a composite and a more editable result Images Available options are e Use Most Recent forces the system to use the existing images of a previous conversion of the sam
126. efine add or modify colors or vignette colors to be applied to objects When you click a color swatch to add a color it is automatically filled with an empty color white Note You can also resize the Style Bar horizontally to display more color swatches Color Name input box To define a work name for the selected color swatch in the Color Palette to help you to identify the color for a category of objects You created a drawing with a blue color for the sky and a blue color for the ocean For the first blue color you can enter the name sky and for the second blue color you can enter the name Ocean When you select the name the color with that name becomes selected in the Color Palette Caution The name you enter in the Color Name input box is job related and is only a tool to quickly retrieve colors It is NOT a designer ink that you create here There are 2 special entries in the color palette e registration color e darkest color Vignette 199 EE Eskos cue 200 To change the selected color from a plain color to a vignette color or vice versa The vignette options display in the Color factory For more information about the vignette options we refer you to the Vignette Color Factory See Color Factory on page 200 The highlighted button indicates that a vignette color is active for the selected color swatch in the Color Palette Caution White which is the empty color that automa
127. elect tiles by clicking in the tile Columns or Rows are selected by clicking outside the row or column By clicking on a tile line you can select the complete vertical or horizontal line e You can select multiple tiles by clicking and dragging over them e To select a tile side hold down the Alt key e To add tiles rows or columns to the selection hold down the Ctrl key e Use Ctrl A to select all vertical edges or Ctrl Alt A to select all horizontal edges Manually changing tiles You can manually change tiles by selecting the tile edge s and clicking and dragging the selected tile edges A red arrow will show the movement If a single tile is selected z Customize Tiling essa Loom Sp fy amm fomm foom e You can change the size of the tile by entering the desired size When changing the height or width of a tile this will influence the adjacent right or bottom tile extending the width or height of a tile will take up space of the adjacent right or bottom tile When changing the height width of the right most or bottom most tile the dimensions of the adjacent left top tile will get changed e You can modify the Overlap distance in a specific direction Tile sides on the outside of the total Grid Size can t have an overlap e Using the button you can Split the selected tile A dialog will open allowing to define in how many rows and columns the tile should be split If a number of tiles is selected z
128. election and green selection A green selection is a locked a red selection is moved to align with the green selection Like the Transform window the Align window uses the die of the current selections if there is one to align the objects Aligning objects with the Align Window You align objects with the Align window by selecting objects and pressing the appropriate button To align an object to the center of the sheet 1 Select the object that you want to align i cut Layout 17 Pressing both buttons one after the other aligns the object to the exact center of the sheet Pressing only one of the buttons aligns the object in that direction only 2 Press the one or both of the Align to Sheet buttons in the Align window To align two objects by the same attribute 1 Select the object that you want to align to 2 Press Insert to make the selection green 3 Select the object that you want to align 4 Press the appropriate Align by Attribute button in the Align window Pressing more than one button after another performs multiple alignment commands For example pressing Align Middle followed by Align Center will align the exact center of the red selection to the exact center of the green selection To align two objects edge to edge Select the object that you want to align to Press Insert to make the selection green Select the object that you want to align Enter a Gap in the appropriate field
129. en easily move them behind again To change the order of layers 1 Click and drag the layer to a new location in the list The location that the layer will be moved to is highlighted 2 Release the mouse button The layer is moved to the new location in the list Objects in the layer now appear on top of objects on lower layers Moving objects to a different layer To move objects from one layer to another you use the Cut and Paste commands When you use the Cut or Copy commands and then use Paste the object is placed on the same location To move an object to a different layer you cut the object from its current layer select a new layer and paste it into the new layer To move an object to a different layer 1 Select the object s you want in a different layer 2 On the Edit menu click Cut 3 Make another layer the Active Layer by selecting it 4 On the Edit menu click Paste i cut Layout 17 The object is placed in the new layer on the same location from which it was cut Using a Grid Layer Grid layers contain evenly spaced guides that can be used to align objects You can specify the spacing of a grid layer You can also create multiple grid layers each with a different spacing You can then turn these layers on and off as you need them To create a grid layer 1 Open the Layer Browser by clicking Layer Browser on the Window menu 2 Click the Add Grid Layer button EE The Grid dialog box
130. enter an object on the current die You should also remember that Align works with all types of objects in both the Sheet and the Graphic View So you can use Align to align a graphic or a SmartMark with the current die 91 ESKO cum 1 4 lwo sided Printing When preparing sheets for two sided printing you need to take the following steps e Set up Graphics with a back side See Two sided Graphics e Generate the necessary layouts for the front side e Generate the back side for every sheet See Two sided sheets e Export the PDF and icut files for the sheets 7 4 1 Two sided Graphics 92 i cut Layout can create the back of a sheet layout from the front for two sided printing When i cut Layout creates the back side of the sheet the back side of each graphic is inserted automatically You need to create a two sided graphic in the Graphic View to create a two sided sheet for printing To create a back side from the front there are two ways In the Graphics tab 1 Click Back Name for the Graphic you want to add a Back Side 2 Select the file to be used as the back side graphic In the Graphic Settings 1 Open the Graphic Settings See Graphic Settings 2 Select the Back tab 3 Select Use same graphic on back to set the same graphic for the front and the back side In this case you can use Flip Horizontally to mirror the graphic on the back side 4 You can select another Graphic to be used on the back side by setting the
131. erprint tool 5 3 Working with Placeholders 48 Working with Placeholders allows you to create layouts even when the Graphics aren t available yet Only the size needs to be known To create a Placeholder O o A Q In the Graphics tab of the SmartNest window click the Add Placeholder button Add Placeholder Ed Based on File Name Placeholder 1 Height 100 000 mm Width Color ee Cut Path Trim Boo OK Cancel If you want to base the Placeholder on a file you can enable Based on File and browse for the file using the Select File button In case of a CAD file the trim box will be used and the cad information will be used as Cut Path For other files only the trim box size is taken from the Base file Enter a Name for the Graphic If not using a base file enter the Height and with You can click the Color square to change the representation color for the Placeholder Click OK i cut Layout 5 When a layout has been generated Placeholders can be replaced by the actual Graphics by using Preparation gt Replace by Graphics file While doing so a check will be performed based on the size of the Placeholder against the chosen Graphics file Another way to replace Placeholders is using the Graphic Settings simply browse to the real Graphics See Graphic Settings 5 4 Adjusting overlapping Graphics In production your sheet layouts may have Graphics that partially overlap one an
132. file This choice is preferable if we are sure the PDF file will be sent to the device specified in the Destination Profile If this toggle is on the color in the PDF file will be tagged with an ICC color profile The document then becomes device independent and its colors will be reproduced accurately even on devices with a color space different from the one specified in the Destination Profile In this case the Destination Profile is an intermediate color space between the Source Profile and the color profile of the device that will eventually process the PDF file This method is preferable when the PDF file will be sent to an unknown device Embed the document profile as PDF Output intent The output intent is an ICC profile that specifies the intended output device If this option is toggled on the document profile will be saved as the PDF output intent For certain PDF flavors PDF X 3 an output intent is mandatory and this option is always on If no document profile was set explicitly the default document profile crom_offs is used instead If the document profile is a Kaleidoscope profile it will first be converted to an ICC profile Rasterize Output as image When this toggle is activated an image is made of the job Enter the resolution Anti aliasing is relevant for the line art objects in your design that need pre processing and for which images are generated Anti aliasing smoothens the staircase effect you get in the generated image
133. fill in the total percentage of the physical computer memory that can be allocated by the editor for handling image data Make sure there is enough other physical computer memory available for the OS 250Mb other applications and the memory needed to run the editor and handling documents 200Mb Defaults Use the Defaults tab to set the units and the default origin for new documents i cut Layout Files Shortcuts Server amp Resounces Licenses Offcuts General Defaults View Color Editing oe These default settings will be used initially when creating a new layout Changes will become effective when creating a new layout Units Mm Origin o CIEN Default Die Ink Enter one or more ink names separated by commas Use the wildcard to enter only a part of an ink name For example die cut Default Bleed Units Specify whether you want your measurements and calculations displayed in millimeters or inches Origin Choose the orientation of the axes in your document Your preference will be stored inside the file Opening the file later will set the orientation in the same situation as in which the file was created Caution It is not possible to change the units or orientation while working at the job New preference settings will only be applied when creating a new job Default Die Ink In case you always use the same die ink you can specify it here and it will automatically be detected as the default
134. for this ink bleeding the bars have to be a little thinner The exact value will be provided by your printer or customer If the printer specifies for example that the line width will increase with 0 01mm then specify a bar width reduction of 0 01 mm By default the value O is entered for all bar codes This means that the bar width is not adapted A negative value in this input box results in thicker bars a positive value in thinner bars Device Compensation The in decrease in bar width has 2 causes the printing process printed line is wider than what is on the sheet and the plate making process Here you can enter a device compensation value The net compensation is the sum of both the device compensation and the Bar Width Reduction You can leave on 0 if you do not want to compensate Magnification Represents a reduction or enlargement factor for proportional reduction or enlargement of the bar code Entering 1 creates a 100 bar code Entering 1 5 creates a 150 bar code The value is an absolute factor which is automatically rounded depending on the type of bar code As bar codes are magnified or reduced in size the relationship between the bars remains constant The widths of individual bars and spaces however are increased or reduced Note Since all the values in this dialog box are related proportionally specifying a number in the Magnification input box will influence the other values in the dialog box Height The height of
135. freshing By clicking the Refresh button in the bottom left corner of the Studio Window the graphics will be drawn on the box Every time the graphics change the Studio Window will only update if you click the Refresh button 164 i cut Layout Ee Refresh is also available via refresh in the fly out window lf Auto Refresh is enabled in the fly out window the Studio Designer window will automatically be refreshed every time your document is changed Changing the viewing Angle and Distance In the Studio Window you can look at the package from different angles You can simply click and drag to rotate the 3D object To indicate that the package is not floating in mid air the floor concept was introduced A package in the Studio Window is always positioned relative to the floor giving the package a top and bottom definition If the package currently only boxes is showing the wrong panel as top panel then you can use the Turn Box option See Turn Box By moving the slider in the bottom right corner you can look at the box from a closer or further distance Note When your box is facing the wrong way and when you have difficulty to turn your box upright try using Turn Box The turning around functionality has been designed in such a way that it works fine if you have selected the right bottom panel Changing the Appearance You can open the Appearance dialog by choosing Appearance from the fly out menu In the Appearance d
136. gabyte Convert text to contours will contourize all text Note Conversion might increase the file size Workaround Options Skip Images Check this box to open the EPF file without linking to external images or converting embedded images Preserve Quark trapping Forces the system to keep the trap strokes made by QuarkXpress Disable optimizations Vignettes recognition and optimization for Photoshop Multitone images are performed whenever possible when this option is not activated Sometimes after updating your DTP applications Esko can no longer perform the optimization and the conversion of the E PS file might fail Switching this option ON will allow you to import the E PS file Show PS comments All PS comments present in the E PS file are displayed on screen Disable OPI This option is valuable when you are importing E PS files of QuarkXpress containing high resolution Tiffs files for which the option Include tiff omit or Include all was activated In this case when importing such a file and if Link External Images page 5 is activated the matching for the TIFF files will surely fail It fails because at the time the E PS file was generated OPI commands were also inserted for the TIFF files Therefore the system will try to link to images for the Tiff files To overcome this activate Disable OPI Show external images searches Displays the path s in which the system has found and linked to external images
137. gate to Desktop gt i cut Layout Sample Files select the six PDF files and click Open 7 Select the Layout tab of the SmartNest dialog enter a 2 mm Gutter width and click Find Layouts Now to have i cut Layout find the optimal sheet usage Graphics Layouts Ordered Graphics J l F AmericanCars tot o a Pl AmericanCars 4p jo Find Nested Layouts Nesting Type Minimal waste Search Time Fast Respect the Graphic s Order Fil Start Point Top Let Primary Fill E vetica Gutter 5 000mm Rotation allow any Ange After nesting center graphics on sheet Horizontally T Layout Hame NewLapout 1 Find Layouts Howl Layouts N ewLay out 1 aE NewLayout 2 In the Layout tab you can see i cut generated 2 Layouts The first contains 4car images the second contains the remaining two Shown below is a completed nesting 11 i cut Layout 8 When the nesting is complete export it by clicking File gt Export or by clicking the Export Production Files button in the Layouts tab of the SmartNest dialog i cut Layout can export the nesting as a PDF file for printing and a file for cutting which can be either an i cut native file an HPGL file or a PDF file T2 i cut Layout Export Production Files Eup all acca el aau z Select the ink s export type and optionally its layer name fh Eyan he W Magenta G Magenta Fellow fh Tellow Black oh
138. ging the mouse inside the little preview square You can also change the Perspective A high value has the effect of a camera with a wide angle lens close to the object A low value has the effect of a camera with a zoom lens further away from the object Contrary to the situation in the Studio Window the object will always fit completely inside the exported image Check the first box if you like to Include Graphics in the TIFF file The Transparent Background option allows you to set the background transparent instead of the color chosen in Appearance Tip If you want to use Photoshop to add some more realism to the 3D renderings you can output two TIFFs one with only shading and one with only graphics all other settings identical You can then combine them as two layers in Multiply mode and fine tune the shading layer Export to a 3D PDF File In Adobe Reader or Acrobat Professional version 8 0 1 or later you can view rotate 3D objects in PDF files Studio Designer can write such PDF files that can be used to view a package in 3D on a computer that does not have Illustrator or Studio installed Choose Export from Studio s fly out menu Choose PDF File with 3D Design as file type You can define the Size of the PDF file Since the PDF file is only meant for on screen viewing this size is of little importance The Add Footer toggle allows you to switch on or off the footer text Instead of the default EskoArtwork text you can
139. he name of the report will be lt filename gt _report pdf The report will be a PDF file containing e the name of the graphics e apreview of the total graphics with the tile order tile edges and the total dimensions e a preview of every tile showing the tile graphics the dimensions and the overlap areas 5 5 3 Working with a Tiling Template 56 When a tile grid has been created and customized including overlap and gaps you can save the grid as a tiling template by clicking the Save Tiling Settings button The Tiling templates are stored on a central folder bg_data_custom_v010 dat tiling When creating a new tiling grid you can select an existing Tiling Template from the dropdown list After selecting a Tiling Template the size of the grid is shown but can not be modified The bottom part of the dialog shows a preview of the Tiling Template Create Tiling Grid x Tiling Template TilingTemplatet Grid Size D Copy from Graphics Template Preview 36 Tiles i cut Layout 5 HEH En00 000 mm HH 5000 000 mm M Fit Graphics to Grid OF Cancel If you enable Fit Graphics to Grid your Graphic will be scaled to match the Grid Size both vertically and horizontally This can result in non proportional scaling If the option is enabled an info icon is shown When moving the mouse over this icon will show the resulting scaling 0 6 Jigsaw Tiling Follow the steps below to create a jigsaw tiling layout
140. heir corresponding points are displayed by default for the vignette You may add curves and points by clicking the intersecting points and dragging the points to the top of the vignette curve or by dragging and dropping additional colors to the intersecting points e Delete colors from the vignette by clicking the point that represents the color you want to delete and dragging it downward outside of the Vignette dialog box Vignette Envelope The envelope in the vignette Color Factory contains the Color Factory or the Ink Factory Smooth Vignette Button gt a Essentially the smooth vignette button activates an automatic mechanism that determines the course of the colors in such a way that banding is no longer visible in the vignette Position of Vignette Color a Enter a numeric value in the input box to change the position of the vignette color The default is 50 for intersecting points and 100 for starting and ending points The intersecting point remains between 13 and 87 The icon before the input box will change depending on the vignette point you clicked on into an intersecting point hi or a beginning or ending point A Opacity inl Determine the opacity of the selected vignette color by entering a value in the input box Vignette Direction m Click this button to indicate the starting and ending point for the vignette in the job The point you click first is the point where the vignette starts The second point you click is
141. her editing or archiving 3 4 Export Production Files Export Production Files i xj eel jal arrepta yout E Select the ink s export type and optionally its layer name a Magenta E Yellow HE ello l lack eh Black H DieLine x DieLine Print File Preset pd t Actions File Hame NewLayout 1 Settings In Folder Select Folder Cutting File Preset icut file r Actions File Type Cut File File Hame NewLayout 1 In Folder Select Folder Report ML report JPEG thumbnail with resolution 72 dpi In Folder Select Folder Export Production Files allows to save all files needed to produce the current layouts e a PDF file which will be sent to the proofer or digital press e acutting file which will be sent to the cutting table The Export Production Files dialog contains different parts e The Inks export type e Export PDF File to create the PDF files containing all graphics for the layouts e Export Cutting File to create the file i cut file HPGL PDF MFG ACM or JDF file containing all cutting information Export options e f Export All Accepted layouts is selected all layouts will be output instead of only outputting the selected layout 31 ESKO came 32 Inks The Inks shows all inks used in the layouts The first column lists the name of all inks The second column shows how the inks are assigned a these inks need to be printed so they
142. hers will not be updated automatically To have them updated select Update Copies from Studio s fly out menu When updating copies the selected one is used to recreate all the other copies This is how the package looks before updating Refresh Orientation Lal Ce Show Transparent Panels Show Outlines Show 3D Guides Appearance Turn Box Bring Panel Forward Send Panel Backward Fold ArtiosCAD File Change Board Export Save Graphics Preview as PNG 14 653 Update Copies i Undistribute d Expand i 4 Y 4 Fit Panel in Document Window ay a7 28 654 IM R 4 NO r This is how the package will look after updating 14 653 28 654 Undistribute and Expand The options Undistribute and Expand which can be found in Studio s fly out menu also apply to distributed art If you select distributed art and you Undistribute all other non 183 ESKO i cut Layout selected copies are deleted If you have distributed art selected and you Expand nothing will change visually yet the selected art will loose its intelligence and become regular artwork insensitive to actions like Update Copies or Undistribute You will need to use Expand if you start copying and pasting distributed art The copy will still be considered as part of a distribution by expanding it it will no longer be seen as a distribution but as an o
143. hoose this possibility the CT will not be visible in the Extended Preview mode Caution The option Very High is introduced to try to enable real resolution views of CTs Due to the large amounts of data this involves setting the Image Display Quality to Very High will considerably slow down the visualization Consequently we would like to recommend you not to play with it and only use these possibilities when you really need them Show Manual Cut Lines defines color and width of the manual cut lines Manual Cut Lines are cut lines drawn with the Draw Cut Path tool in the Graphic View or created by applying Outline of all objects in the Select Cut Path dialog box See Select Cut Path on page 42 All other lines follow the CAD styles Anti aliasing is relevant for the line art objects in your design that need pre processing and for which images are generated Anti aliasing smoothens the staircase effect you get in the generated images of lineart objects that need pre processing Tip This option increases the readability of small text that is pre processed to image Text Greeking defines the minimum size of the text before it is displayed as a filled box rather than readable text The boxes will turn into text again when zooming in Show Selection in Preview When objects are selected they are displayed with a red outline You can choose not to show the selection in the three color display modes by clearing this box Se
144. ialog you can change several appearance settings Depending on which kind of structural design file is shown in your Studio Window you can modify the Background Color and Inside Color change the Floor Reflection set the Shadows or Highlights or even change the Highlight Type of your flexible packaging substrate of a bag file When working with boxes ard files there is also the Show board thickness option with this option on not only the board thickness is shown but also the corrugated edges from the board chosen in the ard file 165 S KO e i cut Layout When working with flexibles bag files the inside of the bag will be shown using the definedlnside Color As in a correctly designed bag the inside is not visible setting a bright inside color can be used to visually check your bag files Appearance Scene o Background Color Ma i 5 g F Floor Reflection En Appearance Cancel Model Scene free Background Color Mi Show Board Thickness Floor Reflection Inside Color en geese Shadows OS 30 Model Show Inside 7 Inside Color Type of Highlights Glossy ard Highlights Appearance Shadows Scene oK Background Color Floor Reflection Cancel bag Shadows azae dae Note All settings except the Floor Reflection from the Appearance dialog are used in the Export dialog Working with Panels A box design and a bag des
145. ic or select a Graphic directly from the drop down list Preparation Inks Tools Production Window Trapping Help Edit Graphics File Alt 2 Previews ee rey ae Select Gut Path me Greate Gut Path ae l Optimize Gut Path Greate Bleed White Underprint sot Gl soe Add Graphic Replace Graphic Ctrl 4lt 4ssign Graphic to Design fay 4 AmericanCars_6 odF Inport Geb Besign Replace by Graphics Filen br alr o D B Anericanclars 3 pdf E ic Export Graphic Gtr tAE E E Ae ea taal F H Americancars 5 pdf B AmericanCars_1 pdf z P AmericanCars_2 pdf 3 Select the type of file that you would like to assign from the Files of type list 4 Select the new Graphic file to use 5 Click Open The Graphics that you selected are replaced with the new Graphic Any Graphics that were not selected for the Replace Graphic command remain the same i cut Layout 17 7 3 Arranging Objects In the previous chapters you learned how to work with Graphics You can start with a CAD layout and assign Graphics to the layout You can also place Graphics in the manual layout workflow You also know how to adjust overlapping Graphics and how to number Graphics The rest of i cut Layout s tools help you to complete your sheet layout You can organize your work by using Layers You can transform objects on the sheet using the Transform and Align windows And you can create a
146. ifferent points The end point has to be on or close to the contour so it will snap again Tip When you want to put an intermediate point of your line or curve segment near a contour click the middle mouse button instead of the left mouse button to prevent that contour from being affected Move Point To move points and anchor points on a segment or an object When you move the points you can change the size and shape of the segment or object f Delete Point To delete points from a segment or object By deleting the points you can change the shape of the segment or object H Change Start Point and Direction Click a point to define it as the starting point Click the point again if you want to change the direction of the curve Nick Tool Nicks are small pieces of substrate that are not cut by the table and thus create interruptions in the cut path when exporting to cut As a result the cut design will stay attached to the substrate Nicks may be present in the design but the nick tool allows you to add or remove extra nicks that guarantee tiles to stay connected You can specify the size of the nick in the box Click the cut path and add or remove nicks as you wish When exporting the position and size of the nicks will be saved in the cut file Tip Press the Alt key to switch between the Add Nick and Remove Nick tools 219 EE eskos cme 220 Draw Bleed Mask ool Use the Draw Bleed Mask tool to create
147. ign consist of a set of panels which are folded relative to each other selecting Panels In the Studio Window you can select a panel simply by clicking on it The selected panel is used by certain Studio Designer features and does not affect the selected artwork 166 i cut Layout Ee STUDIO Orientation Tip Show Face Outline in the fly out menu ensures that the selected panel is also shown in the your document as a blue solid line Note Sometimes a dotted line appears next to the solid one This is the case when you select a panel that is also part of a composed face 167 ESKO i cut Layout About Hidden Panels Some panels cannot be seen in the Studio Window because they are covered by another panel no matter which angle you are viewing the package from To see those panels you can choose Show Transparent Panels which is available at the bottom and from the Studio Window fly out menu In this mode the package is drawn in a semi transparent way allowing you to see covered panels This will help you to understand how the package s 2D unfolded view and the 3D view relate to each other STUDIO Refresh Orientation Lal EE Show Transparent Panels Show Outlines Show 3D Guides Appearance Export Save Graphics Preview as PNG Distribute Selection Hide Face Outlines Double click a panel to display itin the document window Cre fai a Hie By holding the alt key and click
148. ile is either a Composite or Pre Separated file The PostScript Export settings has the following tabs e Output e Device e Inks Separations e Color Management e Rasterize e Compression Advanced PS Export B Preview Output Device Separations Color Management Rasterize Compression Advanced Device type E Esko Graphics Certin PS 3 PostScript 3 color device bctrane ppd Output type Fre separated gt Emulsion up Right reading Fp Image Postiwe Vertical distortion ho 5 Horizontal distortion fho a Smarth arks None d W Account for Media Box margins Scale amp Tile Scale fioo a Fit job on page Shrink oversized jobs to paper size Overlap fa mm Tile job T Hide trap layer s in output Fage range All Selection Curent page T Page setup Paper size job Onentation None Pages fi Enter page numbers andor page ranges separated by commas For example 1 3 5 16 Alignment Eottom left ka Number of copies fi i Paper 1800 0 x 1600 0 Mm Appling Smarthlarks might add some new inks to the file The Ink Selection in the Inks Separation tab will be reset Job 1800 0 4 1600 0 Mim Customized Settings 125 EE skos a 126 Output Emulsion Up To obtain Right Reading emulsion up or Wrong Reading emulsion down Image To specify Positive or Negative print mode Note Image and Emulsion u
149. imported graphic Deleting a mask Because the mask is an unfilled and uncolored contour it is difficult to select and delete it in the color view modes However you can easily identify and select the mask when you set the preview mode to Cross Masks are always displayed as blue outlines in Cross and Contour modes making them easy to identify and select To delete a mask 1 Set the display mode to Cross 2 Locate and select the blue mask outline 3 Press Delete Replacing a mask If you have an imported CAD die in your Graphic and then use the Draw Cut Path tool to create a new die the imported CAD die is replaced with the contours that you create with the tool This also applies if the cut path is on the trim box of the job If the die is created in another way e g by extracting contours in a specific ink this die is kept and should be deleted manually if it is no longer wanted 221 EE skos a PA a i cut Marks tool The i cut Marks tool allows to manually add i cut Marks For more on i cut Marks and the available options see i cut Marks Zoom Too Use the Zoom tool to magnify a portion of your workspace at an increased scale To zoom in click with the left mouse button To zoom out click with the right mouse button Or you can move the mouse cursor to a corner of the area to zoom in upon hold down the mouse button and drag to the diagonally opposite corner Tip Use the Zoom In and Zoom Out commands
150. in the View menu to zoom one zoom level at a time Pan Tool Use the Pan tool to move around the document You can change your view of the current document by using the Pan tool or the Pan Window see Using the Pan Window The Pan tool is located on the Tools toolbar the Pan Window is opened from the Window menu To use the Pan tool select the tool and use the cursor to drag the document around in the document window You can also pan around the document using the window scroll bars Use the Pan Window to see an overview of your document and the current view The document is displayed as a thumbnail with a rectangle indicating the current view 1 On the Window menu click Pan Window The Pan Window opens Pan Window es nr oD 2 You change the view area by dragging the red view rectangle to other locations on the thumbnail You can also set the four Memory buttons at the bottom of the dialog box to remember previous views To store the current view in a Memory button 1 Click and hold one of the memory buttons The button will turn pink i cut Layout 2 An Info dialog box will be displayed to inform you that the current view has been stored The envelope in the Pan Window is used to expand the dialog box to show more options Click the envelope to expand the dialog Pan Window x x wf We DD The expanded Pan Window dialog box contains other features You can use the arrow buttons to move the
151. ing a panel one or several times you can select a panel that is behind another panel 168 i cut Layout Ee If you double click a panel or if you select Fit Panel in Document Window from the Studio Window s fly out menu the document window will zoom in on the corresponding part of the graphics Zooming in on Panels in the document window If your graphics are in another document then this document will become active Since only one document can be open at once this will close the open document If the open document was changed you will be asked if you want to save the document first Furthermore the orientation of the document window will change to match the orientation in the Studio Window as closely as possible You can also zoom in by holding down the Ctrl key and dragging a rectangle around the area you want to zoom in on By spinning the package and double clicking the different panels the Studio Window can be used to navigate through the document Turn Box When working with designs for folding carton or corrugated boxes you might not be able to position the box in the desired viewing angle in the Studio Window This happens when the package has the wrong panel s facing up You can change this e g in the structural design file by selecting another Base Panel in ArtiosCAD or Studio Toolkit for Boxes but you can also turn the box in the Studio Window Just select a panel that should be facing up or down and sel
152. ing a set 98 If you regularly create jobs that use the same marks you can save time by creating a set that contains all these marks Each mark of a set can be applied in one step by selecting it from the Mark Set list To create and save a Mark Set 1 In the SmartMarks dialog box add all the marks that you would like to have included in your set 2 On the fly out menu click Save Set 3 Enter a name for the Set and click OK i cut Layout Ei Note If you save a Set it will automatically become active See Using a set 8 2 5 Using a set Once you have defined a SmartMark set its name will appear in the Mark Set list To use it simply select its name from the list The marks in that set will be applied to the current job However it might occur that you want to keep existing marks that are already present in the job while adding marks from a set If this is the case you should use Load Set to add the marks of a set to existing marks that are already in the job If a set is active its name will be shown in the bottom Status bar and the SmartMarks defined in the set will be applied automatically when generating a new Layout 8 2 6 Replacing and editing a set Replacing a set If you have used a Set in a job and want to use a completely different set simply open another set Opening a different set will remove all the marks from the previous set and replace them with marks from the new set Editing a set Edi
153. ing layout Close closes the job you are currently working on Save saves the layout you are currently working on Save as saves the layout under another name Launch Workflow allows to submit the current job to a workflow queue using Shuttle See Shuttle Save and Select in Esko Automation Engine Pilot automatically selects the open file in the Automation Engine Pilot When the document has been changed you will be prompted to save the changes Save Red Selection and Select in Esko Automation Engine Pilot saves the red selection and automatically selects the open file in the Automation Engine Pilot When the document has been changed you will be prompted to save the changes Note These two options are only available if you are connected to an Automation Engine Pilot Note The Automation Engine Pilot needs to be running Export Layout allows to export a layout to a PostScript file See Exporting to a PostScript File i cut Layout e Export Production Files allows you to export a layout to a PDF and an iCut file See Export Production Files on page 31 e Document Setup opens the Document Setup dialog box See Document Setup on page 20 e Exit Closes the application Note The history list of file names provides fast access to recently used files Simply click one of the names to open the file Exporting to a PostScript File You can export your layout to a PostScript file You can indicate whether the PostScript f
154. inside the sheet file Caution Tip When inks are changed in external files PLA files should be opened and saved 2 3 7 Shuttle Shuttle allows to connect to an EskoArtwork server Automation Engine 10 Nexus or Odystar It allows to submit the current job to a workflow queue and to monitor jobs running on the server All Shuttle functionality can be found e n the Shuttle toolbar Window gt Toolbars gt Shuttle The toolbar contains the Submit button and the Shuttle window button e n the Shuttle window Window gt Shuttle A full explanation on Shuttle can be found in the Shuttle documentation available on the EskoArtwork Documentation DVD 19 ESKOS 20 i cut Layout 3 Creating a SmartNest Layout With i cut Layout s SmartNest tool you can create intuitive layouts that make optimal use of the available sheet i cut Layout can generate layouts to find the ultimate layout for your purpose 3 1 Document Setup When you create a new layout you need to feed i cut Layout with vital information as e g the size of the sheet and the position of the margins on the sheet You can do this in the Document Setup To create a new layout file 1 Click File gt New and the Document Setup dialog box will appear x General Plate amp Sheet Select Job lt None gt Select oe Job File Format PDF Layout Name Juntitled M Use Template Ea defaut Select Units han Origi fT Go To change th
155. ion to ignore inks that have 12 i cut Layout e adensity lower than a certain value e adensity higher than a certain value e a Luminance higher than a certain value as in all those cases the Moire patterning will hardly be visible All these Moire Detection options are stored in the Press Settings See Define Press Settings Viewer Compare Tool You can use the Viewer Compare tool to compare the active document with another document To compare the active job 1 Goto Window gt Esko gt Viewer gt Compare The Compare dialog opens and the name for the Current Document is shown Compare Documents to Compare Current Document file ai _ Cancel Compare To file Lai B Browse Compare What Entire Document 2 Select the file you want to compare the active document to e If you want to compare it to an open document select its file name from the dropdown list e If you want to compare it to a document on disk click the browse button and select the file 3 Define what to compare e all artwork e the current Artboard e only Trim Box or Media Box if they are defined e only the selected area 4 Click OK A Viewer Compare window will open showing a comparison between the two jobs Note If you have a Trim Box defined in the Illustrator job the Viewer Compare tool will only show what s inside the trim box The Viewer Compare window The Viewer Compare window shows the two job
156. ip The Workspace Manager allows you to make some predefined workspaces of the user interface dialog boxes and switch from one to another in one single click See Workspace 9 2 1 Status Bar The Status Bar at the bottom of the window consists of 3 parts ea i cut Layout Plate Size Dibond 2 00 1i 2000 0s1000 0 mm waste 2 In the first part you can see the sheet size the waste percentage for the currently selected layout If a Sheet Preset is used its name is shown next to Sheet Size You can select a Sheet Preset from the dropdown menu See Sheet Presets SmatMarks untitled Quick Masks up to date In the second part the SmartMark and Quick Mask indicators show the currently selected SmartMark set and the state of the Quick Masks See Working with SmartMarks and Adjusting overlapping Graphics 2067 521 244 957 mam ats jva_dell The third part indicates the position of the cursor and displays the unit in which your job is set The server icon S indicates to which Esko Automation Engine server you are connected Note You cannot change units while working in a job In order to change units select Preferences on the Edit menu and select the correct unit in the Defaults tab Changes will become effective when creating a new layout 9 2 2 Tools These tools are the interactive tools that you use to build a sheet You can open and close the toolbar via the Toolbars gt Tools selection on the Win
157. iple Documents i cut Layout Trial and Licenses Licensing for Studio Designer in PackEdge ArtPro and Plato is included in the licensing for PackEdge ArtPro and Plato For more information see the licensing chapter in the corresponding manual Studio Designer Basics To get started with Studio Designer you need a document with a structural design file placed into it If the current document does not contain a structural design file the Studio window will look like this Studio Scene Remove The document does not have a structural design D S ya 5m s SS gt e iS 30O licious drinks eo 229 OF fan 5 J W S FH Above you can see how a structural design file is show as a 2D representation Open the Studio window to see the 3D view 163 EE eskos came The Studio Window The Studio window is the heart of Studio Designer It is a floating palette where you can see the three dimensional shape of the package To view the Studio window choose Production gt Studio Designer Orientation lal Be E Note If the placed ARD file does not contain folding angles the plug in cannot know how the box has to be folded In that case 90 degree foldings are assumed on all folding lines If the resulting shape is not the intended one the proper folding angles need to be added to the ARD file for example using ArtiosCAD or Studio Toolkit for Boxes Re
158. is effect penetrates into the midtones Typically plate making is configured in such a way that the mid tones print like an offset press Note If you do not specify Dot Gain In Highlights you will not be able to use the following Viewer viewing mode Flexo Print Preview Limited Total Area Coverage The Total Area Coverage is the sum of percentages of the different channels on the same location A higher total area coverage means more of the various inks is printed on top of each other If you want you can specify the Maximum Total Area Coverage to specify the maximum amount of ink that the substrate can take on the same spot on your press Note Exceeding the Maximum Total Area Coverage for the press may cause drying problems unexpected color results and other problems 145 EE eskos came Registration Error Specifies the average maximum Registration Error on your press If you enable this option in the Press Settings you can use the Registration Errors preview in Viewer to check whether your trapping is sufficient to compensate for possible registration errors on the press Moire Settings In the Moir Detection settings of the Press Settings you can define the default values for the settings in the Moire Detection window For more info on the different settings see Moire Detection The Viewer window Viewing options Options particular to certain Viewer previews are grouped under View Options You can expand or
159. is set on 1 gigabyte Convert text to contours all text will be contourized Workaround Options Skip Images Check this box to open the EPF file without linking to external images or converting embedded images Disable optimizations Vignettes recognition and optimization for Photoshop Multitone images are performed whenever possible when this option is not activated Sometimes after updating your DTP applications Esko can no longer perform the optimization and the conversion of the E PS file might fail Switching this option ON will allow you to import the E PS file Show PS Comments All PS comments present in the EPF file are displayed on screen Optimize Illustrator Patterns into PostScript patterns llustrator writes patterns in a different way than PostScript does default behavior is that Illustrator patterns will be optimized Normally this speeds up the further processing less linework in your file sometimes though the optimization itself may take some time Use PostScript rules for color conversion Check this box to make sure that all color management will happen using PostScript rules in stead of BGCMS Recognize ArtScreen Ipi angle Check this box and the application will try to recognize screens that are created in ArtPro applications and swap them to Esko Graphics screens If a E PS or PDF file with an unknown ArtScreen is imported an error will be generated For more information please refer to the ScreenFilter user man
160. isabled See Transform tool for transformations that are allowed on i cut Layout objects If no object is selected all fields are disabled e The Location and Size fields display information about the die if either a CAD layout or a Graphic are selected For example if a Graphic is selected the size in the Transform Window will display the location and size of the die regardless of any bleed included in the Graphic The same is true for a CAD layout This functionality makes it easy to accurately locate the first cut of the die at a specific location e fthe current selection includes multiple objects some that contain dies and some that do not the location and size fields display values for the bounding box that encloses all the selected objects e SmartMarks can be moved either interactively or numerically However the rotation angle of SmartMarks cannot be changed with either of these methods However the orientation of most SmartMarks can be determined by means of their parameters If you need to rotate a SmartMark double Click the mark and change its parameters in the corresponding dialog Please refer to the chapter Using the Transform Window for more information on how to use the Transform options 9 1 10 Help menu While you are learning or working with i cut Layout you may want to consult other Help features i cut Layout has Balloon Help to get you up and running as quickly as possible Balloons appear when you point
161. ish Inks White Underprint Settings Click Define Color to define a custom color Custom colors can be defined in four ways e By Ink Number e By Ink Name e By Color Name e Random CMYK color Define Color Ei Define Color by lek Mumberz Ink Numbers To define a Custom Color by means of an ink number select Ink Numbers from the dropdown list The inks that are used in the current document are displayed Activate the ink by clicking the check area in front of the ink and its value will be set to 100 You can click the value if you want to change the percentage The color patch will show you the resulting color Define Color by Jink Numbers Y Define Color by Ink Numbers i Define Color by Jink Numbers gt Ink Numbers gt v Ink gt p D Panta Color Name MB PANTONE 195C E PANTONE 115C Ink 4 unused Tip drag a color swatch from the Colors palette to the color sample at the top right 4 v MB PANTONE 191C MM PANTONE 195C PANTONE 115C Ink 4 unused 100 Tip drag a color swatch from the Colors palette to the color sample at the top right v E PANTONE 191C mA I PANTONE 195C E PANTONE 115C Ink 4 unused Ink 5 unused Ink 5 unused Ink 5 unused Ink 6 unused Ink 6 unused Ink unused Ink 7 unused x Ink 8 unused Ink 8 unused Ink 9 unused Ink 9 unused Define Color by Ink N
162. istance can be used to go a little bit to the inside of the cut path and start cloning from that point Force Cloning will force this way of creating bleed even if there is pixel information available on outside the cut path This can be used e g if the image was cut out on a different wrong background 5 2 3 White Underprint To create a white background 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 Make sure the white underprint ink is available in the ink list in the Sheet view Define the white underprint ink in the ink dialog before opening the white underprint dialog 2 Select Preparation gt White Underprint White Underprint Distance 10 200 Ink White Comers gt gt Mitered AT ESKO came 3 Set the Direction Do you want the White Underprint to be smaller i or bigger than the original object 4 Define the distance between the edge of the White Underprint layer and the edge of the object under which White Underprint is applied 5 Select the ink for the white underprint area 6 Set the corner type and miter ratio 7 Click Create Tip If no objects are selected the white underprint will be generated under all objects You can however select in green the objects under which a white underprint area needs to be created Objects selected in blue will be ignored by the white Und
163. itamins amp minerals vphl _ s E a Pedigree s 4 a g i pa _ aly fe edieg quantity Ie cord 5 T ex An AE Selection Ji 2 OOE 171 ESKO i cut Layout a In this example the placed structural design file is a Collada file of a single can The two other loaded scenes are Collada files made in ArtiosCAD or Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves featuring that same can You can switch quickly between the loaded scenes from the drop down list This can help you to improve the artwork by seeing it in all of its different contexts Remove Scene 2 You can remove items from the list by selecting Remove This will free up memory but will not delete the files The files that are placed in an illustrator document cannot be removed unless you close the document first STUDIO Scen OneUp Sleeved zae Orientation Load Scene Remove is Back side and Double sided Artwork When you place or open a structural design it is loaded with the front side facing towards you typically the outside of the box The Studio window will show the artwork in this document on the front side of the board For ArtiosCAD structural design files you can also show artwork on the back side of the board typically the inside of the box This feature works only for ArtiosCAD files The Studio Window can show artwork on both sides e The front and back artwork must be in two differe
164. k the Move tool to activate the fly out toolbar Select the appropriate tool and to enter a step value if needed i cut Layout Scale hove k x Step 1 000 Step Amount Rotate Draw Shape tool Use the Draw Shapes tool to create rectangles ovals and polygons Shapes that are designated as Registration color or darkest color will update when inks are added to the sheet You can use shapes to add new inks to the sheet Shapes can be transformed like any other object There is no limit to the number of shapes in one sheet 1 Click the Draw Rectangle button on the toolbar 2 Select the type of shape you would like to create Squares Rectangle A ec ee Open Closed E 5 es Polygon Ellipse 3 The Style window allows you to set the parameters for the mark that you create You can choose whether your mark has a Fill a Stroke or both You can choose the colors of the fill and stroke as well as the line width for the stroke You can also set colors in Geometry Marks to overprint other objects Finally you can choose for the color to be Registration color which means that the color contains 100 of all inks in the document To set the Style of a Geometry Mark use the Style dialog box ST i m Normal 100 0 O Overprint M E 0 100 mm ie is Hiotrral a OL es M Gyerprint elf r fli O Group O O t Normal 100 0 4 4 Draw the mark 2r EE Eskos ce 218 To draw a rectangle
165. king on the Opacity Mask button to apply the green selected object as an opacity mask to the red selected object s Note when an object having an opacity mask is transformed moved scaled rotated shear in the document you have the choice to determine how the opacity mask has to behave e Check the Scale Vignette toggle in the Transform tool options dialog to apply the same transformation on the mask object e Uncheck the Scale Vignette toggle to only transform the masked object The mask object will not be transformed Layer Browser You work with layers with the Layer Browser Click Layer Browser on the Window menu Marks Mark up 3 Station Grid Layer 2 CAD Layout Station 1 A 4 layers f stations selected The features of the Layer Browser are detailed below Print a Layers can be set to be printable or non printable Click the Print icon next to each layer to toggle between the two choices Clicking the icon at the top of the Print column toggles all the layers to printable Visibility Layers can be displayed or hidden An eye icon in the box indicates the layer is turned on Click the box to turn the layer on or off The eye button at the top of the column turns all layers off except the current layer A layer that is not displayed cannot be edited and is locked Lock a 205 EE eskos cme 206 Layers can be locked or unlocked A padlock icon indicates the layer is locked and its contents ma
166. king the print icon a 12 7 EE eskos cme 128 ba Separations Tab Use technical inks in output Normally technical inks are hidden when you save a job in an Esko editor But there s a possibility to save the Technical inks as visible This toggle here makes it possible to output the visible non hidden technical inks The inks and separations are listed You can deselect one or more inks the according separation will disappear from the Sheets list Use the Convert to CMYK button to convert PANTONE inks to CMYK values Color Management Convert to e CMYK all inks are converted to CMYK values e Gray all inks are converted to Gray values Use link profile Link profiles describe a transformation from 1 device dependent color space to another This is actually a concatenation of a forward transformation of 1 profile and a backward transformation of another profile This means that all other options will be grayed out as the Link Profile takes complete care of the color management Source profile If any CMYK objects are to be converted choose a source profile The list shows all CMYK print profiles in the color database The source profile defines the target that the destination profile is supposed to match Destination profile Choose a color profile for your destination color space The list shows all print profiles in the color database These profiles are either measured in Kaleidoscope or imported ICC profiles
167. ko Software BVBA Gent Belgium All rights reserved This material information and instructions for use contained herein are the property of Esko Software BVBA The material information and instructions are provided on an AS IS basis without warranty of any kind There are no warranties granted or extended by this document Furthermore Esko Software BVBA does not warrant guarantee or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the software or the information contained herein Esko Software BVBA shall not be liable for any direct indirect consequential or incidental damages arising out of the use or inability to use the software or the information contained herein The information contained herein is subject to change without notice Revisions may be issued from time to time to advise of such changes and or additions No part of this document may be reproduced stored in a data base or retrieval system or published in any form or in any way electronically mechanically by print photoprint microfilm or any other means without prior written permission from Esko Software BVBA This document supersedes all previous dated versions PANTONE PantoneLlIVE and other Pantone trademarks are the property of Pantone LLC All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners Pantone is a wholly owned subsidiary of X Rite Incorporated Pantone LLC 2012 All rights reserved i cut
168. l horizontal offset moves your PostScript file upwards to the right in relation to the bottom right border Specifying a negative vertical horizontal offset moves your PostScript file downwards left in relation to the bottom left border Scale vertical To enter the vertical scale percentage 100 is the original size of the PostScript file i cut Layout Scale horizontal To enter the horizontal scale percentage 100 is the original size of the PostScript file Rotate Forces the system to rotate the PostScript File with the specified angle The origin for rotation is bottom left Possible angles in the drop down list e 0 No rotation is to be performed e 90 Forces to rotate over 90 degrees counterclockwise e 180 Forces to rotate over 180 degrees e 2 0 Forces to rotate over 270 degrees counterclockwise 6 3 7 Other PostScript Import xj Pages Color Management Inks Overprint Images Page Size Uther Output Substitute missing fonts Workaround Options Roman fonts by Courier r Japanese fonts by Rpumin Light X Skip images Preserve Quark trapping Disable optimizations Images Import 1 bit images as Embed CT display images es k Dutput tile dieplay mages Image and thumnail Miscellaneous Device resolution 2400 ppi Virtual memor linnit 50 ME E Convert text to contours Show PS comments Disable OPI Show extemal images searches
169. l remain proportional Entering a vertical size will change the horizontal size and vice versa If you disable the lock you can set different scaling factors for vertical and horizontal scaling e The Cut Path You can set this to the Trim Box to any of the inks which can be used if the file contains a specific die cut ink or to Undefined If a Cut Path was created or selected in Graphic view see Defining the Cut Path the Cut Path will be Manual e The Dimensions of the Graphic e The Bleed 5 1 2 Back 39 i cut Layout AmericanCars_ pdt Bias General Back Trim Box amp Margins Use same graphic on back Previous l Next The Back tab allows to set the back side for the Graphic As soon as one Graphic has a defined back side the layouts for the back side can also be generated Use same graphic on back allows to set the same graphic for the front and the back side Flip Horizontally will mirror the graphic on the back side The Type either a File or a Placeholder see Working with Placeholders The Name of the file and a browse button to select another file 5 1 3 Trim Box and Margins AO i cut Layout AmericanCars_ pdt Preview General ack Trim Box amp Margins AmencanCars_2 pat Trim Box WH S00 0004 x 542 731 mm Media Box Margins Top 0 0 mm Bottom 0 0 mm The Trim Box amp Margins tab shows the dimensions of the Trim Box and the margins for the other page boxes defin
170. lada file has multiple printable parts Please choose the one to use Designi M3 PA fj Design2 M3 PA C Design3 M3 PA Cancel COK To see the object in the Studio Window with artwork on all the printable parts organize your artwork in a different document for each part Use the same structural design file in every document and select the corresponding part When opening all the documents one by one the Studio window will automatically show the different documents as artwork on the different parts 00 Front Label 196 CMYK Preview i j sed AS ee et at yy aK a o acm ieee Home made Pasta Sauce Hi QUICK amp TASTEFULL ITALIAN PASTA LUNCH a A a aA W Home made Pasta Sa Working with multi part structures from ArtiosCAD In ArtiosCAD you can also build structures with more than one printable part This section describes how to handle these in Studio Designer Multi Part ARD files If all the parts are in the same board material it is possible to save them into one ArtiosCAD ARD file Like any other ARD file you can open it in a PackEdge document Like any other ARD file you can import it in an ArtPro document Studio Designer will show the composition in 3D In this case the artwork is organized in one document Multiole ARD Files 174 i cut Layout Ee In ArtiosCAD it is also possible to combine multiple files into a 3D composition
171. lections are always shown in Cross and Contour display modes regardless of this setting Color tab Default Document Profile choose the default profile from the list Monitor Profile choose a monitor profile from the list Check Warn when placing files with another document profile to have the system display a warning when placing PDF files that have other document profiles embedded Files Shortcuts Serwer Resources Licenses Offcuts General Defaults View Color Editing Defaut Document Profile crom_offs Monitor Profile calibrator i Ff no document profile is set the default profile will be used lf Wam when placing files with another document profile i cut Layout Editing tab The Editing tab sets i cut Layout s defaults for editing These defaults do not change the structure of your document they only change your interaction with the application when editing files Files Shortcuts Server amp Resources Licenses Offcuts General Defaults View Color Editing Cursor Drag Delay 0 Pan Overlap 75 Shift and drag select reverses the selection Create polygons by One mouse click click the topteft comer of the polygon and drag the desired size of the polygon f Two mouse clicks click both the topeft and the bottam ight comer of the polygon Gravity defines the distance in screen pixels where gravity or snap is in effect The higher the value the easier an obj
172. lick hold and drag the mouse spline segments will be added Note e Once you have set the parameters for the Drah Shape tool you can close the Style dialog All shapes that you create with the tool will use the parameters that you set in the dialog e Shapes can be transformed using the Transform tool on the toolbar or the Transform window e If you want to change the parameters for a Shape that you have created already double click it The Style dialog box for the selected shape will appear Draw Cut Path Tool In Graphic View mode use the Draw Cut Path tool to draw cut path contours for your Graphic The Graphic View s default die is a rectangle or a square if the height and width are the same But some jobs are not this shape You can use the Draw Cut Path tool to create die contours that are rectangular or square oval or round or a polygon You are not limited to a single die contour you can create multiple contours to create a more complex die All contours created with the Draw Cut i cut Layout Path tool are die cut lines Die contours can be transformed with the Transform tools to create the exact shape and size that you need Clean Cut Path Tool ie eleta x a Cut Path and Redraw Shortest Part To cut away the smallest part of the contour and to add the contour segment s that you draw to the largest part Click to indicate a point on or close to the cut path it will snap and redraw a segment which can consist of d
173. lick the Simulate Again button 151 EE eskos cue In the example above you can see a small area of a job in regular preview left and with registration errors right In this case you can clearly see no trapping was applied so white lines appear at the registration shifts Breakout A Breakout is an area where the percentage of a single separation is lower than the First Visible Dot value This can be used to track areas that won t show up on print because the values are too low Your printer should provide you with the First visible Dot value The First visible dot is set in the Press Settings see Define Press Settings When switching to Breakout mode the preview will be dimmed and all areas where a single separation has a value lower than the First Visible Dot value but higher than 0 will be displayed in highlight color You can measure the actual percentages in that specific area using the densitometer see Measure Ink Densities Moire Detection Moire Detection allows to detect possible screening problems Moire in the file You can set the options to highlight overlapping areas to detect situations in which Moire might occur e when the two overlapping areas have screening angles that do not differ 30 degrees e when the two overlapping areas have the same angle e when the two overlapping areas have different rulings e when the two overlapping areas have different dot shapes You can use the Ignore inks opt
174. ll the offcut sheets Sheet Presets l X Sheets Offcuts Substrates Nem Forex 191592 1906 9 520 0 mm Fores Forex 240459 2400 0 579 9 mm Forex Delete Delete All Close By clicking the New button you can create a new Offcut sheet by entering its name material height and width x Mame Untitled Substrate PO Height 1000 000 mm width 1000 000 mm Count ME OF Cancel 4 4 Offcut Preferences In the Preferences you can define the Minimum Width or Height for an Offcut Sheet the Safety Margin and the Font Weight and Size for the name of the Offcut Sheet to be printed on the Offcut Sheet 36 View Color Editing General Defaults Ofcuts Files Shortcuts Server amp Resources Licenses Minimum Width or Height 500 000mm Safety Margin f10 000mm Font Hevetica tsi Weight Roman ka Upright Size fizt i cut Layout 3 ESKO came 5 Working with Graphics Arranging Graphics on the sheet is the primary purpose of i cut Layout This section will provide you with the basics of working with Graphic files You will learn all settings and functions that can be used on a single Graphic Note For some of these functions the Graphic must be selected in Graphic View To open a Graphic in Graphic view just double click it in the Graphics list in the Graphics tab of the SmartNest window 5 1 Graphic Settings The Graphic Settings can be opened by selecting
175. menu 9 1 10 Help menu 9 2 Toolbars 9 2 1 Status Bar 9 2 2 Tools 9 2 3 View Selector Contents TEM S PENE EEEE REENA attests ee E EEA a on ee deeming nee 161 ESKO cme 1 Preface 1 1 Welcome to i cut Layout i cut Layout is a nesting application to efficiently match graphic designs with the available substrate i cut Layout nests jobs based on size shape and ordered quantities placing designs as tightly as possible onto the substrate minimizing waste and thus reducing production costs i cut Layout also reduces preparation times dramatically for operator intensive tiling jobs particularly for specially shaped large format displays and substrates that require milling It fully automates the digital printing and the finishing by reading the printed barcodes with the camera on the finishing device 1 2 Who is this guide aimed at This user manual is intended for people with a good preknowledge of the use of the Windows operating system and have just started using i cut Layout You will find all the necessary information you need to make you feel at ease working with the application It is meant to be equally helpful to first time users and skilled operators for whom the Function after function chapter will be very informative who might need a little extra assistance from time to time This manual is a paper version of the online help you can find in the application 1 3 Copyright Notice Copyright 2012 Es
176. mm 2 000 mm Main Direction Horizontal F Single cut mark in main direction Enter the Offset Vertical and Horizontal the line Thickness and the Main Direction Set the Single cut mark in main direction if necessary 112 i cut Layout Ey Inks See Setting Inks in SmartMarks 8 3 7 Image Mark The image mark allows you to enter a CT LP LC GRS or Normalized PDF file as a mark e Monochrome images Can be placed in one or all inks of the job with or without step e LP LC monochrome CT e PDF files containing only one ink e Normalized PDF files containing more than one ink e Colored images Can be placed in their original inks or can be inkmapped to the job s inks e CMYK and multichannel CT files e GRS files containing more than one ink The Image Mark dialog box has three tabs e Image e Inks e Position Tip E The Image Mark can be moved in your job by simply using the Move tool ki in the Tools toolbar The Position parameters Offset will automatically reflect the changes Image Image Inks Position Hame Scale hooo To fit to the Sheet Clip or Repeat the Image Vertically Extend 0 000 mm Horizontally Extend 0 000 mm Name Enter the name of the Image Mark you want to use or click the browse button to browse to a Normalized PDF GRS LC or LP file 113 ES eEskos came Tip If you want to incorporate SmartNames in your file name click the SmartNames button
177. mple at the top right iy to the color sample at the top right y When building SmartMarks using a custom color in an empty document the color patch shows the color unknown Ink 5 unused Ink 6 unused Ink 7 unused Co KT x Define Color by Ink Numbers Y Define Color by ink Numbers v Ink gt v Ink gt 7 Ink 1 unused I v Ink 1 unused 20 Ink 2 unused v Ink 2 unused 40 Ink 3 unused v Ink 3 unused 60 Ink 4 unused v Ink 4 unused 80 Ink 5 unused Ink 6 unused Ink 7 unused Ink 8 unused Ink 8 unused Ink 9 unused Ink 9 unused Ink 10 unused Ink 10 unused Ink 11 unused Ink 11 unused Ink 12 unused Ink 12 unused Tip drag a color swatch From the Colors palette Tip drag a color swatch From the Colors palette to the color sample at the top right to the color sample at the top right Za 4 Ink Name When you select Ink Name from the dropdown list only the inks that are used in the current document are displayed Activate the ink by clicking the check area in front of the ink and its value will be set to 100 You can click the value if you want to change the percentage The color patch will show you the resulting color 1OZ Define Color by ink Names YY Define Color by Ink Names gt Define Color by ink Names y Ink Yo gt Vv Ink Yo gt
178. n you cannot redo it anymore or in other words redo only works immediately after an undo action Delete To delete an object or a group of objects Cut To delete selected red objects from their current position in order to paste them into another position Copy To copy objects selected in red in order to paste them into another position i cut Layout e Duplicate To duplicate any group of object s at it exact location You can move the duplicate to a new location The original object is kept e Paste To paste cut or copied objects from the clipboard e SelectAll To select all objects within a job The objects are displayed in red to indicate selection and can be manipulated or modified e Preferences To define standard settings to be used by the application as you work on a job Preferences All i cut Layout modules have various preferences that you can set You set or change your preferences by clicking Preferences on the Edit menu 1 On the Edit menu click Preferences 2 Select the tab that contains the settings that you would like to change 3 Click OK to save your changes Selecting Cancel will discard any changes you have made since the last OK and will close the Preferences dialog box Selecting Reset will reset all settings in all tabs to the application defaults The Preferences dialog box has seven tabs General Defaults View Color Editing Files Sh
179. n exiting the application After starting up i cut Layout all user interface dialog boxes will take the position they had when exiting Save Workspace x Name Untitled Save Cancel Tip All toolbars on the Window menu can either be used as docked tools or as proper dialog boxes Manage Workspace The Workspace Layout Manager allows you to make some predefined workspaces of the user interface dialog boxes and to switch from one to another with a single click The positions of all open palettes and dialog boxes are saved when exiting the application You can start with default palette positions or restore default positions You can also save multiple layouts as different workspaces i cut Layout Ee Manage Workspace x Rename Delete Align Click Align on the Window menu to open the Align dialog box a wl te oo ss Pom i Press INSERT to Make Selection Green Align Align Align ta Sheet by Attribute Edge to Edge Align to Sheet The Align to Sheet section aligns the center of a red selection to the center of the sheet These options do not use green selection a Iel Center horizontally on Sheet Aligns the center of the red selection to the center of the sheet from top to bottom O T Center vertically on Sheet Aligns the center of the red selection to the center of the sheet from left to right Align by Attribute The Align by Attribute section aligns the attribute of th
180. n the Tools toolbar Text Inks Position Mirrored W Automatic Size T 0 000 rir Tart 0 000 mm Style Smart Text Advanced Check the Mirrored box if you want your text to appear mirrored When choosing Automatic Size quadding modes will be ignored and the size of the box will depend on the size of the text Deselect Automatic Size to be able to enter text box dimensions yourself Click Style to format your text Click Smart Text if you want to use smart text INKS For the basic Ink settings see Setting Inks in SmartMarks Text Inks Position Ink E Registration Select Inks Overprint Opaque ignore Similar Inks Ignore Technical Inks Ignore Yarnizh Inks White Underprint Settings i cut Layout ES With Step repeats the mark in various inks with a step between each repetition Position The Position tab is identical to the Position tab of the Image Mark dialog box 123 EE Eskos came 9 Menus and Toolbars 9 1 Menus The menu bar contains commands available in the current module Not all commands on all menus may be available availability depends on the options purchased and the active tool File Edit View Arrange Graphic Inks Tools Production Window Help 9 1 1 File menu 124 The File menu contains following items New offers you the possibility to create a new layout See Document Setup Open allows you to open an exist
181. nds that are available in the current module Not all commands in all menus may be available Availability depends on the options purchased and the active tool Note All the toolbars can be opened via the Window menu gt Toolbars Tip The Workspace Layout Manager allows you to make some predefined workspaces of the user interface dialog boxes and switch from one to another in one single click Tip All toolbars of the Window menu can either be used as docked tools or as proper dialog boxes 2 3 5 Entering information Many of the dialog boxes expect you to enter information You usually do this by typing on the keyboard To edit a value in a dialog box click the field and enter a new value Clicking a field once selects the entire contents of the field Clicking a field twice will insert the cursor into the existing value in the field and allow you to edit it There are two other ways to work with dialog boxes that you may not have seen before e Dragging numbers e Using smart edit fields Dragging numbers i cut Layout allows you to drag a number between two dialog boxes Sometimes you might want to use a value from one dialog box in another For example you might want to take some measurements from within your document and then use that measured value as an entry in the Transform dialog box To drag a number from one dialog box to another 1 Click and drag the number that you want to use The cursor turns into the pointi
182. ng conversion of RGB objects CMYK and Gray The CMYK objects in a PostScript or PDF file may be tagged with a Color Profile The color percentages of untagged objects will always be preserved For tagged objects users have a choice e Ignore tags preserve percentages the Color Profile tag will be ignored the percentages will be those of the object s color e Convert preserve appearance the objects color profile will be taken into account this means that their color values will change The Gray objects in a PostScript or PDF file may be tagged with a Color Profile The color percentages of untagged objects will always be preserved For tagged objects users have a choice e Ignore tags preserve percentages the Color Profile tag will be ignored the percentages will be those of the object s color e Convert preserve appearance the objects color profile will be taken into account this means that their color values will change 6 3 3 Inks 66 The Inks Separations tab depends on the output type you selected in the Color Management tab If you choose CMYK Composite or Composite the Inks tab will be visible if you choose separated output the Separations tab will be visible i cut Layout PostScript Import x Pages Color Management Inks Overprint Images Page Size Other Output Use rulings angles and dot gain compensation fram PostScript file if available Apply screen swap table lt Non
183. ng hand icon 2 Drag the number to the edit field of another dialog box and release the mouse button The value is copied from the first dialog box to the second 17 ESKO cme Using smart edit fields Many of i cut Layout s dialog boxes contain smart edit fields You can recognize smart edit fields by their display they always contain the current units label after the value in the field i 066 800 mm Smart edit fields have two important properties First you can change the current units used to display the field s value at any time Second you can use the smart edit field to calculate a new value for the field To change the current units that are used to display the field s value 1 Click the field to select its contents Everything in the field is selected 2 Type the units that you would like to use Type in for inches and mm for millimeters 3 Press Enter The field s value is now displayed in the units that you typed The field will continue to use the unit of measure that you chose until you change it again Note that other fields in the same dialog box will be displayed in the previous units until you change them To change the default units used throughout the application see the Defaults tab in the Preferences dialog box To use the smart edit field to calculate a new value 1 Click the field twice to insert the cursor after the unit of measure If the cursor is not in the right place use the arrow keys to
184. ng on Default in the Viewer dialog s fly out menu and edit it using Press Settings Creating a Press Setting To create a Press Setting in Viewer 143 EE ceskog 144 Select Press Settings in the fly out menu Click New in the Press Settings dialog Enter the name of the new press setting in the New dialog Click OK A N Copying a Press Setting To copy duplicate a Press Setting Select it in the Press Settings dialog Click the Copy button Give ita new Name A O N Change its parameters as you wish see The Press Settings in Detail 5 Click OK Editing a Press Setting To edit a Press Setting 1 Select it in the Press Settings dialog 2 Click the Modify button 3 Change its parameters as you wish see The Press Settings in Detail 4 Click OK Deleting a Press Setting To delete a Press Setting 1 Select it in the Press Settings dialog 2 Click the Delete button 3 Confirm that you want to delete it Attention Deleting Press Settings might also affect other workstations Choosing aPress Setting e To select a Press Setting click on it in the Viewer dialog s fly out menu The Press Settings in Detail First Dot Note i cut Layout Specifies which minimal gray value expressed in in the file still will yield a dot on the plate provided the RIP and platemaking occur under normal conditions Normal conditions indicate that the
185. not be shown Any part of the graphic that is under the red transparent area will be not be visible or printable The inside of the mask will allow the graphic to show through You can add specific panels to the mask by clicking on them Each time you click inside a panel it is added to the mask i cut Layout Ee The selection of a panel can be undone by clicking the Undo button on the Create Bleed Mask window The selection of panels is undone in the reverse order in which they were selected When there are no panels to undo the Undo button is disabled Note Adding or removing panels is only applicable when using graphics containing a CAD as a cut path To complete a mask click the close box of the Create Bleed Mask options window or simply click any other tool in the toolbar You can redo the mask at any time by selecting the Create Bleed Mask tool again The previous mask will be discarded and a new mask will be created e Drawing a mask e Deleting a mask e Replacing a mask Drawing a mask To mask the graphic Click the Create Bleed Mask button on the toolbar Enter a bleed amount Click in the document window on any panels that you want to exclude from the mask Click the Close button in the title bar A ND You can use the Create Bleed Mask tool at any time even if you use Placeholders The example above contains Placeholders If you import a graphic later the mask will be applied automatically to the
186. nt documents i cut Layout EE e n both documents the same ArtiosCAD structural design file must be placed or two ArtiosCAD files with identical size e The ArtiosCAD info must be flipped in one of the documents A fast and easy way to add graphics to the inside or back side is to double click the inside or back side panel creating a new file for the inside A OO gt front ai 25 CMYK Preview n _ back ai 25 CMYK Preview UOJ4 LU UOJ4 1U ta a peg JDE 4 UOJ4 U0J4 HIC HOC 4 UOJ4 UOJ 4 UOJ4 UOJ j UOJ4 U014 d peg peg J d AE peg H dq APE peg A a a eg Jpeg Jpeg Hd eg Jpeg Jpeg Hd md RF d 8d 7 au a ee a 25 EE Selection Selection Double click a panel to display it in the document window CHa a F l Ha Collada files with Multiple Printable Parts Some of the Studio Toolkits can produce Collada files with more than one printable part e A bottle with two labels created by Studio Toolkit for Labels e A multi pack shrink sleeve created by Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves ArtiosCAD can also output structures with multiple printable parts There is a slightly different workflow for ArtioSCAD files that will be explained in the next chapter When you use a Collada file with multiple printable parts you can only choose one printable part to place 173 ESKO i cut Layout Printable Part The Col
187. ntation buttons in the right top of the Studio Window We will add some text to this panel that also needs to extend into the other panel i cut Layout Ee We will now copy the text double click the other panel in the Studio Window where you would like the text to be pasted paste the text rotate it and position it correctly on the guide 9 1 9 Window menu The Window menu contains following items e Workspace allows you to create predefined workspaces e Toolbars allows you to view and hide individual Toolbars e Align opens the Align dialog box e Colors opens the Colors dialog box e Effects opens the Effects dialog box 195 EE eskos cum 196 e Layer Browser opens the Layer Browser e Messages opens the nfo Window e Pan Window opens the Pan window e Shuttle opens the Shuttle window e Style opens the Style dialog box e Transform opens the ransform dialog box e Hide All will hide all opened dialog boxes Workspace It is possible to save for each opened dialog box and palette its position size and some dialog specific settings like e g the width and visibility of the columns in the SmartNest dialog box This kind of information is saved in a workspace e Default switches back to the factory default e Save e Manage Save Workspace Save a workspace and use Manage to rename or delete previously saved workspaces Saving stores the positions of all open palettes and dialog boxes whe
188. ntioned in the PDF Reference Manual in case of PDF Overprinting default is non zero overprinting Prevents overprinted objects with zero CMYK values from knocking out CMYK objects beneath them PostScript Overprint To set the overprint mode that the conversion needs to apply when importing the file e Convert into Opaque Ignores any overprint of your job e Convert to Darken Esko Converts all overprint present in your PostScript job to Darken e Keep Postscript Overprint All PS overprint present in the job is imported correctly This is the default setting Note The preferred setting is Keep PS Overprint This will result in faster conversion when outputting the job to PS EPS PDF Pure Black Io set the overprint mode for objects containing 100 black only Possible Pure Black overprint modes in the drop down list e As Other Colors As it is defined in the job i cut Layout 6 e Force Opaque masking Forces Opaque for objects in 100 black and knocking out all underlying inks e Force Postscript Overprint Forces PostScript overprint for objects in 100 black e Force Darken Esko Forces Darken for ALL objects in 100 black The black color is printed on top of other colors instead of erasing the color underneath Caution There are two problems e Sometimes ink saturation can occur 100 black text on a 100 red this is 100 magenta and 100 yellow background results in three inks printed at 100
189. o use Click Production gt SmartMarks or click SmartMarks in the status bar and you can begin to add marks i cut Layout ES SmartMarks 8 2 1 Adding a SmartMark Adding a SmartMark is easy Even though each individual mark contains its own set of parameters the basic procedure for adding a mark to a job is the same To add a SmartMark 1 On the Production menu click SmartMarks The SmartMarks window will appear 2 Click the Add Mark button Im The Add SmartMark dialog box appears listing the available marks Add SmartMark Crease Mark Dimension Line Ellipse Eyelet Mark Gradation Strip Bar Code Rectangle Standard Strip Text Mark 3 Click the name of the mark that you want to use The options dialog box for the mark you selected will appear 4 Set the options as required for your job 5 Click OK You can use Apply to preview the mark before clicking OK If the mark is not exactly what you want you can make changes to the dialog box and click Apply again The mark s name appears in the Marks list The name will be selected in the list or ES eskos cme Whenever a mark name is selected in the SmartMarks window the mark that is created by that mark will also be selected in the document window This helps you to identify which mark definition creates a particular mark in the job 8 2 2 Deleting a SmartMark You can delete a SmartMark in various ways First you can
190. oba Mark There are 4 general SmartMarks installed with i cut Layout e Image Mark e Rectangle e Barcode e Text Mark 8 3 1 i cut Marks i cut marks are added to the layout in order to make sure that the cut contour perfectly matches the printed graphics cut marks are a type of registration marks which will be scanned by the camera system on the cut enabled Kongsberg table 105 ES eskos came 106 SmartMark Options i cut Marks s Mark Bar Code Inks Type Filed Circle Size j6 000mm fel 000mm Around Nested Layout WW here On Bounding Bos Position Top Botton Quantity Bo Marks Mark The marks tab consists of two parts The top part allows you to specify the parameters of the marks Type Select the type of mark you want to add to the layout You can choose between a filled circle or an outlined circle with a knockout white center Size Select the size of the mark diameter Stroke width Select the appropriate stroke This option will only be active if an outlined circle has been selected from the type list Distance Specify the minimum distance between the marks and the cut path Note The Place Mark tool A allows you to manually add marks The pointer will assume a different shape depending on the selected type When pressing Ctrl a plus sign will be indicated next to the pointer and the mark will be placed on all copies of the selected Graphic When
191. ommand the left edge of the sheet becomes the right edge of the sheet on the back e Tumble Front to Back will rotate the sheet around the horizontal center of the sheet and create the back of the file With this command the top of the sheet becomes the bottom of the sheet on the back e Delete Back deletes the back side of the sheet e Tiling allows you to apply tiling to the selected Graphic See Tiling Graphics e Jigsaw Tiling allows you to apply advanced tiling to the selected Graphic See Jigsaw Tiling e Sheet Presets opens the Sheet Presets See Sheet Presets 9 1 8 Production menu The Production menu contains following item e SmartMarks opens the SmartMarks dialog box See Working with SmartMarks e Studio Designer opens the Studio Designer window See Studio Designer Studio Designer Studio Designer offers a 3D viewing environment where designers can see their artwork applied instantly on the packaging It also includes navigation tools and by writing a 3D PDF file from Studio Designer designers can share their ideas with clients for review and approval Studio reduces time consuming mock ups spots design errors faster and takes away the guesswork from 2D flats For folding carton or corrugated packaging the shapes can be supplied by ArtiosCAD or Score The Studio tools in i cut Layout can be found in Production gt Studio Designer 161 EE eskos came 162 Note Studio Designer inside i cut Layout onl
192. on for the layer to toggle between the two choices In the window shown above objects will not snap to the layer named Markup Grid but will snap to objects on the layers named Grid Layer Note Clicking the object name in the Layer Browser does not select the object in the document but selects the object in the list from the Layer Browser e The drag and drop functionality to move object to another position or into another group works on the objects selected in the list Clicking the remove button L will delete the objects selected in the list and not the objects that are selected in the document Setting up several grid layers and then choosing which ones to snap to is useful when creating a complex layout See below for details about creating grid and markup grid layers Messages Window The Messages window displays information that the editor generates about the job Warnings are displayed in orange errors are red i cut Layout You can define the Messages window s behavior Click the black arrow and a the different possibilities pop up e Always pop up Info window e Pop up info window only for errors warnings e Pop up info window only for errors Copy will copy the contents of the Messages dialog and Clear All Messages clears all messages in the dialog box Copy Clear all Messages Always popup Message Window w Popup Message Window only for Warning andor Errors Popup Message Window only for Errors
193. on to the green selection For example the Align Left to Right button on the top aligns the left edge of the red selection to the right edge of the green selection The Align Edge to Edge commands can also be used with a Gap Entering a gap aligns the opposing edges with the specified gap in between them ajc Align Left to Right Aligns the nearest opposite left or right edge of the red selection to the right or left edge of the green selection The opposing edges are aligned leaving the Gap amount specified between them If the Gap amount is zero the opposing edges abut Movement is horizontal only vertical position of the red selection remains unchanged O C Align Top to Bottom Aligns the nearest opposite top or bottom edge of the red selection to the bottom or top edge of the green selection The opposing edges are aligned leaving the Gap amount specified between them If the Gap amount is zero the opposing edges abut Movement is vertical only horizontal position of the red selection remains unchanged For all information on how to use the Align tool please refer to the chapter Using the Align Window Colors In the Colors dialog box you define add or modify colors and vignette colors to be applied to objects i cut Layout Ee The Colors dialog box can only be used in combination with the Geometry Mark tool Note CT x Eee RHEE UOC WE LL L L O00 100 2Puzzle fe Color swatches To d
194. opies of a mark to the same job If you have marks that you add to every job you can save the collection as a SmartMark Set A set can be added to a job to place several marks all at once or you can make it active so it will be applied on every new layout you generate What is a Mark All of the SmartMarks that you add using the SmartMark tool are based on mark macros Macros are scripts that are executed to create the marks that you have specified So instead of simply drawing an object you select a script e g a rectangle mark and specify some parameter settings e g draw in center of sheet in registration ink The mark scripts are executed at certain times to make sure that they are completely up to date with the current job For example when you save or open a file containing SmartMarks the marks are executed Other actions also cause marks to be executed like adding an ink or changing an ink s definition What is a Set A set is a collection of marks that you save using the SmartMarks window A set can contain any number of SmartMark mark definitions After saving a set you can apply all the marks in that set by picking its name from a list of available sets Like the marks themselves you can create and save as many sets as you like This way you can create a customized set of marks that are used for different customers different printing presses and different printing processes 8 2 Using SmartMarks 96 SmartMarks are easy t
195. ors will be exported as a C Y M or K separation The mapping is done based on the Ipi and angle of the spot color If the process Cyan ink has a given Ipi of 120 and angle of 15 a spot color Reflex blue may be mapped to Cyan if in the Paint menu it is given the same Ipi and angle of process Cyan Suffix for PANTONE ink names Enter a suffix the default is C Maximum deviation of resolved curves During the resolving process Bezier curves are sometimes approximated by vectors The maximum allowed deviation of the curves can be entered here 131 EE eskos ce Note When a Esko native file is exported to PostScript certain elements in the job which cannot be translated into PostScript will be resolved in order to get an exact result The same happens when exporting to PDF PDF files however have several destinations and don t always need the high quality resolving because they may only serve as soft proof If you want to obtain even smaller files than what you can get with the PDF for RGB CMYK proofing settings then this workaround option might help When we resolve objects splines are converted to vectors e g line mask The spline only has a 2 points but you need a lot of vector points to describe a curve The resolver default deviation is 0 002 mm but you can reduce the amount of vector points by raising the deviation value and thus reducing the size of the PDF Which values When comparing the default 0 002 1360 kb PDF with 0 02 826
196. ortcuts Server and Resources Licenses 10 Offcuts ONAARWD a General To define general standard settings to be used by the application as you work on a job General Defaults view Color Editing Files Shortcuts ServerbFlesources Licenses Offouts Language Setting Engish Number of Undo Levels fio Number of visible Decimals in Input Bowes Save automatically every Omin Mazinum Memon Usage for Image Data Custom jao E 635 MB i Enter a low value if several applications are running simultaneous on the system Language Setting You can change the language of the user interface by selecting one of the following languages from the list box English French German Spanish Japanese Chinese 133 EE Eskos came 134 Simplified or Chinese Traditional In case you prefer to have the localized online help documentation however you still need to install the language packs Note The editor needs to be restarted before the changes will be effective Number of Undo Levels Defines the minimum number of steps the system remembers for Undo and Redo Enter a value between 0 and 1000 Tip For complex jobs it is best to keep the number low to save memory Number of visible Decimals in Input Boxes Defines the number of decimals displayed in the input boxes Enter a value between 0 and 8 Values are rounded when you enter more digits into an input box than the number defin
197. other For example if your Graphics include a bleed and they are placed on the layout so that they have a common cut the bleeds between the Graphics will overlap The Adjust Masks tool is used to adjust overlapping Graphics 5 4 1 Using Adjust Masks By clicking Adjust Masks the masks will always be split half way between the Graphics even if they will be modified afterwards The masks are not updated in real time but they will be updated just before saving the file The status ofthe masks will be indicated in the Status bar If the masks are not up to date a warning will be displayed CD Masks please adjust Front 5 4 2 Resetting masks When you use the Adjust Masks tool new masks are applied to the Graphics on the sheet You can remove these masks by selecting Reset Masks on the Tools menu When you remove masks from the Graphics in the sheet the Graphics revert to using their original masks as they were created in the Graphic View The Reset Masks command is disabled if there are no modified masks on the current sheet 5 4 3 Checking the status of masks How do you know if your masks are up to date i cut Layout will display masks information in the Status bar lf the masks are not up to date a warning will be displayed GD Masks please adjust Front After adjusting the Quick Masks status will show 49 ESKO cme Quick Maske up to date In fact you can end up in one of these situations 1 Masks up to d
198. ottom of this box consists of four panels coming together If you select Show Face Outlines in the Studio s fly out menu you will see blue lines showing up in your 2D Document Window The solid blue line is a reflection of the selected red panel in the Studio Window The other panels that are coplanar with the selected panel and that together form the bottom face are drawn on top of that in dashed lines If you were to draw some graphics and click Distribute Selection then the graphics would be copied and pasted to the three other panels that are coplanar with the selected one Those three panels are shown with dashed blue lines in the 2D Document Window In the following example we would like a distribute from one panel to another that is adjacent to the first in the Studio Window but they are not at all coplanar On the contrary the angle between the two panels is 90 degrees As automatically distributing will be impossible in this case we will have to do the copying rotating and pasting of the graphics ourselves The Create 3D Guide option can be a solution You could create a 3D Guide in the back inner panel and that is immediately going to create extra guides in the other panels that the guide plane intersects with You could now design your graphics in the back inner panel You do not need to do this upside down as double clicking on the panel in the Studio Window will rotate the whole job You can also rotate your job manually using the orie
199. p becomes unavailable appears dimmed when CMYK Composite Output was chosen Enter the Vertical and or Horizontal distortion in percentages Select SmartMarks from the drop down list Account for Media Box margins To select the margins of the job as the true boundary If you deselect this toggle the borders of the job are taken as the true boundary When you want to output everything that is placed within the margins too leave the option activated Hide trap layer s in output Trap layers will not be included in the output Page range e Output all pages e Output a number of pages Enter page numbers or page ranges separated by commas e g 1 3 5 8 Scale amp Tile e Enter a Scale factor percentage e Fit job on page scales the job so it fits the selected paper size e Shrink oversized jobs to paper size e Select Tile Job to obtain a tiled output if the job is too big to fit on the selected paper size The tiling option which can be used to export a large job to a series of smaller pages tiles allows the user to cycle through the tiles which will be produced and see just how many tiles there are Overlap X mm inches To specify a tiling overlap The value you enter here is the amount of overlap in all four directions between adjacent tiles It defaults to 5 mm Page Setup e Select a paper size from the drop down list The list that appears here is based on the page sizes supported by the selected ppd e Orientation
200. pieces When the PostScript file is printed exposed on some older PostScript Rips hairlines may become visible To avoid this problem activate Suppress Hairlines at Clips Image To Paper Edge To move the origin of the converted job to the lower left corner of the paper or film Activate this toggle to align your job to the edge of the paper or film to use the full area Caution Exporting to a paper PostScript device For most of these devices there is always a border on the output page where nothing can be imaged Parts of your design in that border will be lost Avoid Tabular Number Problems When digits are written as tabular numbers exporting to some PostScript Rips may result in bad positioning of the numbers The tabular numbers are not correctly placed at the text base line To avoid this problem activate Avoid Tabular Number Problems Disable path clipping By default paths are clipped by the borders of the job but there are instances where you do not want the paths to be clipped if so select this toggle Map spot color separations to CMYK This option is intended to export a job containing spot colors to pre separated PostScript for systems which are limited to handling process color separations only e g Scitex Brisque Workflow This option is available when Pre Separated was selected Spot color separations can be handled only on such systems by remapping them to a specific process separation When this toggle is checked spot col
201. placing marks manually the cursor will snap to positions that take into account the distance er from the cut path as set in the distance option The bottom part of the dialog allows you to specify the position of the cut marks Nested Layout Five marks are generated four of which will be put on the four corners of the bounding box of all cut paths A fifth mark is added to make sure that the position is not symmetrical in order to be able to detect possible rotations Around Each Graphic s Cut Path Select this option to positon i cut marks around the different cut paths The marks will be distributed over the entire sheet as evenly as possible The Distance specified above is taken into account as marks are being positioned on the given distance from the cut path i cut Layout will try to guarantee a minimal distance between the individual marks i cut Layout A number of situations can occur 1 Around Each Graphic s Cut Path and On Bounding Box i cut Layout will put cut marks around each cut path taking into account the size of the mark and the minimum distance 2 Around Each Graphic s Cut Path but Distributed Enter the number of marks you want to have placed in the Quantity box i cut Layout will place cut marks all corners of the layout The remaining marks will be distributed over the Graphics taking into account the size of the mark and the minimum distance 3 Around Each Graphic s Cut Path with a
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203. rameters include screen ruling screen angle and dot shape To set the screen ruling for an ink 1 Click the screen ruling field for an ink The contents of the field are highlighted 2 Enter a new screen ruling 3 Press Enter To set the screen angle for an ink 1 Click the screen angle field for an ink The contents of the field are highlighted 2 Enter a new screen angle 3 Press Enter To set the dot shape for an ink 1 Click the screen dot shape field for an ink The contents of the field are highlighted i cut Layout 17 2 Enter a new screen dot shape 3 Press Enter Cleaning up unused inks in a document Your document may contain inks that are no longer being used For example you may have replaced Graphics on the sheet with Graphics that use different inks The old inks from the previous Graphics may still be contained in the document even though they are no longer being used To clean up unused inks 1 Open the Inks dialog box 2 On the fly out menu click Remove Unused Colors and Inks 95 ES eEskos ce Working with smartMarks 8 1 What are SmartMarks SmartMarks are marks used as production controls that automatically update based on changes to the sheet size the sheet size and the number of inks on the sheet You add SmartMarks to your sheet or Graphic using the SmartMarks tool on the Production menu You can add as many marks as you like to your job You can also add multiple c
204. rdinary object Note When the distributed art is a group ungrouping it is equivalent to applying Expand The art does not longer know that it was distributed even if you group it again Exporting Studio Designer offers a variety of export options to a number of common formats Note The background color and other settings defined in the Appearance dialog will show up in your exported file Writing TIFF Images Studio Designer can export the 3D design to an RGB TIFF image with the graphics on top much like the Studio window but at higher resolutions Choose Export from Studio s fly out menu Choose TIFF Image as file type Export Preview File Type TIFF Image H Save As Document Cancel Aspect Ratio Square Width Height 76 2 mm HH Resolution 300 pixels inch HH Ae ss Ey SS J aa Ts Snapshot View Angle Manual HH d 145 fir Perspective 45 Image Size 0 8 megapixel m Include Graphics Transparent Background 184 i cut Layout Ee You can define the Size of the image that you want to export The TIFF image will always be square and will contain the whole package You can specify the size and resolution of the image You also need to specify the View Angle from which the package should be rendered You can either inherit the angle from the Studio window or specify it manually by entering the angles numerically or by clicking and drag
205. ree columns e From Platform Use the drop down list to select a platform from which the files are to be retrieved NT Macintosh Unix or VMS e From path Specify the syntax of the path s of the platform you want to retrieve files from e g Mywork P OSES Gicwjoc Woloil e To Path Define the syntax of the paths so that the destination platform understands e g Mywork P OSES Cie Wee eol Image Creation Path If during normalization extra image data is created you can indicate here where these images should be written If no output directory is specified then CT images generated during the conversion will be saved in the current working directory 6 7 2 Other Images Other EFF Images Import 1 bit images az Embed Miscellaneous Workaround Options Skip images Disable optimizations Show PS comments Virtual memory lirit 128 Sy MB Optimize Illustrator patterns into PostScript patterns Convert text to contours Use PostScript rules for color conversion LaWall Recognize ArtScreen lpi angle IM Place External al Images Import 1 bit images as e Embed Ima ges become internal black and white bitmaps e Linked file Images are imported as external referenced LP files e Contours Images are contourized during import of the E PS file Miscellaneous 19 Re Eskos cme Virtual memory limit default value for the virtual memory is 50MB The limit
206. round the union of all objects in that particular file By selecting Flatten objects the file will be flattened before creating the cut path This will make sure white areas are excluded from the cut path Trace Edges The new cut path will be created based on the selected background color 1 Click the densitometer tool 44 Cut Path pa from Trace Edges KA Background d 0 0 Tolerance Resolution 300 dpi i cut Layout 5 2 Click in the image on the background color The color will be shown in the Background square and its density is shown in percentage 3 Set the tolerance in percentage and the resolution in dpi Cut Path Options By selecting Remove holes the cut path will only contain the outside borders Contours inside these outside boundaries will be disregarded Select a higher Smoothen value to eliminate points in order to smooth the contour Depending on the deviation you will loose some detail but it will facilitate and speed up the cutting process Set the value for Remove small Contours Objects smaller than the entered value will be removed from the cut path Select an Offset value to spread or choke the Cut Path over the specified Offset distance You can also define the shape of the corners Select Preview to get immediate feedback on screen of the current settings Clicking OK will accept the cut path Cancel will close the dialog without applying any changes Optimize
207. rt Light to Dark Sort Dark to Light Change Dotshape and Ruling of All Inks e Show Options displays hides the options at the bottom of the Inks dialog box e Columns select the columns you want to see e Remove Unused Inks removes inks that no longer are used in the document e Remove Unused Colors and Inks removes inks and colors that no longer are used in the document This option will combine colors in i cut Layout s internal palette that are the same and then remove inks and colors that no longer are used e Sort Light to Dark sorts the inks in the document so that the lightest is first and the darkest is last i cut Layout Ee e Sort Dark to Light sorts the inks in the document so that the darkest is first and the lightest is last e Change Dotshape and ruling of All Inks opens a dialog box which allows you to define the ruling and dotshape for all the inks 9 Default values when adding a new ink define the default settings for ruling angle and dotshape these settings will be used when new inks are added 9 1 7 Tools menu Note This menu will only be enabled in the Sheet View The Tools menu contains following items e The Adjust Masks tool is used to adjust overlapping Graphics e Reset Masks removes all masks that were generated using the Adjust Masks tool e Turn Front to Back will rotate the sheet around the vertical center of the sheet and create the back of the file With this c
208. s eut Layout 1 Export Production Files In the Layouts tab you can use the triangles in front of the Ordered Graphics and Find Nested Layouts section to collapse these sections Note Before searching for the Layouts you can add marks edit the graphics or their Cut Path set a SmartMarks set etc See e Working with Graphics e Using a set e j cut Marks 3 3 1 Finding Layouts i cut Layout can find the most optimal layouts for the requested Graphics and their amounts based on 3 nesting types 26 i cut Layout Minimal Waste Minimal Waste tries to reduce the waste in material to a minimum Find Nested Layouts Nesting Type Minimal Waste Search Time Fast Respect the Graphic s Order Fill Start Point E Top Left Primary Fill Ir Vertical Gutter 5 000 mrm Rotation Allow any Angle ha After nesting center graphics on sheet Horizontally Layout Name NewLayout Find Layouts Morl Note Minimal Waste is not available if any of the Graphics has Maximum Fill enabled See Vaximum Fill Search Time gives an indication of the accuracy by which i cut Layout will search for the best result The faster the search the less accurate the result can be Respect the Graphic s Order will place the Graphics in the order they appear in the Graphics list You can define the Fill Start Point Primary Fill direction Gutter width and allowed Rotation By enabling the option you c
209. s without normalization it is now possible to specify that every other page should be treated as verso graphics Example below will create 5 Graphics by loading page 1 3 5 7 and 9 page 2 4 6 8 and 10 will be used as the verso graphics for these Graphics 16 i cut Layout 6 PDF Import PS Pages Range li to Layers i Add P Gomposed Text i Place Enema Place Multipage File on Front Back Customized Settings 6 5 Importing an EPS Tile The Options for importing an EPS file contain some but not all the same features as the PostScript Options window In particular the Pages and the Page Size tabs do not appear See mporting a PostScript file for complete descriptions of the import options 6 6 Importing an Illustrator file The Options for importing an Illustrator file contain some but not all the same features as the PostScript Options window In particular the Pages and the Page Size tabs do not appear See mporting a PostScript file for complete descriptions of the import options 6 Importing an EPF file The Esko Prep File or EPF is designed to improve the connection between the designer Adobe Illustrator and the prepress department The Import dialog box has four tabs e mages e Other e EPF 6 7 1 Images Cf 18 i cut Layout Images Other EFF Embed all images i 85 bit and Native images with uncompressed image data size smaller than 640 kE will be emb
210. s and their differences and contains a number of tools and buttons to inspect these differences in various ways Move over a button with the cursor and the tooltip will indicate what it stands for 153 ESKO6 EET Buttons with a triangle in the lower right corner contain additional options Control click Windows or Command click Mac the button or click and hold the button to see the extra options G00 Viewer Compare Build 1035 java 1 6 0_24 PowerTrapper_bolognaise_job 0 ESS a i PowerTrapper_bolognaise_job 2 0 Alignment ri offset x Y 0 0 o o mm Difference Threshold o o x Ho o osa MA aul E 367 eE EJ LA Ai r E 207 450 0 x 450 0 mm Navigating the Viewer Compare window The Viewer Compare window contains different ways to navigate The Inspect tools e The Zoom tool Under the zoom tool you find e Zoom out e Fit document in view e Fit document width height e Zoom to 1 1 view e Show Zoom Options showing all these options as individual buttons e The Zoom out tool e The Pan tool 154 i cut Layout Ee The Navigator By dragging the red rectangle when zoomed in you can navigate through the job The View options The View options allow to go back to the previous view or use additional settings such as rotate invert or mirror the view Compare modes Using the Compare butons you can choose different Compare modes views Comp
211. s are merged or split Set Up Overlaps will be unavailable Note Using Set Up Overlaps will reset all overlaps All overlaps added or changed earlier will be lost 53 ESKO cue 54 Set Up Overlaps x Overlaps will be created depending on the assembly order First Tile s Position O E J o See Tile s Order m ii E Overlap fi 0 000 rmm Overlap on both sides Glue Area 5 000 mm Overlap adds an area that will contains information of the neighboring tiles If Overlap on both sides is enabled the same Overlap distance will be applied in both directions In that case no Glue Area will be applied Glue Area adds an area that will be left unprinted and will be glued afterwards Specify the First Tile s Position and the Order in which the tiles should be numbered The image on the right offers a visual representation of the order of the tiles The arrows indicate how the Graphics overlap In the example Graphic 2 and 5 both overlap Graphic 1 Note The first tile will usually be at the bottom It will have more overlap as neighbouring tiles will be attached on top of this tile Customize tiling The Customize Tiling section allows to manually select and change selected tiles The contents of the dialog depends on the current selection Selecting e When hovering over the tiles the blue lines show the selectable objects The actual selection is shown in magenta i cut Layout e You can s
212. s of lineart objects that need pre processing Tip This option increases the readability of small text that is pre processed to image Convert vignettes to image To avoid banding in the vignettes when exporting Exporting vignettes to a PostScript Format may result in blends and banding due to restrictions in PostScript However to obtain a nice result in your export file activate Convert Vignettes to CT All the vignettes present in your design will be converted to images Vignette noise When exporting to PostScript some vignettes or parts of vignettes will be converted to images This happens when the vignettes overlap other objects with translucency or overprint between the vignette and the other objects When the option Convert Vignettes to Image is activated all vignettes are converted to images regardless of overlap with other objects Vignettes that are converted to images may have tone jumps in the final result To reduce this banding effect noise is applied on the image The amount of noise can be specified in the field Vignette Noise Compression Encoding 129 EE eskos cme 130 e Binary The image data is represented as binary data This results in compact files that are not editable in a common ASCII editor however Nor can these files be sent over a communication line using a communication protocol that relies on control characters in the data stream itself e Hex In this way the PostScript file remains edita
213. sko applications like PackEdge call the trim size the Borders Desktop applications often call the trim size the Page Size or the Document Size If your graphic has the correct trim size to use for the die the Select Cut Path dialog box can create the Graphic s cut path from the trim box of the graphic i cut Layout xl Die Shape Use Graphic s Trim Box Borders Ink PANTONE nse t 148 000mm e Em Objects using ink You can use Objects using ink to use contours that use a specific ink in the graphic These options will copy the stroked contours from the graphic into the Graphic Select Die Shape x Die Shape Use Objects using Ink al Ink MPANTONE 115C OPANTONEV5C 2 MO PANTONE 116 C Detect trim marks This function looks for trim marks inside the graphics The position of these marks 2 on each corner will determine the rectangular cut path Select Cut Path Use Detect Trim Marks Create cut path You can create a new Cut Path in two ways 43 ESKOS i cut Layout will automatically i cut Layout Using the Outline of all objects for linework graphics Using Trace Edges for pixel based graphics select the correct option based on the file type of the Graphic Create Cut Path Cut Path Outline of all objects Create from Outline of all Objects Alatten Objects gt Mitered OK Cancel The new cut path will be created a
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216. st e Custom Color allows you to pick a color based on the ink name ink number or color name Overprint e Opaque e Darken e PostScript e Add e Reverse Knocks out the selected ink in the underlying separation If you select for instance Magenta it will be knocked out in the Magenta separation Ignore Similar Inks This option becomes available when you selected Registration ink Tip This is useful when you have similar inks in your job e g two cyans with a different angle and you want to step all the inks but you only want to have one cyan Ignore Technical Inks Technical inks will not be used in the SmartMark This option becomes available when you selected Registration ink Technical Inks are inks used for technical data such as e g an ink to define all cut paths These inks are usually not printed An ink can be marked Technical in the ink dialog Ignore Varnish Inks Varnish inks will not be used in the SmartMark An ink can be marked Varnish in the ink dialog Custom Color in SmartMarks When you select a Custom Color ink from the Ink dropdown list you can define a color and use it afterwards in a SmartMark Custom color inks can be applied e g in text marks i cut Layout set untitled General EF sheet smartMark Options Text Mark Mi Text Mark Text Inks Position Ink Custom Color Define Color Overprint ca Opaque F Ignore Similar Inks PT tgnore Technical Inke F fgnore Var
217. t visible objects bounding box of all printable objects except SmartMarks or Position Marks In the Graphic View a SmartMark can be attached to the borders the margins to visible objects bounding box of all printable objects except SmartMarks Position Marks or to the General level You click and drag the mark s red selector to align any of its 9 points to any of the 9 points on the job In the dialog box above the upper left corner of the mark will be aligned with the upper left corner of the sheet Once you have set the reference point for a mark you can specify an offset from this point using the vertical and horizontal offset fields Both positive and negative offsets are allowed i cut Layout EE You set the orientation of the mark by selecting one of the 5 orientation options 8 3 Supplied smartMarks SmartMarks are very easy to use The mark Options dialog boxes allow you to set the location and ink usage for the mark This section describes each of the marks that are supplied with i cut Layout Note i cut Layout is installed with a base set of SmartMarks If another EskoArtwork application e g PackEdge Plato was installed on your workstation the list of registration marks that were available in that application will also be available as SmartMarks There are 6 SmartMarks specific for i cut Layout e j cut Marks e Waste Divider e ARS mark e Eyelet Mark e Text on Cut Path e Fot
218. t is shown in the document window The white area is the sheet the blue line shows the sheet and its position on the sheet Note You can change these settings for an open document by choosing File gt Document Setup The same dialog will open allowing to change any settings 3 1 1 Sheet Presets Sheet Presets allows you to set up a collection of pre defined sheet sizes and substrates The list of sheets will be available in the Document Setup dialog box You can also manage the Offcut Sheets see manage the Offcut Sheets Sheet Presets x Sheets Offcuts Substrates 1000 0 1000 0 mm OCibond l 2000 0 x 1000 0 rmm Modify 1000 0 1000 0 mm Forex 200x100 2000 0 x 1000 0 mm Copy Rename Delete 21 ESKOS In the Substrates tab all Known Substrates are shown The Nick Size will be used when importing a graphic from i cut Preflight containing Nicks See Importing Nicks from i cut Preflight i cut Layout Sheet Presets Gg x Sheets Offeuts Substrates von E Modify Delete You can Add substrates using the New button or by typing in a new Substrate name directly in the Sheet Presets or in the Document Setup e Modify the Nick Size for a substrate Delete a Substrate from the list Note that Sheet Presets and Offcuts using this Substrate will be removed as well A warning will be shown 3 2 Adding Graphics You can add and manage Graphics in the Graphics tab of the Sm
219. ted Graphics from the list You can only remove Graphics that are not on a layout 7 Click More Actions to use one of the Graphic functions on all selected Graphics See also Working with Graphics 3 2 1 Maximum Fill Instead of a fixed number the amount ordered can be set to Maximum Fill e Inthe Graphics tab click the Ordered number and enable Maximum Fill 1 ili Masimum Fill e Open the General tab of the Graphic Settings and enable Maximum Fill If this option is selected i cut Layout will place as much copies as possible on the sheet Graphics with a fixed quantity will be placed first After that graphics with a Maximum Fill will be placed until the sheet is filled completely If more than one graphic has Maximum Fill enabled the sheet will be filled with both graphics proportionally Note As soon as one Graphic has Maximum Fill enabled the Minimal Waste nesting type can t be used See Finding Layouts 3 2 2 Scale dialog If you click the scale label in the Graphics list the Scale dialog will open _ scale ee a 100 0 2 A 471 049 mm Reset OK Cancel 24 i cut Layout The Scale dialog allows to enter the desired resulting size or the desired scale factor of the graphics Changing the desired resulting size will also change the scale factor and vice versa If the lock behind the input fields is enabled the scaling will remain proportional Entering a vertical size will ch
220. ted device type is calculated for this option e Use Clip paths at X points to split linework masks for images with more than x points into several smaller linework parts This option decreases the complexity of the masks Workaround e gnore varnish inks Varnish inks will not be included while outputting to PostScript e Resolve once identical one ups in Step amp repeat file Instead of resolving the complete Step amp Repeat file identical one ups will be resolved only once e Resolve once identical external files Instead of resolving the complete file and all its external references identical external files will be resolved only once e Resolve pure black overprint Overprints are normally resolved but default pure black is left alone if you want Rich Black to be resolved too select this toggle This toggle is only available when the Color Management options in the Color Management tab are activated i cut Layout Ee Limit filename size to 31 characters Check this toggle if you want to make sure your imported files can be seen read from by all Apple operating systems Split separated output into multiple files Instead of writing one file containing all separations the system will write one file per separation Split multi page jobs into multiple files Every page will be output as a separate file Suppress Hairlines At Clips Due to the PostScript limitation of maximum points allowed for a path complex paths will be cut into smaller
221. ted proofs and will help you to avoid bad plate making Fly out menu options A number of settings can be found in the Fly out menu by clicking the arrow at the top right of the dialog Show in All Windows Use this to apply the Viewer preview settings to all the windows open in PackEdge when you used several windows Merge Similar Inks This option affects how a separation containing objects with different halftone information is displayed in the separation list Leave it off to display a separate entry for each different halftone setting as shown below at left or select it to display different halftone settings of the same separation as one entry as shown below at right Uneolored Uncolored a Default Click Default to use the Default Press Setting For more information see Define Press Settings Manage Press Settings Click this option to create duplicate edit or delete Press Settings See Define Press Settings Define Press Settings Before you can start working with Viewer in a meaningful way you should define your Press Settings Without basic information on the properties of the press you are using Viewer cannot simulate accurately You can open the Press Settings window by selecting Press Settings in the fly out menu The Default Press Settings In the list of Press Settings there is always one Press Setting called Default which you can edit but not delete You can select it by clicki
222. th references to non nomalized PDF files can not be processed on a Esko Suite 7 BackStage server Automation Engine lf Check Job Parameters after opening a document lf Check Job Parameters before saving a document 137 EE eskos came 138 Temporary Files The default temporary files directory is the temp folder on your home folder Click the Browse icon to choose another directory Select a directory on the fastest hard disk of the workstation Show file options in file selector dialog Checking this checkbox will open the File Options dialog box every time you open or import a file Show thumbnail preview in file selector dialog The file selector shows File Info Check the checkbox to turn the preview on or off Create backup file bak in same folder Creates a backup file in the same folder Indicate whether you want to create a backup file before saving or before loading You need to change the bak into pla in order to be able to read the file into the editor Update external files when they are modified checks whether the referenced files were changed since the file has been loaded Only happens when the workstation is idle e g when a GRS is placed in i cut Layout but is edited in Esko PackEdge at the same time Place PDF files without normalization It is possible to place non normalized PDF files using this preference option When placing non normalized PDF files this will result in a non rippable PDFPLA file
223. th vertical and horizontal Inks See Setting Inks in SmartMarks 8 3 4 Eyelet Mark Eyelet Marks allow to define the eyelets e g for stretch banners to be mounted on a frame Mark SmartMark Options Eyelet Mark Marks Inks Position He t 10 000 mm There are three marks that can be used for eyelet marks e Cross marks defined by vertical size horizontal size and line thickness e Circle marks defined by vertical size horizontal size circle diameter and line thickness e an external file which can be selected using the browse button 109 ee ESKOS Inks i cut Layout See Setting Inks in SmartMarks Position SmartMark Options Eyelet Mark Marks Ink Position Attach to Object Hame g Where alSides Hem 5 000 mm Distance to Edge 2 500 mm E Masimum Interval 150 000 mm White Hem Duplicate Mark in Hem You can set eyelet marks on All Sides or only in the left right or top bottom area by setting the Where dropdown The position of the eyelet marks is defined by the Hem the Distance to the edge of the sheet and the maximum interval Eyelet marks will be divided equally along the edge The smallest amount of eyelets is used without exceeding the maximum interval You can duplicate the eyelet marks in the Hem area by selecting the Duplicate Mark in Hem option The eyelet will be mirrored over the Hem edge so that after folding both marks are at the sam
224. the cursor at an icon or command If a keyboard shortcut is available for the item it will also be shown in the balloon help aT EE eskos came Formula enabled fields also have balloon help it shows both the formula and the corresponding value Balloon Help is turned on by default As you become more familiar with i cut Layout you may want to turn the balloons off Simply click the Help menu and select Balloon Help The balloons can be turned on and off with this command i cut Layout s Online Help contains the entire contents of the User s Guide in electronic form You access Online Help by selecting Online Help on the Help menu Selecting a topic will jump directly to that section of the User s Guide You also open Online Help using the keyboard shortcut F1 The Licenses tab opens the licenses dialog in which you can see the current licenses In Presentations you can find presentations about whats new in i cut Layout 10 and about SmartMarks 9 2 loolbars All toolbars can easily be shown or hidden easily via the toolbars list in the Window menu iw File amp Edit iw Preview Selector iw Smartest i StatusBear Ctri iw Tools io View Selector e File amp Edit e Preview Selector see Preview e Shuttle see Shuttle e SmartNest window see Creating a SmartNest Layout e Status Bar See Status Bar e Tools see Tools e View Selector see View Selector All toolbars can docked around your drawing window T
225. the document window When the Mark up dialog box is open you can select move and delete the guides interactively from the document window To delete a guide select it and press Delete 68 i cut Layout 17 Automatically created layers i cut Layout can create some layers for you automatically For example a layer CAD Layout will be created when you import a CAD layout into the sheet All the crease and cut lines for the CAD layout are placed in this layer A Graphic layer will also be created when you place or assign Graphics on the sheet All Graphics are placed in this layer A working area layer is created when you specify margins in the layout setup You are not restricted to using these layers They are created to help you organize your work Other objects can be placed in these layers too For instance you can place marks in the Graphic layer 7 3 2 Using To Front To Back Four commands on the Arrange menu help you order the objects in a layer These are To Front Forward Backward and To Back To move an object to the top of all other objects on the current layer 1 Select the object s that you want in front 2 On the Arrange menu click To Front To move an object one step up within the current layer 1 Select the object s that you want to move forward 2 On the Arrange menu click Forward To move a object one step down within the current layer 1 Select the object s that you want to move b
226. the object you want to select The object is selected in red indicating that it can be transformed or modified Selecting an object in green Use green selection to select an object while keeping it from being transformed or modified To select an object in green 1 Click Select on the toolbar 2 Click the object that you want to select 3 Press the shortcut Ctrl Alt G to change the selection from red to green If you have some objects selected in red and some selected in green pressing the shortcut Ctrl Alt G will toggle the objects between the two selections That is objects selected in red become selected in green and objects selected in green become selected in red For more information about shortcuts please refer to the chapter Shortcuts Selecting multiple objects To add an object to the current selection 1 Click Select on the toolbar and click the first object 2 Hold SHIFT and click each additional object that you would like to add Caution The Shift key is an Esko shortcut If you are using DTP shortcuts or created your own shorcuts the key could be different For more information about shortcuts please refer to the chapter Shortcuts To select all objects within an area 1 Click Select on the toolbar 2 Position the cursor outside the objects you want to select and click hold and drag the mouse to create a box around the objects Release the mouse button You must entirely enclose an
227. the point where the vignette ends The points can be selected and replaced If you replace the points within the vignette the color for this vignette will also be adapted Consequently also the color swatch in the Color Palette displaying the vignette color will be adapted Effects The Effects dialog box can appear when setting the style of a geometry mark and allows you to add more advanced transparency settings In the Fill and Stroke tab entry you can apply transparency settings on the fill and stroke attribute of the selected objects from the document in the Group tab entry when a group or combi object is targeted you can apply transparency effects to the object or group it self Fill and Stroke tab entry contain the same options 201 ESKO i cut Layout CS htt i Fill O Stroke O Group Opacity Gradient Opacity amp mask define knockout shape olor Gradient B TS tsk gt Fill O Stroke O Group Opacity Gradient Opacity amp mask define knockout shape olor Gradient B The Object Group tab contains specific transparency options for PDF Transparency groups Effects Sti O Fill O Stoke O Group Opacity Gradient Opacity amp mask define knockout shape Isolate blending Inherit knockout group from parent E O O I Knockout group Opacity amp Mask Define Knockout Shape checkbox keeps a knockout effect proportional to the masking object s opacity The knockout effe
228. tically appears in the color swatches when you click them is also a color When making a vignette from a color to the empty color white be aware that white is 100 opaque Color Factory Use the Color Factory to display or modify the selected color Open the Color Factory by e Double clicking a color swatch in the Color palette e activating Vignette in the Color palette xj Ei i Color Factory You can display or modify the selected color in the Color Factory Color Factory You can modify the percentages of inks with the slider or the spin boxes You can add an ink by entering the initial of the ink name in the input box next to the ink value input box This adds a new ink if still non existing to the Inks dialog box 2 28 Ink Factory To display or modify the inks that will be used to print a color when a job is printed or processed Vignette Color Factory To create color vignettes When you select an empty color swatch in the Color Palette and then click the vignette button the Vignette Color Factory appears The Vignette Color Factory is an extension of the Color Factory Vignette Points and Curve To determine how the color will be averaged between the colors assigned to the points on both sides i cut Layout Ee e The vignette points are used to determine the color for the vignette and the vignette curve is used to determine how the colors between two or more points will be graded e Two curves and t
229. ties of i cut Layout follow these simple steps to create your first nested layout Note To change the current units click Edit gt Preferences gt Defaults 1 In i cut Layout click File gt New CTRL N The Document Setup dialog box appears i cut Layout Document Set up Document Name NewLayout Sheet Preset Custom Sheet Presets Substrate Dibond Sheet Height 1000 000 mm Fit Sheet width 2000 000 mm Fit Top Margin i 5O00 mm Bottom biargin fis000mm 2 Lett Margin fis000mmn Right Margir fis000mn Backing Up tum F Document Profile crom offs Define a substrate for the new layout by choosing a new entry on the Substrate drop down list box or by entering a name for it Define the size for the sheet and the margins by entering them manually or by using a Sheet Preset For this example follow the steps below a Choose Custom from the Sheet Preset drop down list box b Enter a Sheet Height of 1000 mm 40 inches c Enter a Sheet Width of 2000 mm 80 inches d Enter a Top Margin of 15 mm 0 6 inches Click OK i cut Layout can automatically place i cut registration marks The easiest way is to define a set of SmartMarks To add i cut marks do the following a Click Production gt SmartMarks or click SmartMarks in the status bar If you selected a SmartMarks set earlier this set will be applied and opened If not a new Untitled SmartMarks set will be
230. ting as it immediately gives you an indication whether or not distributing is at all possible and to which panels the distribution will happen If we move one of the stars and do an update you will notice that the three other stars need to move as well It is now enough to select the moved star and click Update Copies You will notice that 191 EE eskos cue 192 Distribute Selection is now called Update Copies There is no need anymore to select a panel in the Studio window The selected art knows that it has been distributed before An indication that you have selected distributed art is given in the info message in the Studio window The selection contains distributed art This piece of distributed art has become a smart object that knows to which panel it belongs and which other art belongs to the same distribution When clicking Update Copies the other art that belongs to the same distribution in our example the other stars will be replaced with a new updated copy of the selected distributed art In the layer browser you also have an indication which art is distributed art and hence smart The name of distributed art is always Distribution What can do if the distribution looks wrong The graphics have been distributed to the correct coplanar panels but the result of the distribution in the Studio window is still not correct In this case it is not that the distribution has positione
231. ting a set is done by loading the set making the required changes and saving the set again If you want to use an existing set as the basis for a new set you can load the existing set make the required changes and use Save As on the fly out menu Using Save As creates a new set with a different name 8 2 7 SmartMarks in the Graphic View When using SmartMarks in i cut Layout the reference point in the marks dialog boxes is based on the sheet In the Graphic View there is no sheet in this case the reference point is based on the borders or the margins In the Graphic View the borders are set to the bounding box of the current die So you can attach SmartMarks to the die of the Graphic The Margins of a Graphic are set to the bounding box of all the objects in the Graphic including those that are outside the die So if you have other elements like Geometry Marks that are located outside the die the Margins are fit to include them See Setting the location of a SmartMark 8 2 8 Setting Inks in SmartMarks Most SmartMarks offer the following options to define the Ink to be used for the marks 99 ES eskos came 100 Ink Ee Registration __ Select Inks Overprint Del opaque Ignore Similar Inks Ignore Technical Inks Ignore Vamish Inks Ink e Registration e Darkest e Black or Darkest e Black e Knock Out e Custom Ink allows to pick any number of inks either by name or by position in the inks li
232. ting an Image Tile Places an image but keeps it native i e these file will not be converted to a CT file even when the file containing the placed ones is saved as a Esko native file Image files can be Photoshop PSD files EPS JPEG or TIFF files Place Image x Embed image Force to place 1 bit images as copydot image Customized Settings Check Embed image to embed the image 81 Be eEskos came Force to place 1 bit images as copydot image makes sure that Copydot optimization will be activated when outputting to a Rip If this toggle is not selected the Rip will contourize the 1 bit image resulting slow performance or out of memory issues Caution The 1 bit image needs to be placed in blend mode Darken when placed in blend mode opaque the rip will still contourize 6 9 Importing Nicks from i cut Preflight In i cut Preflight 10 1 you can add Nicks to a cut path and save the nick positions in the PDF file When importing such a PDF graphic these positions are loaded and a message is displayed e g Loaded 8 nicks using the default nick size To determine the nick size i cut Layout will look for the current substrate in the Substrate tab of the Sheet Presets See Sheet Presets If the current substrate is not in that list or if no nick size is defined for the substrate the default size is used as set in the Nick tool See Nick Too 6 10 Importing an XML from i cut Automate 82 In i cut Au
233. ting system Select Cut Path allows you to select a already existing cut path See Select Cut Path Create Cut Path allows you to create a new cut path See Create cut path Optimize Cut Path allows you to optimize the cut path See Optimize Cut Path Place Graphic allows you to add a graphic and immediately place it in the layout you are currently working on Replace by allows you to replace a Graphic See Replacing a graphic Assign Graphic to Design allows you to assign a Graphic to a CAD design Replace by Graphics File allows you to replace a Graphic See Replacing a graphic Export Graphic allows you to export a Graphic including all changes you made such as creating a Cut Path adding bleed See Export Graphic 9 1 6 Inks menu 158 The Inks menu contains following item Inks To add modify or remove Inks and to display the current inks in your job with their properties i cut Layout INKS Click Inks to add modify or remove inks and to display the current inks in your job with their properties Note The Inks dialog box in the Graphic View is purely informative Inks eee 4 O9 O _ 7 5 x OO gt E Cyan process Mormal Le 2 B Magenta process Normal a 3 Yellow Process Normal 4 E Black Process Normal 5 PANTONE 583C PANTONE Colors Coated t Normal E PANTONE 7546C PANTONE Colors Coated t Normal 7 Die unregistered t Normal 6 Puzzle unregistered Normal
234. ting the shape In the document a 3D Guide appears like a set of horizontal vertical or even slanted line segments clipped inside panel boundaries These line segments show where the plane is intersecting with the panels Graphics can snap to these segments just as with regular guides This is how the 3D guides are presented in the 2D and 3D view F Untitled 1 6 CMYK Preview 00 Bi Untitled 2 6 CMYK Preview ene DISPLAY ARD Double click a panel to display it in the docum ent window EHE Ka o Pia 4 For Collada files made with Studio Toolkit For Labels you can get curved 3D Guides in the document if your printable part is a conical label i cut Layout Ee STUDIO Creating and Editing 38D Guides To create or move a 3D guide use the 3D Guide tool in the applications toolbar Click and drag somewhere in the shape in the document to create or move a guide By holding the option alt key you can switch between vertical and horizontal guides To delete a 3D guide use the 3D guide tool and simply drag it outside the shape in the PackEdge document To delete all 3D guides you can delete the 3D Guides layer that contains all 3D guides Creating Copies with the Distribute command Most of the faces of a package consist of a single panel So there is just one rectangular area in the document that will make up this face However sometimes a face is made of several panels The 179 E
235. tomate you can use the Add Parameters for Nesting task to create an XML file containing a link to the corresponding PDF file and all necessary information such as number ordered cut path scale etc These XML files can be send to a Nesting task but in some cases the XML files can be processed manually in i cut Layout e g e if the job doesn t fit on the sheet size set in the Nesting task e if the due date is too close and the maximum waste set in the Nesting task is exceeded To use an XML in i cut Layout you use the regular Add Graphic function and browse for the XML file The corresponding PDF file will be placed and all information number ordered cut path scale etc will be entered in the Graphics List i cut Layout 7 Manual Sheet Editing Besides using all the SmartNest tools you can create and edit your sheets manually 7 1 Placing a Graphic The Add Graphic command is used to add an existing Graphic to a sheet in the Manual Layout Workflow This command will place an existing Graphic in the lower left corner of the sheet This is the default situation The orientation can be set in Edit menu gt Preferences gt Defaults Once a Graphic has been placed in the layout you can use the Transform and Align tools to create your own layout To place a Graphic 1 Create a new layout 2 On the Preparation menu click Add Graphic The Place Graphic dialog box appears metadata Tj AmericanCars
236. troke group is expanded in the user interface New in the Style dialog is the possibility to apply a blend mode or opacity to an object or group With the latter you create the so called PDF Transparency groups i cut Layout Ee A PDF transparency group is a group of objects that have a transparency effect blend mode or opacity These PDF transparency groups are treated as a single object relative to underlying objects A shaded circle in the title bar of the groups indicates when a Fill Stroke or Object has a transparency applied Double click his icon to show the Effects Dialog in which you can apply more transparency to the object Specifying default settings for transparency features if you change transparency settings when no objects are selected the settings are applied to newly created objects Note When 2 or more objects in the document with a different value for the same attribute are selected an unknown state is displayed in the user interface In this example 2 objects with a different blend mode for the fill are selected in the document Also the title bar shows an unknown state because one of the selected objects still has the default transparency settings blend mode Normal while the other object has a blend mode different from Normal Color Factory Fill x m mie E Normal H 00 0 i Overprint i O Stoke O Group O O OF ie Nornral FOO ik 1 The color swatch shows the current
237. ts the values for the first point you clicked were entered into the top line of the Measure window The values for the second point you clicked were entered into the position for the second point the third line of the window Measure tool tips e If you click another point the values for the new point are entered into the second point position and the previous values are moved up to be the first point e The Measure tool will snap to contours when in Contour Display mode allowing you to accurately measure the distance between two objects When in Cross or Dummy color mode it will snap to the bounding box of the Graphics e The values in the Measure tool are copied to the Measure Window You can open the Measure Window to use these values in other dialog boxes or windows 9 2 3 View Selector xl View ls Lal Side E a The View Selector indicates or sets e The View in which you are working Sheet or Graphic View e The side of the sheet on which you are working front or back 224
238. tures The Options for Illustrator and EPS contain some but not all the same features as the PostScript Options window All the features of the PostScript Options window will be described here The features that are used in PDF Illustrator and EPS files refer to this section Clicking Setup in the Replace Graphic dialog box opens the PostScript Options window The Options window contains tabs to fine tune the import of PostScript files 6 3 1 Pages Some options of the Pages tab are used by Esko Software Suite applications other than i cut Layout Some options are disabled as shown below PostScript Import x Pages Color Management Inks Overprint Images Page Size Other Output Page range f All Pages Range Example 1 5 7 3 11 F Split Up a MultiPage File Warimum Pages per File fo First Pagenumber in Output f Merg Tiled CT Files to one CT Merge separated file to composite page Optimize merged file IM Place External al Select All Pages or specify a Range of pages Split up a multipage file To divide the original multipage PostScript file into smaller parts You define the amount of pages to open of the specified pages or range What you need to know 62 i cut Layout 6 e Each part is stored as a separate GRS Normalized PDF file It is either stored locally or stored in the output directory e Each part is stored with the name of the imported PostScript fil
239. ual 6 7 3 EPF S0 EPF Import x Images Other EFF Fit borders to 07 fais E Fit margins to graphics IM Place Eternal al Customized Settings Fit Borders to This options allows you to specify the borders and indirectly also the margins of the output file One of the following rectangular areas of your document may be selected as borders of the output file Artboard The borders of the output file will be set to the Artboard of the document Graphics The borders of the output file will be set to the bounding box of all artwork in the document Crop Marks The borders of the output file will be set to the Crop Marks defined in the document This option is available only when a Crop Area is present in the current document i cut Layout 6 The figure below illustrates the borders and margins of an output document as interpreted on an Esko system The full black line represents the borders corresponding to one or the above options while the dotted black line indicates the margins of the document If the option Artboard or Crop Marks is selected the margins of the input document will be defined implicitly by the bounding box of all artwork in the document If there is no artwork partially outside the Artboard or Crop Area then the top bottom left and right margins will be set to zero no margins In other cases the margins will be computed automatically to include artwork of the document 6 8 Impor
240. umbers B Ink 10 unused Ink 10 unused al Ink 11 unused Ink 11 unused 7 ma Ink 12 unused Ink 12 unused WM PANTONE 195C PANTONE 115C Ink 4 unused Ink 5 unused 101 ESKO i cut Layout You can drag a color swatch from the Colors palette to the color sample at the top right of the dialog box and the list in the Define Color dialog box will be updated immediately Define Color x Define Color x Define Color x Define Color by Ink Numbers Define Color by Ink Numbers Define Color by Ink Numbers v Ink gt v Ink gt v Ink gt BB PANTONE 191C Ga v BB PANTONE 191C 76 m v BB PANTONE 191C 76 Ga E PANTONE 195C v E PANTONE 195C x 14 v E PANTONE 195C 14 E PANTONE 115C 100 v PANTONE 115C 100 v I PANTONE 115C Ink 4 unused v Ink 4 unused 100 Ink 5 unused Ink 5 unused Ink 6 unused Ink 6 unused Ink unused Ink 7 unused Ink 8 unused J E E E E E Ink 8 unused Ink 9 unused a LJ E ted Ink 9 unused Ink 10 unused E EJO IOL Ink 10 unused Ink 11 unused EBB J E Ink 11 unused Ink 12 unused a gt Ink 12 unused E 764191 144195 100115 O Ti i to Color Name Tip drag a color swatch from the Colors palette Tip drag a color swatch from the Colors palette to the color sa
241. up the Tiling 5 Click Create Tiles Tiles will be created and will appear in the Graphics list The current view will switch to the Sheet view A ND 5 5 1 Create Tiling Grid The first step in tiling a graphic is creating a basic Tiling Grid The basic tiling grid simply divides the total Grid Size in a number of tiles of the same size These are just initial settings and can be changed manually later on Create Tiling Grid Tiling Template krones Grid Size l Copy from Graphics HFH 500 000 mm 4 5000 000 mm Fit Graphics to Grid Specify the number of tiles or the tile size de a H eam St eam OK Cancel 51 ESKO came e You can select a previously saved Tiling Template If a Tiling Template is selected the grid size is fixed and the bottom of the dialog will show a preview of the Tiling Template See Working with a Tiling Template on page 56 e If you want to keep the total Grid Size at the size of your graphic you can enable the Copy from Graphics option In that case the Grid Size is fixed at the size of the Graphic Changing the number of tiles vertical or horizontal will change the tile size and vice versa e f Copy from Graphics is disabled you can freely change the total Grid Size Changing the Grid Size will automatically change the Tile Size while changing the Tile Size or the number of tiles will automatically update the Grid Size e f you enable Fit Graphics to Grid your
242. ve Fath Translation File Translation E Place External al Customized Settings Embed all images All images become internal images Link External Images OPI DCS Helios Force the system to look for referenced images Fail if not Found Activate this option if you do NOT want the system to continue importing normalizing your PostScript file when it cannot find an image When this option is not activated the imported E PS file will appear on screen but without the missing images Search for Preconverted Files This option forces the system to look for the GRx CT or LP equivalent for the original EPS file If this equivalent is not found it will use the EPS in stead Optimize DCS LineWork Without linework DCS optimization the result after conversion of linework DCS files can be difficult to edit However it will be correct when viewed in extended preview or RIPped Optimize DCS Linework will do an additional operation to combine the elements on each DCS sheet to a composite and a more editable result Images Available options are e Use Most Recent forces the system to use the existing images of a previous conversion of the same job e Reconvert forces the system to regenerate the images on the fly Use Masks Available options are e PS Mask Forces the system to take the PS mask present in the PS file The mask available in the external image is discarded If no PS mask is present in the PS file no mask
243. view rectangle over the document You can also force the application to repaint the display by clicking the Repaint button Measure lool Use the Measure tool to measure one or two points in the document window The measurements for the points are shown relative to the current origin of your document e Measuring a single point e Measuring the distance between two points Measuring a single point To measure a single point 1 Click the Measure icon on the toolbar The Measure window appears 2 Click in the document window on the point that you want to measure The point you clicked is highlighted in the document window The location of this point is shown in the Measure window 229 EE Eskos cme Measuring the distance between two points The Measure window shows the location of the two points and the midpoint and the distance between them To measure two points 1 Click the Measure icon on the toolbar The Measure window appears 2 Click in the document window on the first point that you want to measure 3 Click in the document window on the second point that you want to measure The two points that you clicked are highlighted in the document window The location of the two points the midpoint between them and their distance are shown in the Measure window x il c ae 5 Location Point 1 Midpoint between T amp 2 95 209 Location Point 2 Distance between 1 amp 2 1 133 008 When you selected two poin
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245. will be included in the PDF file e these inks contain cutting information and thus will be included in the cutting file these inks will be excluded from export You can change the assignment of an ink by clicking the icon Note If you want to output only the i Cut file you can switch all printing inks to exclude If you only want to output the PDF file you can switch the cutting inks to exclude The third column is only available for inks assigned to the Cutting file What you can define depends on the selected cutting file type see below If the Cutting File type is set to i Cut file or PDF file you can enter or change the name of the layer the ink will be placed in If the Cutting File type is set to HPGL you can define the HPGL line type to be used If the Cutting File type is set to MFG you can select the ArtiosCad line types If an ArtiosCAD file was imported for the cut shape the complete ARD file will be put in the MFG file If the Cutting File type is set to ACM you can either select ArtiosCad line types or you can select the native line types P1 P2 P3 When selecting ArtiosCad line types the conversion from MFG to ACM will include a number of optimizations and manipulations When using P1 P2 the cut lines are dumped straight into the ACM file Export PDF File e Set the File Name e Define in what folder the file must be saved either by entering the path or by clicking the Select
246. will be taken e External Mask if any PS Mask otherwise Forces the system to take the mask present in the external image The PS mask is discarded If the external image has no mask but there is a PS mask available in the PS file this PS mask will be taken i cut Layout e External Mask if any no mask otherwise Forces the system to take the mask present in the external image The PS mask is discarded If the external image has no mask no mask will be taken e No Masks The PS mask and the mask of the external image are discarded e Joined External and PS Mask Forces the system to join the available PostScript mask in the PS file and the available mask in the external image Search directories To specify a list of directories in which to look for referenced images Use the buttons Add and Remove to optimize the Search Directories list Clicking opens the directory selector You can browse to the correct directory and click OK to add the directory to the Search Directory list Path Translation To define an understandable link for paths from a platform to another platform The Path Translation dialog box opens it has three columns e From Platform Use the drop down list to select a platform from which the files are to be retrieved NT Macintosh Unix or VMS e From path Specify the syntax of the path s of the platform you want to retrieve files from e g My WwOGre Posts eid pe JODI e To Path Define the syntax of the p
247. y not be selected or changed Click the box to lock or unlock the layer The padlock button at the top of the column locks or unlocks all layers Add Delete Layer L Layers can be added or deleted from the document From left to right these icons are add a grid layer add a markup grid layer add an object layer and delete a layer The delete layer button can be used to delete any layer in the list Deleting a layer deletes the layer and all the objects on the layer Ee Active Layer The Active Layer is the layer to which all new objects will be added The current Active Layer is shown with a black triangle at the top right corner of the layer To make a layer the active layer click its name in the layer list There is a difference between a layer being selected and a layer being the active layer For example you can select a grid layer but it will not become the active layer because objects cannot be placed on grid layers Allows you to add a new Grid Layer Allows you to add a new Markup Layer i a A little red square indicates the layer contains red selected objects A big red square indicates that all objects of a layer are selected in red A double ring k indicates the object is targeted or is the current active The Style and Effects dialog boxes show the properties of the object that is targeted Tr Snap On Off Al ena Snap can be turned on or off for grid and markup layers Click the Snap On Off ic
248. y contains preview functionality Some of the functions described in the documentation underneath are NOT available in i cut Layout Introduction Welcome to the Studio Designer documentation This documentation describes Studio Designer as a plugin in Illustrator as well as Studio integrated in other EskoArtwork applications such as PackEdge Although the documentation is based on Studio Designer in Adobe Illustrator the functionality is the same in other versions About Studio Designer Studio Designer is a plug in for Adobe Illustrator ArtPro PackEdge and Plato for interactive 3D packaging design which helps designers make graphic designs or do pre press for folding carton bag files cans corrugated boxes flexible packages and so on Studio Designer works with structural design files created in ArtiosCAD or Studio Toolkit These can be ARD files bag files or dae zae files Collada files with a printable part defined Once a structural design file is placed in a document Studio Designer can display a three dimensional preview of the packaging with the artwork rendered on it This allows designers to see how their graphics will look on the final package Studio Designer also lets you load a multi part structural design file as a scene Each part of the scene can get its graphics from another document Studio Designer also contains productive tools for quick and accurate aligning and duplicating graphic elements Studio Designer is able

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