If you're looking for problems in just a single PDF, you can probably just use …Output Preview. But if you're looking for problems in …multiple PDFs and you'd like to batch process them. …Then you need to create a Preflight profile. …To do that, go to your Print Production Tools and choose Preflight. …And you'll see that there's a pretty good number of presets that ship with Acrobat. …But what I'm going to do, is use one of those as a starting point, and then I'm …going to customize it and have it look for anything that's not spot color or black.…
In other words, anything that's going to generate a cyan, magenta, or yellow …plate, So under Prepress, I'm going to use this Sheetfed Offset profile as a …starting point. Now, I don't want to change it. …I want to leave it intact. So I'm going to come up to Options and …choose Create New PreFlight Profile. And I need to name it. …And I'm going to tell it to search for CMYK. …So I'm going to name it no CMYK. And you can put all sorts of information …
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5/9/2013- Why spot colors are necessary
- Making a decision between spot and process colors
- Choosing a spot color
- Understanding the effects of stock on color
- Printing spot colors digitally
- Using varnishes
- Creating a multi-tone image in Photoshop
- Adding Pantone color swatches to Illustrator
- Creating spot varnishes in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
- Using preflight profiles in Acrobat
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 27s
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1. Understanding Spot Colors
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Choosing a spot color4m 11s
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2. Printing Spot Colors
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3. Using Varnishes
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4. Photoshop
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Creating a spot varnish3m 32s
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5. Illustrator
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Creating a varnish5m 52s
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Creating spot gradients3m 33s
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6. InDesign
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Creating a spot varnish5m 35s
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7. Acrobat XI
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Using preflight profiles2m 59s
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Conclusion
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Next steps18s
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