Creative Adobe Suite 5 Manual

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Simulate Black Ink Simulates the dark gray you really get instead of a solid black on many printers, according to the 
proof profile. Not all profiles support this option.
In Photoshop, if you want the custom proof setup to be the default proof setup for documents, close all document 
windows before choosing the View > Proof Setup > Custom command. 
Soft-proof for color blindness (Photoshop and Illustrator)
Color Universal Design (CUD) ensures...

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Save or load a custom proof setup (Photoshop, InDesign)
1Choose View > Proof Setup > Custom.
2Do either of the following:
To save a custom proof setup, click Save. To ensure that the new preset appears in the View > Proof Setup menu, 
save the preset in the default location.
To load a custom proof setup, click Load.
Soft-proof colors (Acrobat)
1Do one of the following, depending on your version of Acrobat:
(Acrobat 9) Choose Advanced > Print...

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If you choose this method, it is very important that you set up printing options and turn on color management in your 
printer driver. Search Help for additional instructions.
If you select a PostScript printer, you can take advantage of PostScript color management. PostScript color 
management makes it possible to perform color composite output or color separations at the raster image processor 
(RIP)—a process called in-RIP separations—so that...

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In general, you have the following choices for handling colors when creating PDFs:
(PDF/X-3) Does not convert colors. Use this method when creating a document that will be printed or displayed 
on various or unknown devices. When you select a PDF/X-3 standard, color profiles are automatically embedded 
in the PDF.
(PDF/X-1a) Converts all colors to the destination CMYK color space. Use this method if you want to create a press-
ready file that...

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Document profiles Define the specific RGB or CMYK color space of a document. By assigning, or tagging, a document 
with a profile, the application provides a definition of actual color appearances in the document. For example, R=127, 
G=12, B=107 is just a set of numbers that different devices will display differently. But when tagged with the Adobe 
RGB color space, these numbers specify an actual color or wavelength of light–in this case, a...

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Gamma The brightness of the midtone values. The values produced by a monitor from black to white are nonlinear—
if you graph the values, they form a curve, not a straight line. Gamma defines the value of that curve halfway between 
black and white.
Phosphors The substances that CRT monitors use to emit light. Different phosphors have different color 
characteristics.
White point The color and intensity of the brightest white the monitor can...

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Embed a color profile
To embed a color profile in a document you created in Illustrator, InDesign, or Photoshop, you must save or export 
the document in a format that supports ICC profiles.
1Save or export the document in one of the following file formats: Adobe PDF, PSD (Photoshop), AI (Illustrator), 
INDD (InDesign), JPEG, Photoshop EPS, Large Document Format, or TIFF.
2Select the option for embedding ICC profiles. The exact name and location...

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2For RGB Profile and CMYK Profile, select one of the following:
Discard (Use Current Working Space) Removes the existing profile from the document. Select this option only if you 
are sure that you do not want to color-manage the document. After you remove the profile from a document, the 
appearance of colors is defined by the application’s working space profiles, and you can no longer embed a profile in 
the document.
Assign Current Working...

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2Click Advanced. The following additional ICC profile types are available under Destination Space:
Multichannel Profiles that support more than four color channels. These are useful when printing with more than four inks.
Device Link Profiles that transform from one device color space to another, without using an intermediate color space 
in the process. These are useful when specific mappings of device values (like 100% black) are required....

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A working space profile acts as the source profile for newly created documents that use the associated color model. For 
example, if Adobe RGB (1998) is the current RGB working space profile, each new RGB document that you create will 
use colors within the Adobe RGB (1998) gamut. Working spaces also determine the appearance of colors in untagged 
documents.
If you open a document embedded with a color profile that doesn’t match the working space...