User Guide

Chapter 2: Documents and Setup
No transparency: Does not render any transparency effects in
the document. If you select this option, transparency (SpriteLayer)
and image (SpriteEffects) effects will not be printed; transparent
objects will be printed as opaque objects.
The one exception to this rule involves vector objects that have a
transparency Scope setting of Fill only when printing to a
PostScript printer, because PostScript can print transparent fill
inks in vector objects without rendering. For information on the
Scope setting, see "To set an object’s transparency scope:" on
page 671.
Select Don’t Render Transparent Objects if you need to
quickly print a proof of a complex document. This allows
you to check the positioning of objects without seeing the
final transparency effects.
Rendered transparency effects are transmitted as image
data when printing to PostScript printers.
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