Operation Manual
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P R I N T I N G
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Overprint Preview
In the Illustrator Attributes panel, you can set the lls and strokes of elements of
your artwork to overprint when it is separated for professional printing.
For so (onscreen) color proofs of your artwork, choose View > Overprint
Preview. Overprint Preview approximates how blending, transparency, and
overprinting will appear in color-separated output, which can save time and
money by preventing unwanted surprises on press.
Printing overlapping tiles
If your artwork does not t on a single printed page, you can tile it. Tiling is
dividing the artboard to t a printer’s available page sizes. You can choose a
tiling option in the Setup pane of the Print dialog box. To view the page tiling
boundaries on the artboard, choose View > Show Page Tiling.
Just as Illustrator allows you to print large artwork on multiple pages, you can
also output a large document to a multipage PDF le. To create a multipage PDF
le, rst dene tiling in the Print dialog box, and then click Done. Choose File >
Save A Copy, choose Adobe PDF from the Format pop-up menu, and then click
Save. In the Save Adobe PDF dialog box that then appears, select Create Multi-
page PDF From Page Tiles in the General pane.
In the Setup pane of the Print dialog box, you
can dene how pages of a large document
tile on smaller pages.
Once you have dened a tiling method in the
Print dialog box, you can save your artwork
as a tiled multipage PDF.