ARTS PDF Crackerjack Version 5.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Contents Contents 1. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................. 5 2. SETUP .......................................................................................................... 6 2.1. System Requirements ................................................................................ 6 2.2. Installation............................................................................................... 6 3.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Contents 3.8.4. 3.9. Color bar .................................................................................................... 29 The “Color” Panel .....................................................................................30 3.9.1. 3.9.2. 3.9.3. 3.9.4. 3.9.5. 3.9.6. 3.9.7. 3.9.8. 3.9.9. 3.9.10. 3.9.11. 3.9.12. 3.9.13. 3.10. Color set .....................................................................................................
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Contents 5.5.1. 5.5.2. 5.6. Set… .......................................................................................................... 53 OK / Cancel ................................................................................................. 53 Pilot Folder “Creation/Selection” Window .....................................................53 5.6.1. 5.6.2. 5.6.3. New Folder (Macintosh) / Create Folder (Windows) ...........................................
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Introduction 1. Introduction This document contains information on both the Macintosh and Windows ® versions of ARTS PDF Crackerjack™. Wherever appropriate, the differences are clearly indicated. If ARTS PDF Crackerjack is used with Adobe ® Acrobat ® 5.05 in OS X there are other differences which are clearly indicated as applying only to OS X usage. This document specifically covers the features in ARTS PDF Crackerjack 5.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Setup 2. Setup 2.1. System Requirements Regardless of platform, ARTS PDF Crackerjack requires that a PostScript printer/printer driver be selected before operation. Macintosh • • • • PowerMacintosh G3 or G4 Mac OSX 10.2 or higher Adobe ® Acrobat ® 5.05, 6.03 or 7.02 Adobe ® PostScript ® (or 100% compatible) output device Windows • • • • PC with Pentium processor Windows ® NT 4.0, Windows ® 2000 or Windows ® XP Adobe ® Acrobat ® 5.05, 6.03 or 7.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Setup To validate the license and/or to view the installation status, open Acrobat and view the “About Plug-Ins” box (on the Apple logo pulldown menu on the Macintosh, at the bottom of the Acrobat Help pulldown menu in Windows) for “ARTS PDF Crackerjack...”. The word “Demo” appears in the ARTS PDF Crackerjack “About” box when the version is not fully licensed version. To validate your license, click on the “Register...
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3. Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack To print using the software, select “Print with ARTS PDF Crackerjack...” from Acrobat’s “File” pulldown or the “Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Crackerjack” menu. Alternatively, you can launch ARTS PDF Crackerjack using “keyboard shortcuts”. On the Macintosh, hold down the “Command” (Apple) and “Shift” keys and then press the “C” key. In Windows, hold down the “Ctrl” and “Shift” keys and then press the “C” key.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.1.1. Use default settings file This control determines where ARTS PDF Crackerjack will get the default settings when it is launched for the first time during an Acrobat session or whenever the “Defaults” button is clicked. If left unchecked, ARTS PDF Crackerjack uses its internal defaults. The “Set...
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.1.7. Pilot These settings control the functions of ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot. • Check interval Specified in seconds, this determines how often Pilot will “poll” its input folders to see if a PDF file has been delivered for processing. • Disable when documents are open This option prevents Pilot from taking control of Acrobat to process files while the user is currently working on a PDF document.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.2. The “Preview” Window Figure 2. Preview window This window shows a representation of the page currently selected. It defaults to the page currently displayed in the Acrobat main window. In this window, the relationship of the imageable area, the PDF page and the media is displayed for the current selections for page size, media size, positioning, scaling, orientation, tiling and mirror and negative print.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack an “E” whose size represents the x-y extents of the imageable data on the selected page. A preview of a different page may be selected at the bottom of the preview window by either entering the desired page number in the fill-in box or by using the arrow keys. The down arrow corresponds to “page down” (higher page numbers), and vice versa.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.3. Embedding Fonts If the preference for checking non-embedded fonts is enabled, ARTS PDF Crackerjack will verify that all fonts in the current document are embedded before printing. If ARTS PDF Crackerjack finds that a font is not embedded, but that it exists on the current system, it will print normally by including the system font in the output.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack Figure 5.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.4. The “ARTS PDF Crackerjack” Window The icons in this window provide professional user control over the printed output. There are currently five icons: Target, Media, Options, Marks, and Color. Clicking on each icon will display a “panel” where user selections can be made. The first time that you enter ARTS PDF Crackerjack all items on the various panels are prefilled with the ARTS PDF Crackerjack default selections.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.4.2. Save Settings..., Load Settings... These buttons provide access to a standard folder/file selection mechanism. With this, you can save and name your ARTS PDF Crackerjack settings for each class of job that you routinely run. These predefined formats save you time, diminish the likelihood of error and its associated cost, and save you the trouble of re-experimenting to get jobs to come out the way you want.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.5. The “Target” Panel The Target panel allows selection of high-level job parameters. It also provides controls for the ARTS PDF Crackerjack environment. The entire set of ARTS PDF Crackerjack values can be managed using the “Defaults”, “Load Settings” and “Save Settings” buttons. The remaining items on the Target panel relate to parameters to be used for the print job. 3.5.1.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack button. There will be a list of printers already installed through the OS X Print Center. In Windows, with no default settings file, ARTS PDF Crackerjack’s default is the default printer in your Windows “Printers” folder. You may choose from any printer in the dropdown list and subsequently save it in your ARTS PDF Crackerjack defaults, or in another ARTS PDF Crackerjack settings file.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack to be saved in a PostScript file. When the Output button is selected, the standard system folder/file selection/naming mechanism is displayed. The file will be saved as PostScript Level 2 unless the “PostScript 3” box is checked. ARTS PDF Crackerjack creates PostScript files containing all of the information for the currently specified pages. 3.5.3.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack print pages 3 through 7). Commas and spaces serve as separators between page numbers (i.e. 3-7, 8-11 to print pages 3 through 7 and 8 through 11). Pages will print in the order specified. Ranges with a higher beginning page number than ending page number will print in reverse numerical order.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.6. The “Media” Panel This panel allows for media selection and provides some of the parameters for how the PDF page will be placed on the media. 3.6.1. Auto-size media When this box is checked, ARTS PDF Crackerjack will automatically set a media size which matches the current PDF page size plus any extra amounts specified by the “Border” parameter. Checking this box causes the list of media sizes in the Media box to become disabled.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack • Border With Auto-size Media selected, this function allows the user to specify how much additional margin should be added to each page on output. The specified value will be added to all four sides of each page. This is useful for accommodating ARTS PDF Crackerjack’s Printer’s Marks. 3.6.2. Media This scroll list allows for the selection of the media size to be used. This list is taken from the currently selected PPD.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack check, or proof, output on a desktop laser printer for a job which is intended to be run on a large format device for final output. Another application might be tiling different sections for billboards or theatrical scenery. When this option is selected ARTS PDF Crackerjack’s Preview window will display a representation of the tiled output.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.7. The “Options” Panel This panel allows for setting certain options which affect how the printed output will appear 3.7.1. Offsets These options allow for the repositioning of the PDF page on the media and the repositioning of the imageable area on the PDF page, both either vertically or horizontally. Positive offsets move the PDF page up or to the right. Negative offsets move the PDF page down or to the left.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack The offsets may allow some or all of the PDF page to be moved off the media. These offset changes are reflected in both the Preview window and in the PostScript output. If Printer’s Marks are selected, they will also be moved accordingly. • Image to page Occasionally, the repositioning capability provided above is still insufficient for the application.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack dimensions are scaled by the same amount. 3.7.3. Options • Mirror print This option allows you to invert the printing direction. To access this function click on the box. In the Preview Window this is represented as a mirror image. This option is useful for transfer processes and certain plate making approaches. • Negative print This option allows you to enable “reverse” printing. To access this function click on the box.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack • Scale Background When this box is checked the PDF document used as a background will be scaled to the same size as the PDF document being printed. When the box is not checked the background page will be printed at its original size, whether larger or smaller than the document being printed. However, if the background page is larger than the media size selected in ARTS PDF Crackerjack it will be cut off at the extent of the media.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.8. The “Marks” Panel The Marks panel allows for the selection of the remaining parameters that determine how the output will appear. 3.8.1. Printer’s marks This option turns on a number of items that are useful for print production. These items are printed outside the PDF page. They add approximately 0.5 inches to each side.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack • Registration mark type User selectable choice of concentric circles or cross style registration marks. • Offsets Allows the user to specify the position of crop and registration marks for each of the four sides of the page. This feature is useful in adjusting the crop marks for bleeds. 3.8.2. Crop and registration marks This check box determines whether the crop and registration marks are included in the output.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.9. The “Color” Panel The Color panel provides options to control the color rendition of the output. This panel also provides access to controls for Separations and Screening. Most of ARTS PDF Crackerjack’s settings may be deselected, allowing the user to rely on their RIP’s defaults. 3.9.1. Color set This is a scrollable list where the user may choose stored custom color settings.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack contains known color values as defined in Acrobat. This document may be printed successively with ARTS PDF Crackerjack, CMYK and spot ink percentages measured, and ARTS PDF Crackerjack transfer functions adjusted until measured percentages match the values in the document. Also, the RGB values may be used to fine tune ARTS PDF Crackerjack’s RGB conversion (GCR (black generation) and UCR).
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack RIP separations. The features available using this option are similar to In-RIP separations. Note: PDF files containing RGB data must have the data converted to CMYK before preseparated output can occur. ARTS PDF Crackerjack performs this conversion automatically, but because of the amount of data to be converted, files containing RGB images may take considerable time to process.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack To implement these capabilities in a fashion independent of RIP vendor, ARTS PDF Crackerjack relies on Adobe Accurate Screens, another standard feature of PostScript. Alternative RIP technology vendors, such as Harlequin, automatically substitute their versions of screening. • Frequency This drop-down list displays the line-screen frequency values from the currently selected PPD. The list will vary depending on the resolution selected.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack • Angle This list displays the screen angle value for each ink name. As with frequencies, unless edited (see below), the values are derived from the currently selected PPD. 3.9.6. Edit... This button activates a dialog box where values for frequency, angle and transfer function can be edited for each color in the inks list.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.9.8. All Spots to process When checked, ARTS PDF Crackerjack will generate PostScript output with all the spot color(s) in the job mapped into the appropriate percentages of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. 3.9.9. Use ARTS PDF Crackerjack RGB conversion When checked, this function causes ARTS PDF Crackerjack’s RGB conversion settings to be applied to the output. 3.9.10. Edit RGB Conversion...
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack those that are monochromatic. These impurities have their greatest effect in shadow areas and neutral colors. Their removal tends to add depth. Of the two approaches, and all else being equal, GCR uses more black ink and less cyan, magenta, and yellow than UCR. Refer to the Adobe Photoshop Users Guide for usage guidelines. Save and Load options allow you to save, name, and reuse your favorite settings.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack There are four predefined renderings: Relative Colormetric, Perceptual, Saturation, and Absolute Colormetric. You would probably select Relative Colormetric or Perceptual for image or picture intensive files. Saturation would be most appropriate for documents with a lot of business graphics (bar and pie charts).
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3.10. The Print Preview Window At the top of the window there are navigation buttons and a page range box. If the document has more than one page the buttons will become active. Alternatively, the user can type in a page number, then hit the “Enter” key on their keyboard to jump to that page. The print preview window initializes to the current output mode selected in ARTS PDF Crackerjack.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Printing with ARTS PDF Crackerjack initializes. Clicking on a button will turn off that ink. Clicking several buttons quickly will turn off/on multiple inks and eliminate unwanted redraws. If the cursor is held briefly over an ink button the ink name will be displayed. This may be particularly useful for identifying spot colors. Any settings in ARTS PDF Crackerjack that will affect the output will also be displayed here.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Converting RGB or CMYK to spot colors 4. Converting RGB or CMYK to spot colors New to Crackerjack 5 is a tool which allows you to convert any RGB or CMYK color in the document to a spot color. To activate the spot color conversion tool, select “Create Spot Color…” from the “Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Crackerjack” menu. You may also activate the tool by selecting “Create Spot Color” from the “Print Separations” toolbar. Figure 6. Print separations toolbar menu. Figure 7.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Converting RGB or CMYK to spot colors 4.1.1. Convert When “Tool selection” is used a sample of the selected color will appear in the window next to “Color:” When “Document Color” is selected the window changes to a drop-down list where all RGB and/or CMYK colors from text or graphic objects in the document are displayed. 4.1.2. Threshold Enter a value here to convert colors whose value is within the specified range from the selected color. 4.2.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 5. Using the Imposition Tool The imposition tool in ARTS PDF Crackerjack allows you to perform step-and-repeat, 2-up, 4-up booklets and n-up impositions on the open PDF document. To launch the imposition tool click on button on the Acrobat toolbar or select “Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Crackerjack > the Imposition…” from Acrobat’s Menu. Figure 8. Imposition Window 5.1.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 5.1.1.1. N-Up When imposing a multi-page PDF, selecting N-Up means that n-number of pages will be placed across and down on the new PDF page. If there are less pages in the original PDF than are required to fill the imposed page(s) then a blank page (or pages) will appear so that a full imposed PDF is created. To create multiple copies of a 1 page PDF use Step and Repeat instead.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot single sheet. In some scenarios this should greatly reduce the time to complete a job (as the numbers of passes through the printing press are reduced by half) and also maximize paper efficiency. 5.1.1.7. Cut Stacks Pages are ordered so that one pile can be cut in half and one half stacked upon the other. Pages can also be prepared for double or single sided printing by ensuring that the appropriate option is selected. 5.1.1.8.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 5.2. Media Tab This tab is designed for the user to specify the size of the output PDF file and to control scaling and the length of margins as required. Figure 9. 5.2.1. Media Tab Selecting a Media Size The imposed pages will be arranged on the media size selected in the list. If your required media is not listed, click Add to create a custom media size and enter the length and width as required.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot Pages are scaled according to the specified percentage. Scaling should be used to assist imposing pages where the sum total is larger than the actual media size. Fit to media size will either reduce or increase the scaling of the imposed pages to ‘Best fit’ within the sheet size and margins. When using fit to media size, the aspect ratio will always be retained. 5.2.3. Margins The bounding margins for the page can be specified here.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 5.3. Options Tab Figure 10. Options Tab 5.3.1. Printer’s Marks This option turns on a number of items that are useful for print production. These items are printed outside the PDF page. They add approximately 0.5 inches to each side. To ensure that these items are visible, choose a media size that is approximately one inch larger both vertically and horizontally than the PDF page size.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot • Registration mark type User selectable choice of concentric circles or cross style registration marks. • Include Mark the checkboxes according to the information you wish added to the page. ‘Inner Marks’ refers to the trim marks inserted between adjoining pages. Page description will add a short text description indicating sheet, fold, page number and whether the page is the front or back of the sheet. 5.3.2.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot back > … > sheet n front > sheet n back. • Fronts first, then backs The fronts of each sheet will be grouped first in ascending order, followed by the backs also in descending order. • Fronts first, then backs reversed The fronts of each sheet will be grouped first in ascending order, followed by the backs in descending order. • Flip backs of sheets The back sheets are output rotated 180 degrees.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot is a “hot folders” approach to automation. First you set up a ARTS PDF Crackerjack settings file and a group of associated folders, one for initial input, one as a destination for successfully processed jobs, another as a repository for unsuccessful jobs, and finally a destination for “Save to File” output.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 5.4. The “Pilot Folders” Window The first time that ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot is invoked, no Pilot Folder names appear in the list, and naturally the “Edit...”, and “Remove...” options are grayed out. In this case, only the “Add...” option makes sense. Click on the “Add...” button to define new hot folders. After the “Add...
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 5.4.3. Remove Deletes all references to the selected Pilot Folder. Note: that this does not delete the folder from your hard disk, only from the Pilot definitions. 5.4.4. Done This button closes the ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot window. All visible Pilot Folder definitions and associated information are saved. 5.5.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 5.5.1. Set… To make a Folder selection, the “Set...” button accesses the “Pilot Folder Selection” window. If you specify the Pilot Folder before specifying folders for Success, Excluded, and Output, then default entries for folders named Success, Excluded, and Output will be created inside the Pilot folder as soon as you click “OK”. Folder selections may be changed individually if so desired.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot Note: that using removable media drives with Pilot means that automation will fail if the media containing the Pilot folder is not mounted. 5.6.1. New Folder (Macintosh) / Create Folder (Windows) This button allows you to create a new folder at the location currently selected on the hard disk. 5.6.2. ‘Select “…”’ (Macintosh) / OK (Windows) Clicking this button confirms your selections. 5.6.3.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6. Using the Image Editing Tools 6.1. Overview The Images feature provides a set of tools for image management and editing within PDF documents. There are three ways to perform image manipulation in the Images feature. First is the management of individual images using the image selection tool and the available Image tools. Second is the handling of one or more images using Images Document Tools.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2. Using Images To use the Images feature, select the icon from the ARTS PDF Crackerjack toolbar. A black selection arrow will then be displayed. Click on any image with the selection tool to activate the Images feature. Once an image is selected there are three methods available for image editing or management. All of these are covered in detail in their respective sections of this manual.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.1. Preferences Figure 11. Preference Window Images preferences are set using the standard Acrobat method: Edit -> Preferences -> ARTS PDF Crackerjack > Images. The default selections are as shown in the picture above. Available choices for the Double-click Tool are: “Image Tools, “Edit Image”, “Document Tools”, “Despeckle”, “Extract Image”, or “Replace Image”.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.2. Undo Generally, one level of undo is supported for all Image functions except those functions performed on all, or a selected range of, images in a PDF document. Undo is activated by the standard “Control + Z” (Windows) or “Command+Z” (Macintosh) key sequence. Repeating the keystrokes does a redo. 6.2.3. Compression Methods Figure 12.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.3.2. LZW LZW compression can discover and exploit many patterns in its input data. The compression obtained using the LZW method varies from file to file; the best case (a file of all zeros) provides a compression approaching 1365:1 for long files, while the worst case (a file in which no pair of adjacent characters appears twice) can produce an expansion of approximately 50%. 6.2.3.3.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.4. Saving Changes For changes to be made a permanent part of the PDF document, the file must be saved. If the user attempts to close a document after having made changes, Acrobat will automatically prompt the user as to whether they want to save the document or not. Saving changes in this method certainly makes them a part of the document. However, the standard “Save” leaves the document in a non-optimized state.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.6. The Image Selection Tool icon from the ARTS PDF Crackerjack tool bar will activate the Selecting the image selection tool shown below. Use this tool to select an image to be edited. When an image is selected it will be highlighted by a dashed line around the image, plus eight small squares – one on each corner of the image, and one each at the center of the left, right, top and bottom edges.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot this manual. 6.2.7.3. Edit Image... This launches the Image Editor window. See the Image Editor section later in this manual. 6.2.7.4. New Image... This function allows the user to insert a new image into a PDF page. When using this function the user will have the option to select a compression type for the new image. See Compression Methods earlier in this manual. The supported image types are TIFF, or JPEG. 6.2.7.5. Extract Image...
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.7.8. Bring to Front Causes the currently selected image to be move in front of any other objects in the PDF. You may also simply click the “ [ ” key on your keyboard while an image is selected to bring an image to the front. 6.2.7.9. Send to Back Causes the currently selected image to be move behind any other objects in the PDF.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.8. The “Image Tools” Window The panels in this window provide information and user control over images. There are currently six panels: Info, Orientation, Color, OPI, Sample and Crop. Clicking on each tab will display a “panel” where user selections can be made. On panels where an “Apply” button appears changes made on that panel will only take effect after “Apply” is pressed. 6.2.8.1. Info Figure 13.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.8.2. Orientation Figure 14. Orientation Panel From this panel the user may move, scale, rotate, flip horizontally or flip vertically the currently selected image. Except for “Position” which uses the lower left corner, all changes made on this panel are made with respect to the center of an image. Position The functions in this section allow the user to fine tune the position or size of an image.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot Scaling This will scale the image by the percentage value entered in the box. To change the size of an image type in the scaling value desired, then click Scale. Mirror These two buttons will flip the image horizontally or vertically. 6.2.8.3. Color Figure 15. Color Panel – Color Conversion From this panel an image can be converted from its current color space to one of the color spaces in the “To” list.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot Figure 16. Color Panel – Contrast/Brightness Figure 17.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.8.4. OPI This panel allows the user to create, view, or alter the OPI information for an image. Upon confirmation, this information will update the appropriate OPI information stored inside the PDF. Figure 18. OPI Panel Note: Editing images with OPI information is potentially an exercise in futility since the purpose of OPI is to replace the image in the PDF with one on the OPI server at print time.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot system. Using the “Set” button will cause a file name to be placed in the OPI dictionary using the conventions and nomenclature of the current system, i.e.Windows format on a Windows system, Macintosh format on a Macintosh system. The Image feature does not perform any syntax checking to verify whether the input corresponds to a legal path format.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot should resample images when they are at a higher resolution than the intended output device supports. Note that images never resample to a higher resolution, only to a lower one. When subsampling an image, a pixel is selected in a sample to represent that area at the new resolution. You provide the resolution, and the Image feature selects pixels as needed to reduce the image’s resolution to the specified dpi setting.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot mask or clipping path may give unusual results. If this happens, the user may use “Undo” to restore the image to its state before the cropping was applied. Note: When an image is cropped the data is removed. It cannot be recovered except by an “undo” immediately following the cropping action.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.9. The “Image Editor” Window Figure 21. Image Editor This window shows a representation of the image to be edited. The initial view for the window is its minimum size so as to not obscure the underlying PDF page. Holding your mouse cursor over any of the tools in the tool bar will display a description of that tool’s function. When the Image Editor is launched the Zoom tool is selected by default.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.9.2. Grab The grab (hand) tool can be used to move the image within the window. Note that the hand tool is non-functional when the image fits entirely within the window. 6.2.9.3. Selection This tool is used to select an area of the image which can then be moved, cut, copied, or pasted. Once an area is selected you can move it within the current image by clicking, holding, then dragging it to the desired location.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.9.10. Select Color The eyedropper tool is used to select colors from within the current image. Clicking with the left mouse key selects the foreground color. In Windows, clicking with the right mouse key selects the background color. On the Macintosh, using Control+click selects the background color. 6.2.9.11.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.10. The “Document Tools” Window Figure 22. Document Tools Window When activated, this window will find and display a list of all images in the current PDF document. The list contains details on the PDF page number where each image exists, its uncompressed size in Kilobytes, its resolution and color space, as well as information on any OPI comments associated with the images.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot 6.2.10.3. “Go To” an Image Selecting an entry in the list then clicking “Go To” will cause the image selector to “jump to” that image. If you desire to work on that image, click “Close” (Windows) or “Done” (Macintosh) on the Document Tools window to return to the PDF page containing that image. 6.2.10.4. Applying Actions to Images After an image, or images, have been selected, the user may select an “Action” from the drop-down list.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Using ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot Replace Replace will only be available when one or more images have an OPI link. When this action is selected and the Execute button is clicked the user will first be asked to specify a folder to search for replacement images. A search is performed to find the specified OPI path to the replacement image. If the image is not found the search will continue through the specified folder and any subfolders looking for the image file name.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Troubleshooting 7. Troubleshooting 7.1. Forum Are you having a problem that you can’t find in the Frequently Asked Questions? Then perhaps you’ll find it on the ARTS PDF Forum. Visit the ARTS PDF Forum on our website at http://forum.artspdf.com. 7.2. Updates To ensure you are up-to-date with the most recently released bug fixes and new features; check that you have the latest version of ARTS PDF Crackerjack installed. To check if your version is the latest: 1.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide Troubleshooting 7.4. Technical Support Before contacting us please read the complete Troubleshooting section as the answer to your problem may be found in the FAQs or on the ARTS PDF Forum. To contact ARTS PDF Technical Support, please e-mail techsupport@artspdf.com and supply the information below to help us replicate the problem you are experiencing. a.
