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• CMYK color values change. This is particularly noticeable with black and grays
which will then appear on all four separations rather than just the black
separation.
• Spot colors (and PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE colors) are separated to CMYK (and
color corrected) (see PANTONE Colors (on page 174) for more on PANTONE
COLOR BRIDGE).
Watch out for:
Ob
jects under totally transparent objects. Instead of using 100% transparency you
can use
NO COLOR (see The color line (on page 159) for how to apply NO COLOR).
• Text under a transparent object. Where possible, have text as the front object so
these problems don't occur.
Intermediate colors in blends and fills
This section applies to all blends and multicolor fills. That is, all fill types except flat.
Normally, a graduated color fill mixes colors using the RGB color model. The
exception is when both end colors are defined as CMYK. In this case, colors are mixed
in CMYK. One advantage of this for grayscale blends. An RGB gray is printed as a
mixture of the four CMYK inks. Defining the gray as a tint of CMYK black gives better
printed results.
Rainbow and Alt Rainbow mix colors using HSV.
Three-color, four-color, fractal and bitmap fills always output as RGB bitmaps and are
color-corrected. This means that any spot colors used in these fill types output to the
CMYK separations not to the spot separation.
Special rules apply for spot colors:
• In blends: If either end color is a spot color, you can do fade mixes but not
rainbow mixes (the reason is because you cannot alter the hue of a spot color).
• In fills: If either fill color is a spot color, you can do fade mixes but not rainbow
mixes.
• In blends: If both end colors are the same spot color (or tints of the spot color),
the blend outputs only to the spot separation.
• In fills: If both fill colors are the same spot color (or tints of the spot color), the fill
outputs only to the spot separation. Note: this does not apply to three-color, four-
color, fractal and bitmap fills which output only to the CMYK separations.
If you blend or fill from a spot color to a non-spot color, MAGIX Page & Layout
Designer 2013 creates the requested blend. For example, if you blend from cyan
(CMYK color) to gold (spot color) the cyan separation shows a blend from 100%
color to no color and the Gold separation shows no color to 100% color. This is