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Rotated or skewed items that participate in a transparency relationship must be rasterized
before they are sent to the RIP. Because rotate and skew operations tend to degrade the
quality of an image if they are performed at low resolutions, QuarkXPress can upsample
such items prior to rotating or skewing them, thus minimizing image degradation. Check
Upsample Rotations if you want to manually set the upsampled resolution for rotated or
skewed items and images that are involved in a transparency relationship. If you're using
low-resolution values, and a rotated or skewed item appears blocky or degraded, check
this box and then enter a value in the To field. The To field value should be at least equal
to the highest resolution value among the Vector Images, Blends, and Drop Shadows
fields.
The dpi for images less than field lets you specify a value above which rotated or skewed
items are not upsampled. The purpose of this field is to prevent rotated or skewed items
that are near the Upsample Rotations To value from being needlessly upsampled. In
general, set this value to about 100dpi less than the Upsample Rotations To value.
To print items without taking their opacity values into account, check Ignore Transparency
Flattening. All items are treated as 100% opaque, regardless of the opacity value applied,
and drop shadows and picture masks are ignored. This option can be useful for
troubleshooting transparency-related output issues.
To control the resolution of the flattened transparency in imported PDF and Adobe
Illustrator files, enter a value in the Flattening Resolution field.
The flattener rasterizes an area only if that area includes a raster element such as a drop
shadow, a blend, a semiopaque picture, or a picture masked with an alpha channel. The
flattener does not rasterize areas of solid color (regardless of whether they are the result of
semiopaque layering) unless such areas are overlapped by a raster element.
JDF pane
Use the JDF pane to specify whether to save a JDF file from the project's Job Jackets
structure. When you check Output JDF, the Include Job Jacket Contact drop-down list
becomes available; choose a contact from among the Contact Resources in the project's
Job Jacket structure.
Advanced pane
In the Advanced pane, you can specify the PostScript level of the output device.
Summary pane
The Summary pane displays a summary of the settings in the other panes.
Page preview area
On Windows, the Print dialog box (File menu) for Print layouts provides a graphical
depiction of the output page called the page preview area. The page preview area does not
display the actual items on the layout pages or the specified pages; rather, it represents
the shape and orientation of the pages in relation to the target media.
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