10.1

On Mac OS X, the page preview area has been enhanced. The page preview area will display
the actual items on the layout pages or the specified pages; it represents the actual page.
• The blue rectangle represents the layout page.
• The green rectangle represents the imageable area for the selected media.
• A black rectangle represents the media area when a sheet-fed device is chosen in the PPD
drop-down menu (Device pane).
• A gray area surrounding the layout represents bleeds when a bleed setting is chosen using
the Custom Bleeds XTensions software (Bleed pane).
• If the page size, including crop marks and/or bleed, is greater than the imageable area of
the print media, a red area indicates portions of the layout that are outside the imageable
area and will therefore be clipped. If Automatic tiling is enabled in the Pages pane, the
red area does not display.
• An R will display for the Negative Print. Pages will rotate as per the orientation and the
paper size.
• The arrow to the left of the graphic preview indicates the film or page feed direction.
• To the left of the graphic preview are two smaller icons. The cut-sheet icon indicates that
you have selected a cut-sheet output device from the PPD drop-down menu (Device pane),
whereas a roll-fed icon indicates that you have selected a roll-fed output device from the
PPD drop-down menu. The question mark is a drop-down button that displays a legend
of the colors used in the page preview area.
• If registration marks are turned on (Registration Marks pane), they are also displayed in
the page preview area.
• If Thumbnails is checked (Pages pane), a preview with thumbnails displays.
Printing color separations
To print color separations:
1
Display the Color pane of the Print dialog box (File menu).
2
Choose Separation from the Mode drop-down menu.
3
Choose an option from the Setup drop-down list:
• The In-RIP Separations option prints all process and spot color plates and the output is
in the composite format. However, the PostScript file to be printed contains separations
information. The In-RIP Separations option must be selected only if you are using a
PostScript level 3 device. Note also that the Setup drop-down menu also contains all
separations-based output setups listed in the Default Output Setups dialog box (Edit >
Output Setups).
4
Choose an option from the Halftones drop-down menu:
• To use the halftone settings you specify, choose Conventional.
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