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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.
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
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