Dimensioning Properties Toolbar ...................................................................................................................162
Book Four: Adding Color to the Design.......................................................................................... 167
Chapter 13: Current Style Affects the Color in the Design ........................................................ 169
Defining the current style .................................................................................................................................169
Setting the current style ....................................................................................................................................170
Setting the current style to none ......................................................................................................................170
Changing the current style using the Extract Style command ....................................................................170
Making a new current style without selecting an object ..............................................................................171
Assigning the current style...............................................................................................................................172
Creating filled text or objects without cutlines..............................................................................................172
Chapter 14: Making, Using, and Editing Palettes......................................................................... 175
Displaying palettes on the Composer work surface .....................................................................................175
Making a job palette using Gerber vinyl ........................................................................................................177
Using Palette Manager......................................................................................................................................179
Using Gerber palettes in Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW.....................................................................182
Chapter 15: Understanding Vinyl Colors ........................................................................................ 187
Displaying a vinyl palette.................................................................................................................................187
Assigning vinyl colors to objects .....................................................................................................................187
Selecting objects of the same vinyl color ........................................................................................................189
Chapter 16: Changing Vinyl Colors to Spot Foil Colors............................................................... 191
Posterizing methods..........................................................................................................................................191
Understanding the Posterize Selected Shapes dialog box............................................................................192
Posterizing a job.................................................................................................................................................195
Troubleshooting.................................................................................................................................................196
Chapter 17: Filling Objects with Colors for Printing.................................................................... 197
Where does the color come from? ...................................................................................................................197
Assigning attributes for printing .....................................................................................................................197
Filling with a clear fill........................................................................................................................................199
Filling with a spot foil .......................................................................................................................................199
Filling with a process foil..................................................................................................................................202
Filling with a gradient fill.................................................................................................................................204
Filling with Spectratone colors.........................................................................................................................207
Editing fill attributes..........................................................................................................................................209
Naming custom process colors ........................................................................................................................211
Changing from a spot fill to a process fill.......................................................................................................211
Automatically convert Process fills to Spot fills ............................................................................................212
Chapter 18: Choosing and Assigning Halftones........................................................................... 213
What is a halftone?.............................................................................................................................................213
Choosing the best halftone for the fill.............................................................................................................213
Non-Optimized Halftones Detected ...............................................................................................................216
Printing with Non-optimized Halftones when Auto-Substitution is On...................................................217
Assigning a halftone..........................................................................................................................................217
Editing halftones................................................................................................................................................218
Substituting halftones........................................................................................................................................218
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