Transparency for Print Professionals

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1 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 1 Transparency for Print Professionals Cari Jansen Adobe Certified Instructor Thursday, 2 November 2006 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 2 Transparency for Print Professionals eSeminar Content What is transparency? Brief history Creating Transparency in InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat Print Workflows Creating PDFs Transparency & Flattening in InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat What have we learnt? Looking forward 3 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Transparency What is transparency? It’s like looking through coloured glasses It changes what you see All that lays behind the transparent object is affected But… If you remove the transparent object… All is back to what it was… That is LIVE transparency 4 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Transparency – Brief History Adobe InDesign InDesign 2 and higher Adobe Illustrator Illustrator 10 and higher PDF Adobe PDF v 1.4 and higher 5 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Transparency – Creating it… Adobe InDesign Drop shadows Feathering Transparency palette Placed graphics Adobe Illustrator Drop shadows, feathering Inner, Outer Glows Transparency palette Placed graphics PDF Adobe PDF v 1.4 and higher Adobe Photoshop Layered Photoshop files TIFFs included 6 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Transparency – Print Workflows Today Adobe PostScript No live transparency support This means Transparency flattened at some point Where must it be flattened? When must it be flattened? What happens when we flatten? How do we flatten? And in the future?

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