The Soft Proof Preview allows you to view a preview of a job on the screen. This visual check means that you can check before printing whether all the image elements are present and correct, whether the page assignments match and whether they have the right colors (process and spot colors). The preview can be a complete signature (front and back printing), single pages or even just one page in the separated TIFF format. The preview shows the screen data rendered for CTP imaging in Tiff-B format.
Various tools are available for viewing and measuring the preview images. You can use these tools for the following actions:
•Select single separations of process and/or spot colors or any combination of them.
•Change the CMYK screen display of spot colors,
•measure the geometry data (length and angle)
•measure colors (pixels or dot percentage of the current section).
•zoom the preview
•view the front and back of a sheet at the same time (with turn or tumble), for example, to check register accuracy
Keyboard controls for Soft Proof Preview
Shortcut | Function |
|---|---|
"Command key" + "+" | Select next scale up from the list. |
"Command key" "+ "-" | Select next scale down from the list. |
"Command key" + "Alt" + "N" | If the Viewer is open and an image is displayed, you can select a new image that you wish to view. If a bitmap is displayed, you cannot view its separations separately. |
"Command key" + "N" | If the Viewer is open and an image is displayed, you can select a new image that you wish to view. If a bitmap is displayed, you can view its separations separately. |
"Shift" + "+" | Show all process colors (only done when you release the Shift key). |
"Shift" + "-" | Hide all process colors (only done when you release the Shift key). |
"Alt" + "+" | Show all spot colors (only done when you release the Shift key). |
"Alt" + "-" | Hide all spot colors (only done when you release the Shift key). |
"Alt" + "F" | Show all colors on front and hide all colors on back (takes effect only when you release the Alt key). |
"Alt" + "H" | Show all colors on back and hide all colors on front (takes effect only when you release the Alt key). |
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