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1. Creating templates PERFECT PROOF Marker type Border 11 Choose File gt Save as and save your template as a stationery file st 3 in the ProofMaster Templates folder Change 12 In ProofMaster RIP select the queue in which you wish to use the template and do one of the following e Double click the ProofMaster queue e Choose File gt Queue gt Setup e Click the Queue Options button and choose Setup Queue 13 Click the Layout tab ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Creating templates PROOF 14 Select your template from the Template list Template Job ticket More info Point to elements to get more information if present 15 Click OK See also Creating and configuring ProofMaster queues gt Layout on page 52 in the ProofMaster RIP User Guide ProofMaster Editor User Guide Editing objects Chapter 4 Editing objects Topics In this chapter e Positioning matrix 68 e Rotate objects 69 e Mirror objects 71 Scaling objects 73 e Skew objects 75 e Glue 76 e Knife 77 e Round 78 Sharpen 79 Replace path part 80 PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Positioning matrix PROOF Positioning matrix In every Control palette for the Edit tools mirror rotate skew and scale you can use the positioning matrix to define the anchor that will be used as the point of origin By clicking on the squares symbolizing the
2. Choose Remove from the Layers palette menu Showing or hiding layers You can show or hide layers Sometimes you may want to view all or just a few or even none of the layers Every new layer which you create is visible by default The visibility of a layer is marked under the eye icon ProofMaster Editor User Guide Layers PERFECT PROOF Hide a layer 1 Open the Layers palette if not already open 2 Click the mark under the eye icon Show a layer 1 Open the Layers palette if not already open 2 Clickin the respective position under the eye icon Hide all layers 1 Open the Layers palette if not already open 2 Choose Non visible from the Layers palette menu Show all layers 1 Open the Layers palette if not already open 2 Choose All visible from the Layers palette menu By clicking the marks under the other icons you can define what actions will be enabled You can choose for the visibility if a layer is to be locked amp if a layer is to be printed amp and if a layer is to be cut out F The strength of layers lies in the security of separated objects and in the fact that you can print one layer and cut the objects of another layer Layers are typically used for print and contour cutting See also o Production gt Printing and contour cutting on page 137 MultiPage EPS You can open multipage EPS files in ProofMaster Editor Each page will be placed in a separate layer Using the Layers palette y
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4. Editor open your file which has a contour on a separate cutting layer Choose File gt Production Select the ProofMaster queue which you have set up for your printer Click the Document Setup tab l In the Marker type list select the specific marks for your cutting plotter for example OPOS marks aA uu A W 7 Select your plotter queue in the Plotter list Marker type OPOS marks 8 Select or specify the other document setup options and click OK ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Printing and contour cutting PROOF To add contours to an object Proceed as follows 1 If your object is a pixel image vectorize it first using the Vectorizing tool es 2 Select the outline of the vectorized object 3 Ifthe Xtra gt Outline command is dimmed choose Arrange gt Ungroup or Arrange gt Unmask Choose Xtra gt Outline In the Outline panel select or specify the following e Click the H button to create a contour around the selected object or click the Tl button to move an existing contour e Specify the offset for the contour from the outline of the object e Number of copies 1 O Manual Automatic Copies 1 Click OK If your object is a vectorized pixel image delete all vector elements except the outline of the image If necessary choose Window gt Layers to display the Layers palette Using the black selection tool amp click the contour of the object 10 With the
5. ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Rings PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Objects Images PERFECT PROOF Chapter 9 Objects Images Topics In this chapter e Images 120 e Importanimage 121 e Scanimages 122 e Imageinformation 123 e Choose image profile 124 Vectorize 126 Export RIP Script saving color edits 130 ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Images PROOF Images Supported formats Images are objects containing pixel and or vector information You can import images or directly scan from TWAIN compatible scanners You can open images of the following file formats e PS e EPS e DCS e PDF e TIFF e TIFF IT e PDF IT e nCT nLW e PNG e BMP e JPEG e RAW e DXF e HPGL e PSD e Al e PICT e SignCAS e Targa Some of these supported file formats are optional Check your configuration and consult your dealer for optional file format plug ins ProofMaster Editor User Guide Import an image PERFECT PROOF Import an image To import an image Do one of the following e Choose File gt Import select the image and click OK e Drag an image file from the Mac OS Finder or Windows Explorer onto the canvas ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Scan images PROOF Scan images You can directly scan from TWAIN supporting scanners The scanned image will be placed on the canvas of your document To select a scanner Choose Xtra gt Twain Select
6. VEC ONE ra a aoe aioe a 126 Export RIP Script saving color edits esesssecsssssessssscsssessecsssecsssscssssssecsecsssscsssscseesssecseesees 130 Production 0 ieicuviiinacebs AE AN E P E Production of ol cement nen enn ne eee AAEE ee ee 134 PUNUNG VSS cemana cuptinh cauasscns cst bacscts caus nvasatearentaves oni odees aes eheoeancariars ohare 135 Printing and contour CUTTING ssccsssssssssassesscoonnsnsseanonvenoovanvedaneasesansedvensnnen dobeven ndenenvevenonssvibenbvesesens 137 Slo el 1s E anne nee en ROOT OE OPT OP PT 140 PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Contents 01 0 a ProofMaster Editor User Guide Getting started Chapter 1 Getting started Topics In this chapter e Setup and preferences 12 e Document 16 e Views 19 PERFECT PROOF PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Setup and preferences Setup and preferences Preferences General You can find the preferences for ProofMaster Editor e In Microsoft Windows choose Edit gt Preferences e In Mac OS X choose ProofMaster Editor gt Preferences The General preferences contain several preferences which apply to the general behavior of the ProofMaster Editor You can change the following settings Constrain angle The constrain angle is the angle to which the movements will be limited when the Shift key is pressed Snap value The cursor will snap to guidelines points
7. appears 3 Select the option to place the peellines at half the text height or below every text line Peellines athalfthe Peellines below Original i i J text height each text line 4 Click OK to create peellines If you reposition the text make sure you reposition the peellines also ProofMaster Editor User Guide Crop tool Crop tool You can use the Crop tool to crop line art objects Crop by dragging manually 1 2 3 Select the line art object which you wish to crop Select the Crop tool from the Tools palette Drag a wireframe over the selected object You can resize the wireframe by selecting and dragging one of the handles al If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette Click Apply in the Control palette The selected object is cropped to the size of the wireframe PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Crop tool PROOF Crop numerically 1 Select the Crop tool from the Tools palette 2 Inthe Control palette specify the Result size of your wireframe 3 Click in the artboard Moving the crop wireframe 1 Move the cursor inside the crop wireframe The cursor changes into a black triangle 2 Hold the mouse button and drag the wireframe to the desired position Rotating the crop wireframe 1 Do one of the following e Leave the anchor point at the centered position in the wireframe e Click at a different position in the
8. be affected 1 Drag a color patch from the Style Color mixer or Color list palette 2 Dropiton the desired position on the gradient The dropped color is added to the gradient on the dropped position 1 Hold down the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS and drag a color patch from the gradient 2 Drop the color patch on the desired position on the gradient The dropped color is added to the gradient on the dropped position Drag the color patch out of the gradient slider and release the mouse button in the area just below Linear and Radial in the Gradient panel The color is removed from the gradient If there are no more than two colors the remove action will be cancelled PERFECT PROOF a aeLey dV ERI K mm tel ixe mUry mClUi e PERFECT Gradient nd 00 aoe Move color 1 Drag the color patch you want to move from the gradient Drop it on the desired position on the gradient The color will be moved to the new position in the gradient If there are not more than 2 colors than the move action will be cancelled ProofMaster Editor User Guide Gradient tool PERFECT PROOF Gradient tool About the Gradient tool You can use the Gradient tool to assign the current gradient to one or more objects 1 Select the objects to which the gradient must be assigned 2 Doone ofthe following e For linear gradients drag a line from the start to the end point e For radial gradients drag a line from t
9. check box the text will be displayed instead of the dimension width if you do not select the check box but just type text in the box the dimensions and the text will be displayed for example 13 mm wide You can set font used in the dimension box by choosing a default font in the prefer ences See also Getting started gt Setup and preferences gt Fonts on page 14 ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Creating templates PROOF Creating templates About templates You can create templates for photo contact sheets or photo album sheets The idea is that you 1 Create placeholders 2 Save your file as a stationery file A EA AAA XIXIE lt Ex lt B lt A Template for a photo album sheet B Template for a photo contact sheet ProofMaster Editor User Guide Creating templates PERFECT PROOF To create a template Proceed as follows 1 Do one of the following e Click the Placeholder tool K on the toolbar e Click the Crop tool or the Tile tool on the toolbar and hold down the mouse button until the Placeholder tool appears If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette Using the Placeholder tool K draw the placeholders on your artboard W You can also draw one placeholder and create copies using the black or E white selection tool and the Copy and Displacement functions in the Control palette 4 inthe Size tab of the Control palette specif
10. default ICC profile set in the ProofMaster preference for the queue Colors that can not be reproduced from one device to another must rely on gamut mapping This means that the best matching color will replace the non reproduc ible one All colors that are within the gamut of one device can be out of gamut of another device and thus be non reproducible ProofMaster lets you choose the best way of gamut mapping to replace a color that is not within the reproducible gamut to get the best results e By scaling one gamut to the other using the perceptual matching method all colors will be remapped within the other gamut to get an even transla tion for the best photorealistic reproduction e By moving only those colors outside one gamut into the other gamut by using the colorimetric matching method these colors will be remapped to the nearest reproducible color without remapping all colors This is more precise than scaling but will often result in an uneven translation To tag or untag a single image with an ICC profile 1 Double click an image 2 Click the ColorSync button al 3 Doone ofthe following e To tag an image with an ICC profile select the profile and a remapping method rendering intent Colorimetric or Perceptual e To untag an image remove the ICC profile click None 4 Click OK ProofMaster Editor User Guide Choose image profile PERFECT PROOF To tag multiple images with an ICC profile 1 Select all imag
11. greater than the value set the path will not be fluent at that point By default the angle is set at 60 If the value is set to 0 the contour will not be fluent at any point and so will create straight lines only The value for number of colors defines when or if a certain color is included in one path The greater the value the higher the amount of paths ProofMaster Editor User Guide Vectorize Set values Select the image you want to convert to vectors Select the Vectorize tool from the Tools palette Enter the vectorization values for the conversion in the Control palette A Ww N Click Apply Vectorizing bitmap images interactively Examples You can interact in the vectorizing process when you are going to vectorize bitmap images At this moment it is not possible to do this with color images The calculated paths will automatically resemble the background picture In the Control palette you can set the values for determining lines beziers when to create a corner and when to consider a color range to be of one path as you would do with color images described at the previous page The interaction lies in the fine tuning of the preview path that is calculated and applied after clicking Apply If you select the Vectorize tool and the image is a bitmap image black and white a cyan preview path will appear which you can alter as follows e Hold down the Shift key and click the path to add or delete poin
12. library Thus you can create sets of colors that can be opened for specific jobs 1 2 Add colors to or remove colors from the list Click Add library third button from the left A window appears to save your color list as a custom library Enter a name or save your color list as default library If you name it default ProofMaster will use the color sets in this library the next time it is started Save custom colors Save As Default Where _ Libraries HA fv cme ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Finding colors PROOF Finding colors 1 If necessary choose Window gt Color list to display the Color list panel Select the color which you wish to replace Click the Magnifier button in the Color list panel A dialog box appears in which the colors of the first library which are near enough are shown 4 _ Enter the maximum tolerance in AE distance in CIELab that the colors may vary from the original color 5 Select the desired library from the menu The colors shown are sorted by AE distance Select the color from the library Click OK to replace the color ProofMaster Editor User Guide Gradient Gradient Add color Duplicate color Remove color You can use the Gradient Editor to create gradients e If you drop a gradient patch on the Style palette the gradient will be applied to the currently selected objects e If you drop a patch directly on a object only the object will
13. lower part of the style palette shows the Cap amp Join style and the Patch action icons These patch actions let you switch the fill and stroke styles Patch action Default style Sets the Fill style to black and the Stroke style to none Patch action Switch style Switches the Fill and Stroke styles You can control the way angles between and endings from lines will behave By using the Cap option you can set the ending of a line Eg Straight cap The line ends straight through the point i Round cap The line ends around the point The cap size is defined by 1 2 of the line width f Square Defined as the round cap but square Using the Join option you can set the corner of an angle Sharp B P Round 7 Flat Gy Me A sharp angle can be defined by setting the miter limit to the level up to where the angle should be truncated Click the Dash Preview in the Style palette to invoke the Dash Editor Edit Dash T lo Reset Caneel OD PERFECT PROOF namely dV ERIK L ice mOry mClUi e PERFECT Patch actions nd 00 3 You can use the Dash Editor to create dashed lines By entering values for the drawn dashes and the whitespaces you can create custom dashed lines and apply them to paths Even odd Fill or Winding Fill You can define the type of fill by choosing Even Odd Fill or Winding Fill Winding Fill The Winding Fill style fills an object by establishing the direction of th
14. ment 4 Double click the end point A line is drawn between the two defined points replacing the original paths between the points 1 Select the Replace Path Part tool from the Tools palette Replace path part by bezier 2 Click the point that will become the start point of the replacement on a path 3 Click a second point on a path that will become the end point of the replace ment 4 Click the cyan preview line and drag this line to a bezier Handles will appear and after releasing the mouse button the bezier will be drawn between the two defined points replacing the original path parts between the points ProofMaster Editor User Guide Object special F X PERFECT PROOF Chapter 5 Object special F X Topics In this chapter e Extrude 82 e Distort 83 e Fisheye 84 e Perspective 85 ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Extrude PROOF Extrude g Using the Extrude tool 3 you can create objects with dimensions Every created object can get a 3D look with this tool 1 Select the object you want to convert to a three dimensional item 2 Select the Extrude tool in from your Tools palette A red box appears with one handle in the upper right corner 3 Doone of the following e Drag this point over your canvas A box will be created in which the depth of your new object will be placed e Enter the values for the displacement in the Control palette and click Apply After dragging or
15. point is going to be placed within the snap distance of another point a guideline or a magnetic grid point it will snap to that place If that particular point is an end or starting point of another path it will be joined The snap distance is set in the Proof Master Editor preferences To create a line that is constrained to a certain angle hold down the Shift key The constrain angle is set in the preferences ProofMaster Editor User Guide Path Tool See also Getting started gt Setup and preferences gt General on page 12 e Getting started gt Setup and preferences gt Grid on page 14 Creating beziers or circular paths Creating beziers or circular paths is easy and precise because of the extra function ality of key combinations There are more ways of creating circular paths than by drawing it manually but the basics described below give you a powerful tool to create different objects Proceed as follows to turn a path into a bezier 1 Using the white selection tool select a path 2 Select the Path tool from the Tools palette 3 Click the selected path hold down the mouse button and drag a bezier A The selected line will be transformed into a bezier Handles will appear from the points that define the start and end of the path See also Creating objects gt Circle and ellipse on page 39 Key combinations You can use different key combinations to create different path types e Dragging with
16. proportionally hold down the SHIFT key e To copy the object while scaling hold down the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS Scale numerically Select the objects you wish to adjust Click the Seale tool i from the Tools palette If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette bh WN Click the position from where you wish to scale or fill in this position numeri cally in the Control palette An anchor appears on this position 5 You can enter new dimensions in the Control palette in two ways e Size Enter the horizontal and or vertical dimensions the corresponding percentual scale will be calculated automatically ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Scaling objects PROOF e Percentually You can enter the percentual enlargement or reduction as well the corresponding sizes will be calculated automatically To scale the object proportionally click the Link symbol 2 6 To create scaled copies enter the number of copies 7 Click Apply ProofMaster Editor User Guide Skew objects PERFECT PROOF Skew objects 2 Skewing objects in two directions You can skew objects horizontally and or vertically Skew by dragging manually 1 Select the object which you want to skew 2 Select the Skew tool 2 from the Tools palette 3 Click the point from where the object must be skewed An anchor will be shown on that position 4 You can do the following e Drag the cursor
17. the smallest width K and height value of the original Average Objects pasted adjusted x to the average width x and height value of the original ProofMaster Editor User Guide Copying and replacing objects PERFECT PROOF Original objects Objects replaced Command by the copied object Biggest Objects pasted adjusted to the biggest width and height value of the orig inal ores Objects pasted adjusted p to fit the exact height K and width values of the original ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Pasting copied objects between two endpoints of an object PROOF Pasting copied objects between two endpoints of an object Paste Special You can paste objects between two endpoints of an object To do this you have to define e Two endpoints in the object that is to be cut or copied e Two endpoints in the target path where the object in the clipboard must be pasted in between CING Source Target Result Proceed as follows 1 Select an object or a group of objects with two endpoints 2 Cutor copy the object s onto the clipboard 3 Select an object or a group of objects with two endpoints where the item s stored in the clipboard has to be pasted in between Choose Xtra gt Paste Special Select the option to rotate or mirror the object that is to be pasted and click OK ProofMaster Editor User Guide Aligning objects PERFECT PROOF Aligning objects About aligning o
18. to skew the object se e To restrict the skewing direction to strictly horizontal or vertical hold down the SHIFT key e To copy the object while skewing hold down the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS Skew numerically Select the object which you want to skew Select the Skew tool 02 from the Tools palette If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette bh WN Do one of the following e Click the point from where the object must be skewed e Fill in the coordinates of the anchor in the Control palette An anchor will be shown on that position Specify the horizontal and vertical skew angles To create skewed copies enter the number of copies Click Apply namely dV ERIK e LATT PERFECT Glue PROOF Glue 4 About glueing Points can be glued together by means of a path This path will be drawn between two points thus connecting them Glue line between points 1 Select the Glue tool Pa from the Tools palette 2 Click one point that you want to connect to the next 3 Click the second point A path will connect the two points Joining points within each others snap distance Two points can be joined when they are within each others snap distance Proceed as follows 1 Select the Glue tool from the Tools palette 2 You can do one of the following e Drag a selection frame using the white selection tool and capture two points that are supposedly within eac
19. tool E lets you apply 3D effects to your objects by the means of altering the angles on the XYZ axis Create perspective manually 1 Select the object s you want to alter 2 Select the Perspective tool Be from the Tools palette 3 Click the canvas and hold down your mouse button A red preview grid will appear Drag to get the right perspective Release the mouse button when the right perspective is reached Create perspective numerically Select the object s you want to alter Select the Perspective tool E from the Tools palette Enter the values for the XYZ angles in the Control palette A WN Click Apply ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Perspective PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Object Actions PERFECT PROOF Chapter 6 Object Actions Topics In this chapter e About the Actions palette 88 PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide About the Actions palette About the Actions palette Connect and Split Round and Sharpen You can use the Actions palette to apply conversions to points and paths To display the Action palette choose Window gt Action The Action palette appears Ad uw oe amp yy mE Kt a Whenever you select or define an action this action will be stored in the memory for further use Thus the measuring and applying of the distance or angle between points can be applied to multiple objects consecutively In all cases you first sel
20. wireframe to set the anchor point ut A A Anchor point around which the object is rotated 2 Move the cursor outside the wireframe and rotate the crop wireframe by drag ging ProofMaster Editor User Guide Tile Tool Tile Tool Function The Tile tool m shows the maximum tile size and the tiling overlap in the Control palette To view where the tiles fall on a document 1 Do one of the following e Click the Tile tool 1 on the toolbar e Click the Crop tool or the Placeholder tool K on the toolbar and hold down the mouse button until the Tile tool appears Enter a Maximum Tile Size in the Control palette Click Apply To resize tiles Do one of the following e Click and drag the border of a tile e Double click the border of a tile and enter the measurements in the Divider Position dialog box to position the tiles where you want them To mark a tile for printing Clicking inside a tile once places an X in it and indicates that you do not want to print that tile Clicking the same tile again removes the X and allows you to print the tile See also Getting started gt Setup and preferences gt Tiles on page 14 Production gt Printing tiles on page 135 PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Color Info Tool nd 040 aoe Color Info Tool o Function You can use the Color Info tool key to measure the color values at the mouse pointer position You can view color
21. 0 Color O _ Coor E m A al O CMYK RGB C o E Fi HLS Mu 0 m Gray ka A Y a 100 Lab Cobr Space Frofik T E KEE Cobr LCD fp wl DA Add calibrated color space 1 Click the ColorSync symbol next to the Color space pop up menu A dialog box appears listing all the ColorSync 2 0 ICC profiles which are installed in the ColorSync Profiles folder You find this folder in the Prefer ences folder 2 Select the profile that describes the color space of the device of which you want to create colors 3 Click OK to add the color space If a color is mixed in a calibrated color space and you switch to another calibrated color space the color will be matched automatically Color Picker If you select the RGB color space from the menu you can access the Apple Color Picker 1 Click Picker just below the color sliders The default Apple Color Picker appears 2 Using the color picker compose a color The values you enter here will automatically be used in ProofMaster The exact values can be translated to all other color spaces available in ProofMaster 3 Click OK to add the color space ProofMaster Editor User Guide Color mixer Transparency Overprint You can set transparency for any color that is selected or composed This means that you are able to use transparency for that color in your design and ultimately on your prints If you want to use overprint instead of trapping you can activate ove
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23. OOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Overview of object types Overview of object types Below is an overview of the most common objects that you can create with Proof Master Editor CO G X a Text Rectangle Ellipse Multigon Star Path sketched Text Text on path Compound Image Dimensioning ProofMaster Editor User Guide Circle and ellipse Circle and ellipse 2 An ellipse is drawn in an imaginary rectangle By defining the rectangle the maximal ellipse is calculated and drawn within this rectangle Create an ellipse manually 1 2 3 Select the Ellipse tool from the Tools palette Drag the ellipse You can do the following e Hold down the Shift key while dragging to create a circle The X radius and the Y radius will be the same e Hold down the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS while dragging to start from the middle point instead of the upper left corner Create an ellipse numerically 1 2 3 Create a pie manually 1 Select the Ellipse tool from the Tools palette If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette You can now do the following e To create an ellipse enter the desired centre values in the Control palette Enter the desired x radius and y radius e To create a circle click the Link symbol both values will be the same e To create a pie fill in the values of the angles and select Wedge e To create an
24. RL key Hold down the Command and then press the key and then press the spacebar spacebar Zoom out Hold down the spacebar Hold down the spacebar press the ALT key and and then press the Option then press the CTRL key key Magnify an area of the document 1 Select the Magnifying Glass tool from the Tools palette 2 Draga selection frame around the area you wish to magnify 3 Release the mouse button The area will be shown in the maximum magnification which still shows the complete area PERFECT PROOF PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Views In the lower left corner of the document window you will find three ways to quickly change the magnification There s also an infobox for page number indication in case of a multiple page document the active page is displayed the arrows besides can be used to toggle between pages in the last box the selected object dimen sions are displayed 200 eaa 1A You can do one of the following e Click the Small Mountain or Big Mountain button to reduce increase the magnification by factor 2 e Click the magnification percentage indicator and select a magnification factor e Choose View gt Fit page to place the canvas fit in your window e Choose View gt Zoom 1 1 to have the canvas shown at 100 Illustration Preview and High Resolution mode ProofMaster Editor lets you view your work in preview or illustration mode The illus tration m
25. Source 2 Select your scanner and click Select To scan an image 1 Choose Xtra gt Twain Acquire The Twain scan preview window of your scanner manufacturer appears For information on how to scan or set up your Twain preferences refer to the user documentation of your scanner 2 Select the area which you want to scan and click Scan ProofMaster Editor User Guide Image information PERFECT PROOF Image information You can see specific information about an imported or scanned image Using the black Selection tool double click the image The Image info dialog box shows you the following information about the image Space CMYK Profile ISO Coated Width 319 Height 424 Size 541024 Location on disk Properties Transparency mum y C Overprint _ Transformed PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Choose image profile Choose image profile About image profiles To use color management effectively you have to use a profile and apply it to all color pixel images You can either assign profiles to images individually or apply one profile to all present images Make sure you use the correct profile e Use the monitor profile if you use images of which the color information is based on the monitor s view e Use the scanner profile for original unedited images obtained through a scanner If you choose not to assign a profile and start to print the image ProofMaster will assign the
26. ag the selected handle so that the bezier can get the correct shape If you release the mouse button the bezier is adjusted ProofMaster Editor User Guide Text Tool PERFECT PROOF Text Tool Combined use of the text tool and text related palettes You can easily and accurately place text by using of the Text tool in combina tion with the Control palette the Text palette and optionally the Tabulator palette and Style palette Open all text related palettes to take full advantage of this option 1 If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette 2 Choose Window gt Text 3 Choose Type gt Tabulator You can start to type text from any point Text is put in text boxes or can be placed on paths Within boxes you can define the alignment and tabulator values You can also align the text boxes or align text on paths Place text Before actually typing the text you should define the text specifications in order to see direct result You can always alter the specifications afterwards You can either choose for text in a predefined box or you can type your text directly In the latter case a box will be created outside the text you have typed These boxes are for selection purposes only and will not be printed Proceed as follows Select the Text tool from the Tools palette In the Text palette select a font from the Font list Specify the font size and if necessary the line spacing If necessary
27. arc segment fill in the values of the angles and do not select Wedge Click Apply Create an ellipse A marked point will appear at the most right centre of the circle Drag the point to create a pie PERFECT PROOF a aoLey dV ERIK am tel ice Ory mm ClUi e PERFECT Creating a three point circle PROOF Creating a three point circle You can create a circle or a circular path by using the three point circle When the three point circle tool is active you can create a circle by defining three points Create a three point circle manually 1 Click the Circle tool on the Tools palette and hold down the mouse button 2 Select the Three point circle tool O 3 Click at three positions in your document The three point circle will automatically be drawn You can create a circular path by shift clicking the points Create a three point circle numerically Using the Control palette you can create a circle numerically 1 If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette 2 Click the Circle tool on the Tools palette and hold down the mouse button 3 Select the Three point circle tool 4 Fill in the values and coordinates in the Control palette and click Apply ProofMaster Editor User Guide Multigon Star PERFECT ds 010 oe Multigon Star lt 4 Create a multigon or star manually 1 Click the Circle tool on the Tools palette and hold down the mouse button 2 Select the Multigon Star to
28. bjects You can align selected object s using the Align palette as follows ii Sekction a C Document FGHiI J A Align to the left bound B Align to the right bound C Centre vertically D Distribute vertically E Stack objects vertically F Align to the top bound G Align to the bottom bound H Centre horizontally I Distribute vertically J Stack objects horizontally Align with selection If you click Selection in the Align palette the objects you selected are aligned rela tive to each other Align with document If you click Document in the Align palette the objects you selected are aligned rela tive to the document For example if you want to put an object in the upper left corner of your document proceed as follows 1 Select the object 2 Select Document in the Align palette 3 Click the and buttons ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Aligning objects PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Creating objects PERFECT PROOF Chapter 3 Creating objects Topics In this chapter e Overview of object types 38 e Circle and ellipse 39 e Creating a three point circle 40 e Multigon Star 41 e Rectangle 42 e Sketch Tool 43 e Path Tool 44 e Text Tool 47 e Putting texton a path 49 e Using tabs 51 e Using peellines 52 e Crop tool 53 e TileTool 55 e Color Info Tool 56 e Annotation tool 57 e Dimension Tool 58 e Creating templates 60 PERFECT PR
29. choose Window gt Color to display the Color palette Select the text color in the Color palette a uu fF WN Click on the canvas and type your text Drag text box You can also drag a text box and define its size in the text Control palette Proceed as follows 1 Make sure that no text is currently selected 2 Select the Text tool from the Tools palette 3 Drag a text box on your canvas 4 Specify the properties of the text box in the Control palette for example the size of the text box and the text alignment PERFECT PROOF Define style ProofMaster Editor User Guide Text Tool UI Click Apply OV Type your text in the text box You can set the text style in the text Control palette By filling out specific values you can adjust the text spacing if the text has to be condensed or italic Below are some examples of text with a specific style normal text spaced text 3 mm condensed text 60 condensed text 130 Mt tert 0 audi Wend 10 Meaning jae ede text a the space between characters s e the stretch above 100 means extended text text ProofMaster Editor User Guide Putting text on a path Putting text on a path Text on path You can place text on paths also on paths that are in a compound A compound is a group of objects put together as if it concerns one object 1 Select the Text tool from the Tools palette 2 Move your cursor over a path or a compou
30. contour still selected click the b button in the Layers palette and choose New to create a new layer W You may wish to double click the new layer in the Layers palette and wa change its name to indicate that this is a layer intended for contour cutting ProofMaster Editor User Guide Printing and contour cutting PERFECT PROOF 11 Click the gt button in the Layers palette again and choose Move to current layer 12 Click the bullets in the Layers palette e Set layer 1 for printing only e Set layer 2 the cutting layer for cutting only 13 Save your file See also Object extra options gt Outline on page 110 a meLey dV ERI K am tel ice mOry mClUi e PERFECT Editor Basics nd 040 aoe Editor Basics Before starting to produce your output you have to assign the profiles Also a profile for your printer media and ink has to be set in the ProofMaster RIP Setting up your job Open a file Choose File gt Production Select the ProofMaster queue to which you want to print Specify the number of copies and the page range to print U A WwW N Click the following tabs to check and if necessary change the settings e 0 Media e Document setup Separations e T Tools Media You can specify the paper size and paper source in the Media tab Document setup In the Document Setup tab you can specify what you want to print exactly and specify its size and position Yo
31. corners All selected corners will be converted to fluent circle parts If no corners are selected then corners that are clicked will be rounded The conversions will only be done when applied to paths if you have selected a mathematical object and want to apply the Round function on it you have to convert the object to paths by choosing Xtra gt Convert to path 1 U A W N Select the corner s you want to round with the white selection tool Select the round tool from the Tools palette If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette Insert the value in the Control palette that stands for the round distance Click Apply ProofMaster Editor User Guide Sharpen PERFECT PROOF Sharpen 3 Using the Sharpen tool B you can convert multiple consecutive lines and beziers in one path to a point This point straightens the paths in between SON ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Replace path part PROOF Replace path part The Replace Path Part tool lets you replace certain path parts by lines or beziers Thus you can easily change the shape of an object by defining two points on a path and replace it by one line or bezier Replace path part by line 1 Select the Replace Path Part tool from the Tools palette 2 Click the point that will become the start point of the replacement on a path 3 Click a second point on a path that will become the end point of the replace
32. corners of an imaginary frame around the selected object s you can easily place the anchor on an exact spot The symbol right under the positioning matrix is to place the anchor on the centre of gravity The centre of gravity is the visual centre of the object s A Anchor used as point of origin B Anchor placed on the centre of gravity ProofMaster Editor User Guide Rotate objects PERFECT PROOF Rotate objects gt You can rotate objects around an arbitrary point Rotate by dragging manually Rotate numerically 1 Select the objects which you want to rotate 2 Select the rotate tool from the Tools palette 3 Click the point around which the object must be rotated An anchor point will be shown on that position 4 Place the cursor on the second point of the imaginary axis and drag the axis until you reached the desired angle 5 To usea constrain angle hold down the SHIFT key while dragging The angle will be constrained to 15 or the value you set in the Preferences 6 To copy the object while rotating it hold down the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS while dragging The cursor changes into a double cursor indicating that a copy will be made when you release the button See also Getting started gt Setup and preferences gt General on page 12 1 Select the objects which you want to rotate 2 Select the rotate tool from the Tools palette 3 _If necessary choose Window gt Contr
33. d Document Shows technical description and numbers of contents 2 Click Close to confirm the changes Save The first time you save an untitled document save as is automatically invoked Save can only be used when a document has been saved before Choose File gt Save Save as When you want to store the document in another format or when you want to store the document using another name you can use Save as 1 Choose File gt Save as 2 Enter the name and choose the format in which you want to save the docu ment 3 Select the folder where you want to store your document and click Save Besides saving your document as a PostScript or ProofMaster file you can choose to create a stationery file A stationery file is a file that you can open as an untitled document to be used as a template Proceed as follows to create a default stationery file 1 Start ProofMaster Editor 2 Choose File gt Document Setup PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Document PROOF 3 Checkand if necessary change the settings for example the document format or orientation portrait landscape 4 Choose File gt Save as and save your file as Default stationery in the Proof Master folder 5 Quit and restart ProofMaster Editor The default stationery will now be used each time you start ProofMaster Editor ProofMaster Editor User Guide Views PERFECT PROOF Views Basic elements Bef
34. diting tools e Mirror and Scale tool e Skew and Rotate tool Special tools Advanced Editor only ral e Vectorize and Gradient tool e Glue tool and Sharpen Round tools e Special FX tools and Replace Path Part tool Sizing tools e Crop Tile and Annotation tool e Eyedropper and Measurements Dimensioning tool e Hand and Zoom tool Use the Hand tool to reposition your entire canvas instead of using the scroll bars You can use a key shortcut to temporary switch to the hand from any tool by pressing the space bar Use the magnifying glass to magnify or reduce the view of the document 1 Select the Magnifying Glass tool from the Tools palette 2 Clickin the middle of the area from which you want a magnified view If you want a reduced view hold the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS while clicking ProofMaster Editor User Guide Views Two symbols can appear within the cursor of the magnifying glass e The sign tells the new view will be magnified e The sign tells the new view will be reduced You have reached the maximum or minimum magnification if there is no symbol at all You can also drag a frame for the area you want to magnify and use key shortcuts Key shortcuts You can use a key shortcut to temporary switch from the tool you are using to the hand and zoom tool Do this in Windows Do this in Mac OS Switch to the Hand Press the spacebar Press the spacebar tool Zoom in Hold down the CT
35. e information to correctly translate the colors and they have to be assigned to partic ular data in order to let color management do its work ProofMaster Editor seeks ProofMaster Production on the network or at the system There has to be a computer running ProofMaster Production in order to send data to the printer plotter The production tool in ProofMaster Editor enables you to set dimensions options such as spacing and cutting marks tools and output specifics ProofMaster Editor User Guide Printing tiles PERFECT PROOF Printing tiles Dividing jobs into tiles If your image exceeds your media size you have to divide your job into tiles These tiles can be printed separately and later put together to get the complete image See also Creating objects gt Tile Tool on page 55 To define tiles Proceed as follows 1 Do one of the following e Click the Tile tool ffi on the toolbar e Click the Crop tool or the Placeholder tool K on the toolbar and hold down the mouse button until the Tile tool appears If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette In the Control palette specify the size of the tiles and the tiles overlap Click the arrow buttons to specify the direction of the overlap U A W N Click Apply The tiles appear on your document The solid lines are the tiles themselves the dashed lines indicate the overlap space 6 Using the Tile tool fi you can now do th
36. e following e To change the position of a tile by dragging click the solid tile line and drag it e To change the position of a tile numerically double click the solid tile line and specify the Divider Position e To prevent a tile from being printed click the respective tile A cross will be placed over the tile indicating that this tile will not be printed W You can also specify the default tile size in the Preferences See also o Getting started gt Setup and preferences gt Tiles on page 14 a meLey dV ERIK am eli ce Ory mClUi e PERFECT Printing tiles PROOF To print tiles Proceed as follows 1 Choose File gt Production Select the ProofMaster queue to which you want to print Click the Document Setup tab E _ In the What list select Manual tiles A Ww N 5 Ifnecessary select the option Print tile overlap lines 6 Select or specify the other document setup options and click OK ProofMaster Editor User Guide Printing and contour cutting PERFECT PROOF Printing and contour cutting About contour cutting You can create contours around objects and use them for contour cutting on a cutting plotter with their specific marks for example OPOS marks The cutting option is needed if you want to drive cutting machines 2g Lg To contour cut your design Proceed as follows 1 In ProofMaster RIP create a ProofMaster queue for a cutting plotter 2 In ProofMaster
37. e path that it encounters Every time a path is encountered that has the same direction as the previous path the enclosed area will be filled If however a path is encountered with the opposite direction the enclosed area will not be filled Ei Even Odd Fill The even odd fill rule supposes that you draw a line between a point inside the shape outline x and a point y outside its outline If that line crosses the line of the shape an odd number of times the shape area to which the point x belongs is filled If the number of crossings is even the area is not filled y ProofMaster Editor User Guide Color PERFECT PROOF Color You can create colors by using the Color mixer or you can select colors from the Color list When you drop a color patch on the Style palette the color will be applied to the currently selected objects When you drop a patch directly on an object only that object will be affected ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Color mixer nd 040 aoe Color mixer Using the Color mixer you can create a color in uncalibrated CMYK RGB and HLS The Color mixer also supports calibrated colors Monitor RGB and CIELab are avail able by default The monitor RGB is taken from the Control palette ColorSync system profile By shifting the handles you can mix the color you want By filling out the boxes you can also enter specific values to compose your color Calibrated colors Color
38. e point instead of the upper left corner hold down the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS while dragging Create a rectangle numerically 1 Select the Rectangle tool from the Tools palette If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette Fill in the desired top left corner values Fill in the desired width and height To create a square click the Link symbol amp both values will be the same aA uu AWN Click Apply Edit rectangles numerically 1 Using the black selection tool select the rectangles you want to change Select the Rectangle tool from the Tools palette If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette Fill in the desired height and width Click Change U A W N ProofMaster Editor User Guide Sketch Tool PERFECT PROOF Sketch Tool Sketch modes You can use the Sketch tool to draw lines There are three different sketch modes NIN Freehand mode ARP Stroke mode AAS Calligraphic pen mode Freehand mode hairlines 1 Select the Sketch tool from the Tools palette 2 Select the Freehand mode g in the Control palette 3 Drawa hairlined path Stroke mode Select the Sketch tool from the Tools palette Select the Stroke option A in the Control palette Enter the desired minimum and maximum pen width in the Control palette A Ww N Draw a stroked path Calligraphic mode Select the Sketch tool from the Tools palette Select t
39. ect the path or point and then apply the action You measure the angle or distance select the action and then apply it by clicking the points you want to have adjusted By Shift clicking your can apply the action to more than just one pair of points i Connects selected points with the same coordinates or that are within the nap distance If two points are selected that are not within the snap distance a line will be drawn between them Se Splits a path at the selected points Rounds a selected angle See Editing objects gt Round on page 78 K Replaces multiple paths by an angle See Editing objects gt Sharpen on page 79 Style measure and apply A If an object is selected and has a certain style you can measure the style by clicking the Measure style action button The measurement will be stored in memory This means all style settings such as fill stroke cap join font corps etc A If a style is stored in memory after using the Measure style action you can apply this style to the objects of your choice All style settings will be applied to the selected objects when clicking Apply style ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT About the Actions palette PROOF Proceed as follows to measure the style from one object and apply the style to another object 1 Select the object of which you want to measure the style 2 Click the Measure style button Ea 3 Select the object to which to want to apply the sty
40. er the shape like any other path This function comes in handy when you have created objects or text from which you wish to edit certain parts To convert an object to paths 1 Select the vector object which you want to convert to paths 2 Choose Xtra gt Convert to path The selected objects will be converted to a path from which you can edit each part Text Toxt Plain text Text converted Edited paths to paths PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Make pattern PROOF Make pattern About patterns You can open or create artwork and use this artwork as a fill pattern for objects or even text which you create in ProofMaster Editor You can create patterns from line art but also from pixel images ProofMaster Text with a fill pattern created from a pixel image To make a pattern Proceed as follows 1 Open or create the artwork which you want to use as pattern 2 Select the object s and choose Xtra gt Make Pattern 3 If necessary choose Window gt Color to display the Color palette The pattern which you have just created is added to the Color palette A A Pattern in the Color palette You can now type text or create new objects using the ProofMaster Editor drawing tools and use the fill pattern you have just created ProofMaster Editor User Guide Expand strokes PERFECT PROOF Expand strokes About expanding strokes You can use the function Expand strokes to convert
41. es in your job Choose Xtra gt Assign profiles Click the ColorSync button for the color space of your choice Select an ICC profile uu A W N If necessary select a remapping method rendering intent for vector graphics and images 6 Click OK PERFECT PROOF LUE e OLATA Vectorize Vectorize About vectorizing images Line tolerance Bezier tolerance Create corner at Number of colors You can vectorize images This means that the bitmap data will be converted to paths These paths are created according to the amount of colors you want to consider being of one path Vectorizing is useful if want your image to be cut out on a plotter The calculated paths will resemble the background picture automatically In the Control palette you can set the values for determining lines beziers when to create a corner and when to consider a color range to be of one path The line tolerance defines the extent to which lines will need to get around points sticking out or cutting into the picture The value is set in points or pixels the same pixels which make up the image The bezier tolerance indicates by how many points points which make up the image the bezier curves may deviate from the calculated lines The greater the tolerance the fewer the amount of beziers The setting Create corner at indicates the extent to which the transitions in the paths must be fluent If two successive lines form an angle that is
42. ew document yourself Choose File gt New An Untitled document appears See also Save as stationery on page 17 Adjust the document size 1 Choose File gt Document Setup You can change the size as follows You can select a predefined size from the list or enter a custom width and or height Select portrait or landscape Scale objects Scale the objects on the active page to the docu ment size You can scale the objects proportion ally meaning that width and height will be scaled with the same scaling factor Calculates the smallest bounding box around the objects with an optional border This border can be an absolute value or a percentage of the bounding box size The default is 0 no border 2 Click OK If you choose to enlarge your document you can check scale objects to have the objects already placed in the document scaled along with the document ProofMaster Editor User Guide Document Information about a document Save the document Save as stationery Information is added to a document so applications like Cumulus or Fetch can find and locate files using this information 1 Choose File gt Document Info A window appears in which the following information is shown or can be changed Fonts Shows the fonts which are used in the document Description A text page with information about the document for example contents description or production information can be entere
43. h others snap distance The two points will be joined if within each others snap distance If not you can click the points with the Glue tool Al This will result in a line between the two clicked points e Select and drag a point to another point The two points will be joined if within each others snap distance ProofMaster Editor User Guide Knife PERFECT PROOF Knife You can use the Knife tool to cut paths in two Cut path in half 1 Select a path Select the Knife tool from the Tools palette Drag a line over a path and release the mouse button A point will appear on the place where the cut has been made Create masks An extra function of the Knife tool is to create masks Using the Control key Windows or Command key MacOS you can cut out a part of an object This single click action is roughly the same as making a compound of two paths and exclude the shape of the top object from the bottom object The objects have got to be paths Cut shape from object 1 Select two objects that are placed on top of each other 2 Ifthe selected objects are no paths choose Xtra gt Convert to path 3 Select the Knife tool from the Tools palette 4 With all objects selected control click the top path you can click a point or the path 5 Move the top object using the selection tool PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Round Round You can use the Round tool Fal to make round
44. h the given paths and its subfolders in the given sequence Default search paths are the fonts folder the extensions folder and the disk on which the ProofMaster Editor is installed To add locations 1 Do one of the following e In Microsoft Windows choose Edit gt Preferences e In Mac OS X choose ProofMaster Editor gt Preferences Click the Fonts tab Click Add and select the folder which contains fonts To remove locations 1 Do one of the following e In Microsoft Windows choose Edit gt Preferences e In Mac OS X choose ProofMaster Editor gt Preferences Click the Fonts tab Select the fonts folder to be removed Click Remove ProofMaster Editor User Guide Setup and preferences PERFECT PROOF These settings are not applied in the Text tool T The Text tool is using TrueType and PostScript fonts See also Creating objects gt Text Tool on page 47 Key binding You can assign key combinations to frequently used menu commands or change existing keyboard shortcuts PS Method Mac OS only You can select the method to convert your PostScript files to PDF e Using Ghostscript e Using the Adobe Normalizer Text Mac OS only You can specify the default font for new text which you type in ProofMaster Editor PERFECT PROOF UEA e OLATA C Document Document Create a new document When the application is started a new document will be created automatically It is also possible to create a n
45. he Calligraphic pen a mode in the Control palette Enter the desired minimum and maximum pen width in the Control palette Enter the desired angle in the Angle box of the Control palette U A W N Draw the calligraphic path a moley dV E Ki K e ice Ory mClUi e PERFECT Path Tool PROOF Path Tool You can create lines and beziers by using the Path tool The Path tool has extra functionality when you use the Shift Control and ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS Using the Path tool you can e Create any form or shape e Create lines from and to existing points e Add curves to existing lines e Replace curves Create a path manually To create a path by clicking points 1 Select the Path tool from the Tools palette 2 Clicka starting point and an end point to draw a line between these two points 3 You can do the following e Double click the last point drawn to make it the endpoint e Place multiple points and double click to stop creating more points for this particular path To create a path by dragging 1 Select the Path tool from the Tools palette 2 Clicka starting point and drag to an end point 3 You can do the following e If necessary you can drag multiple points and double click to stop creating more points for this particular path e You can combine the drag and place options to create a path By choosing another tool you ll define the last point placed as the end point If a
46. he annotation icon you want to remove 2 Click Remove in the Control palette ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Dimension Tool nd 040 ake Dimension Tool Function You can use the Dimension tool measure the distance between two points and include these dimensions in your drawing To add dimensions to your drawing 1 Do one of the following e Click the Dimension tool on the toolbar e Click the Measure tool 3 the Color Info tool Ke3 or the Annotation tool on the toolbar and hold down the mouse button until the Dimension tool appears 2 If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette ProofMaster Editor User Guide Dimension Tool PERFECT PROOF 3 You can now do one of the following e To measure the distance between two points drag a line from one point to another e To measure the vertical or horizontal distance between two points which are not aligned hold down the Shift key and drag a line from one point to another e Select the Round option in the Control palette to round off the measured distance to the nearest whole number 4 You can set the following in the Control palette A Select whether the figures should be rounded off or not 51 33 mm B Specify the size of the text in the dimensions 52 96 mm box C Specify the size of the arrow D Use text in combination with or instead of the dimensions if you select the
47. he inside to the outside ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Gradient tool nd 040 ake ProofMaster Editor User Guide Object extra options PERFECT PROOF Chapter 8 Object extra options Topics In this chapter e Mask 106 e Convert to path 107 e Make pattern 108 Expand strokes 109 Outline 110 Object arithmetic 111 e Group and ungroup objects 112 e Compound 113 Layers 114 e Rings 116 a moLey dV ERIK e i ce Ory mClUi e PERFECT Mask PROOF Mask You can create a mask to display only a part of an object A mask is an object containing vector information A masked object is an object of which only the inter section with the mask is displayed Mask objects Open or import the objects that have to be masked Create a vector object that you will use as a mask Place the mask on top of the objects that have to be masked Select the mask and choose Arrange gt Bring to Front Select the mask object and the objects that have to be masked QU A WUN Choose Arrange gt Mask A Original B Mask Masked object Result Remove masks 1 Select a masked object 2 Choose Arrange gt Unmask The removed mask will be put on top of the unmasked object as a hairline path ProofMaster Editor User Guide Convert to path Convert to path About converting objects to paths You can use the function Convert to path to change vector objects or text into paths Thus you can alt
48. inserting the values a three dimensional object is created A red line with handles lets you define in what way the effect will take place It gives a preview of how it will convert the objects you selected ProofMaster Editor User Guide Distort Distort PERFECT PROOF The Distort tool r lets you alter the dimensions of an object or a group of objects You can give the object s a 3D look or create the illusion of perspective 1 Select the object s you want to alter 2 Select the Distort tool iy from the Tools palette 3 Select the type of distortion from the Control palette that you want to apply A red line with handles lets you define in what way the distortion will take place It gives a preview of how it will distort the objects you selected 4 Click Apply PERFECT PROOF Fisheye e LUE e OLARTE Fisheye Using the Fisheye tool you can create the illusion of objects being round or hollow This visual effect can make objects come out from the paper or sunk into it 1 2 3 4 Select the object s you want to alter Select the Fisheye tool from the Tools palette Enter the values for the effect in the Control palette Click Apply A red line with handles lets you define in what way the effect will take place It gives a preview of how it will convert the objects you selected ProofMaster Editor User Guide Perspective PERFECT PROOF Perspective The Perspective
49. int to an end point The Control palette shows the measures of the dragged line ProofMaster Editor User Guide Object edit options PERFECT PROOF Chapter 2 Object edit options Topics In this chapter e Selection tools 26 e Finding objects 29 e Moving objects 30 e Copying and replacing objects 32 Pasting copied objects between two endpoints of an object 34 Aligning objects 35 PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Selection tools Selection tools About the selection tools To edit an object it has to be distinguished from other objects You can do this by using the black and white selection tools e The black selection tool selects entire objects only e The white selection tool can select certain parts of paths If you are using another tool you can still quickly select or deselect objects by pressing the Control key Windows or Command key MacOS The Control key Windows or Command key MacOS lets you temporary use the black selection tool while another tool is selected from the toolbar Select by dragging or clicking 1 Select one of the selection tools from the Tools palette 2 You can select in two ways e Clicking Click the object or on the part of the object you wish to select e Dragging Drag a dotted rectangle also called a marquee or bounding outline around the object s or parts of the object s you want to select The selected objects are indicated by means of a cya
50. irty 30 days after the date a of shipment to you of the repaired or replaced Software or b PerfectProof advised you how to operate the Software so as to achieve the functionality described in the Documentation Only if you inform PerfectProof of your problem with the Software during the applicable warranty period and provide evidence of the date you purchased a license to the Software will PerfectProof be obligated to honor this warranty PerfectProof will use reasonable commercial efforts to repair replace advise or for individual consumers refund pursuant to the foregoing warranty within 30 days of being so notified This is a limited warranty and it is the only warranty made by PerfectProof Perfect Proof makes no other express warranty and no warranty of noninfringement of third parties rights The duration of implied warranties including without limitation warranties of merchantability and of fitness for a particular purpose is limited to the above limited warranty period some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts so limitations may not apply to you No PerfectProof dealer agent or employee is authorized to make any modifications extensions or additions to this warranty If any modifications are made to the Software by you during the warranty period if the media is subjected to accident abuse or improper use or if you violate the terms of this Agreement then this warranty shall immedia
51. ithout having to change the printer profile of that queue a amp Queue type Workflow Input Proofing Output Printer Profile E 8kPP_MattePaper_MK_N Creator PerfectProof Creation date 21 05 2007 16 55 18 Description E78kPP_MattePaper_MK_N Inks Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Driver Settings DPI 720 720 Dot size Mliddle Ink set Matte black Light Bi Directional False Cutter mode Cutter Off Spot color library ial x C Convert all spotcolors to process C Convert CMYK spotcolors to process Use OnSpot tables Color edits More info Point to elements to get more information if present A Color edits used in a ProofMaster queue ProofMaster Editor User Guide Export RIP Script saving color edits To save your color edits Proceed as follows 1 Open an image and adjust its colors using one or more commands in the Image menu 2 Choose Image gt Export RIP Script 3 Save your color edits in the ProofMaster ImageEdits folder Color edit files can only be used in ProofMaster queues if e They are saved in the ProofMaster ImageEdits folder e They have the imgedit extension Do not rename or move a color edit file once you have used it in a Proof Master queue 4 In ProofMaster RIP select the queue in which you wish to use the color edits and do one of the following e Double click the ProofMaster queue e Choose File gt Queue gt Setup e Click the Que
52. itor gt Preferences Click the Workdisk tab Select one of the available work disks Click OK Document The default size of anew document is defined by the Document size preference The default document size can be copied from the default paper size of the default desktop printer or can be any custom size To change the default document size 1 Do one of the following e In Microsoft Windows choose Edit gt Preferences e In Mac OS X choose ProofMaster Editor gt Preferences Click the Document size tab Do one of the following e Select Desktop printer page size e Select Custom size and fill in the desired values 4 Click OK PERFECT PROOF UA e LAAT Setup and preferences Grid Tiles Fonts You can use a grid and specify the distance between the horizontal and vertical lines of the grid You can make your objects snap to this grid for example to align them more easily See also o Getting started gt Views gt Rulers grid and guides on page 22 The Tiles preference defines what the default tile measurements are You can set the tile size and overlap to be used as a default This preference will not overrule the manual set tiles with the tiles tool See also Creating objects gt Tile Tool gt Rotating the crop wireframe on page 55 Production gt Printing tiles on page 135 The font locations are used by the PostScript interpreter Whenever the PostScript interpreter needs a font it will searc
53. l be selected too e In combination with the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS select one path from a compound e In combination with the Shift key and the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS Include all points of an object by just selecting one point By selecting a point that defines a bezier you can adjust the bezier handle with the use of the white selection tool See also o Creating objects on page 37 Select all Choose Edit gt Select all The selected objects are indicated by means of a colored selection line Invert selection Choose Edit gt Invert Selection to select all objects that are currently not selected ProofMaster Editor User Guide Finding objects Finding objects You can select every object or item by using the Find function This function lets you specify which objects or items need to be selected The Find function roughly works identical to the MacOS Find function 1 Choose Edit gt Find A dialog box appears in which you can set the search criteria for the items you want to select Select where to search for items by clicking Document or Selection Select the type of object which you want to find PERFECT PROOF Type items not equal to certain types of objects or items Color color that does not meet the criteria Short lines lines of a certain length 4 Select a comparison operator from the middle list for example less than or equal to 5 _ Fillin a value
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55. le 4 Click the Apply style button amp Square forced and arbitrary Forces selected angles to square angles with horizontal and vertical paths moving the points describing the angle regardless of their coordinates B l Forces angles to square angles while trying to keep the points as close to the original coordinates as possible C DER A Original Bezier bulge and smooth Straightens the beziers of a selected point to beziers with the same bulge B fe Smoothens a selected angle by averaging the handles of the beziers C JOU A Original PERFECT PROOF Bezier to line Align points ProofMaster Editor User Guide About the Actions palette Transforms a bezier to a line 1 displays the selected bezier clicking the convert to line action tool results in a flattened line Aligns selected points on a horizontal axis Aligns selected points on a vertical axis Aligns selected points on an axis formed by the selected start and end point Angle and Distance measure and apply ia A Measure the angle between two points 1 Select two points 2 Click measure angle The angle of the line in relation to the X axis will be measured and stored in the memory Apply the measured angle to the path between two clicked points 1 Click apply angle to activate the measured angle in memory 2 Select a point to define it as the starting point A circle shows that the selected point is the s
56. n colored outline while the points of that object are indicated by means of filled squares If only a part of an object is selected the object is indicated by means of a cyan outline while the points that are not selected are indicated by an empty square If only one point is selected which defines a bezier the handles are shown also If multiple consecutive points with bezier handles are selected only the outer ones show the handles Holding down the Shift key you can add objects to or remove objects from the selection The selection arrow shows a sign Holding down the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS you select only those objects that are entirely within the selection frame ProofMaster Editor User Guide Selection tools PERFECT PROOF Appearance Appearance Meaning 9 ce Filled square Selected point Empty square Not selected but part of an object from which other point s are selected Square with handles defining a bezier eo Path from which one point filled is selected ee Path from which all points are selected Black selection tool The black selection tool always selects an entire object e Selects all objects that are within the selection frame or are clicked If an object is partly within the selection frame or just one point is clicked still all points will be selected e In combination with the Shift key select multiple objects e In combination with the ALT key Windows or Opti
57. nce field with the source object remaining on its place See also o Printing and contour cutting on page 137 ProofMaster Editor User Guide Object arithmetic PERFECT PROOF Object arithmetic Arithmetic operations The following arithmetic operations are available e Union e Intersect e Exclude e Subtract You can apply these operations on a selection of vector objects by choosing Xtra gt Object arithmetic Union Unites the objects Intersect Results in an object which is the overlap of the original objects Exclude Results in an object which is the union of the original objects minus their overlaps Difference Results in an object which is the bottom object minus the other objects Simplify Removes all overlaps and self intersections Add intersection Points are added to the objects where they intersect the other objects ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Group and ungroup objects PROOF Group and ungroup objects About grouping and ungrouping objects Use the function Group to group two or more objects together This group will be treated as one object If you want to edit every object from a group separately you need to ungroup the group To group or ungroup objects 1 Selecta number of objects or a group of objects 2 Doone of the following e Choose Arrange gt Group e Choose Arrange gt Ungroup ProofMaster Editor User Guide Compound Compound About compounds A c
58. nd of paths The cursor change from the regular text symbol to a text symbol with a waved line 3 Click the path of your choice to type text on a path Text is placed upon the path and will follow the shape of the path oat gi Voy Place text upright 1 Place text on path 2 Choose Type gt Upright characters T Meo Place text can under a path 1 Place text on path 2 Choose Type gt Align bottom oe Cm A combination is also possible upright text aligned at the bottom of the path ef onl ond no spaci E PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Putting text on a path PROOF Convert text to paths outlines You can convert text to paths so that text becomes objects also called outlines You can apply more options to objects than to text Once a text is converted into paths you can edit the shape The text will obviously lose its text properties you will no longer be able to edit the text using the Text tool 1 Using the black selection tool click a text box 2 Choose Xtra gt Convert to path The text is now converted to paths See also o Object extra options on page 105 ProofMaster Editor User Guide Using tabs PERFECT PROOF Using tabs Align text In the text Control palette select the alignment for your text and click Apply Align tabs Tabs are used for text in columns Every time a tab is inserted in the text a default tab distance is used After typing you
59. o the original but will be formed by a lot of points ProofMaster Editor User Guide Vectorize PERFECT PROOF The values set are the same except for the bezier tolerance A moderate value will give a reasonable comparison to the original without forming too many points The little closed points reflect the fluent angles whereas the bigger open points stand for non fluent corners The example is a rather simple image but when you are vectorizing a complex design it may be better to choose for moderate values you can always change points add or remove them Higher values will create a more or less round result and will deviate from the original PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Export RIP Script saving color edits Export RIP Script saving color edits About RIP scripts and color edits If you have licensed the Advanced Editor option you can adjust the colors of images by using the commands in the Image menu e Levels e Hue Saturation e Brightness Contrast e Color balance If you do so you permanently alter the colors of the image However you may also wish to keep the original image but only apply the color edits when you print the image on a specific ProofMaster queue Or you may wish to apply the same color edits to multiple images You can do so by using the Export RIP Script command you then save your color edits and use these color edits in your ProofMaster queue w
60. ode lets you view your work as line art Thus you can easily see the paths and points without having to see all details such as fills gradients and bitmap images It means that you can work faster and easier and that you can see the outlines shapes of all objects If you choose to view in preview mode you will see how your artwork is going to be printed It means that you can see your artwork in all detail all fills gradients and bitmap images will be shown Rulers grid and guides Rulers grid and guides are available for working more precise With these options you can easily do your work and at the same time be sure you work precisely If you set a Snap distance as described in the chapter Setup and preferences you can first choose to precisely place guidelines or to use a grid in order to place points objects or images on predefined coordinates The rulers easily show you where you are in the document Grid You can use a grid to work more precisely You can also make it a magnetic grid with a snap distance set in the Preferences 1 Choose View gt Grid 2 Ifyou want to use the grid with magnetic coordinates set with a snap distance choose View gt Snap to grid ProofMaster Editor User Guide Views See also Getting started gt Setup and preferences gt Grid on page 14 Rulers and guides After you have enabled the rulers you can drag guidelines from the ruler 1 Choose View gt Rulers to display the ruler
61. ol 3 If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette 4 Drag the multigon or star Create a multigon or star numerically 1 Click the Circle tool on the Tools palette and hold down the mouse button Select the Multigon Star tool lt 1 If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette Fill in the desired radius angle and number of corners U BF W N If necessary fill in the desired centre in the Anchor boxes By default 0 0 is used as centre Click the Multigon or Star i button and specify the size 7 Click Apply OV Edit multigons or stars numerically 1 Using the black selection tool select the multigon or star which you want to change Click the Circle tool on the Tools palette and hold down the mouse button Select the Multigon Star tool lt 1 If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette Change the desired values in the Control palette Click Change a uu AWN WA Ifyou have changed the number of corners in the Control palette this RS number will become the default value ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Rectangle PROOF Rectangle Create a rectangle manually 1 Select the Rectangle tool from the Tools palette 2 You can do the following e Draw the rectangle e To create a square hold down the Shift key while dragging The width and height of the rectangle will be the same e Tostart from the centr
62. ol to display the Control palette 4 Doone of the following e Click the anchor point around which the object must be rotated e Fillin the coordinates of the anchor numerically in the Control palette An anchor point will be shown on that position ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Rotate objects PROOF 5 Specify the rotation angle e A positive angle means that the rotation is counterclockwise e A negative angle means that the rotation is clockwise 6 Ifyou wish to copy the object while rotating it specify the number of copies 7 Click Apply or Copy ProofMaster Editor User Guide Mirror objects PERFECT PROOF Mirror objects You can mirror an object through an imaginary axis This axis can be horizontal vertical or have any angle Mirror by dragging manually Select the objects which you want to mirror 2 Select the Mirror tool from the Tools palette Click the first point of the imaginary axis through which the object must be mirrored An anchor will be shown on that position 4 Place the cursor on the second point of the imaginary axis and drag the axis until you reached the desired angle 5 To usea constrain angle hold down the SHIFT key while dragging The angle will be constrained to 15 or the value you set in the Preferences 6 To copy the object while rotating it hold down the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS while dragging The cursor changes into a double c
63. ompound is an object which consists of multiple paths and is handled like an ordinary path To create a compound 1 Select the objects of which you wish to make a compound 2 Choose Arrange gt Make compound If you want to edit every object of a compound separately you need to release the compound 1 Select the compound which you want to release 2 Choose Arrange gt Release compound PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Layers PROOF Layers About layers You can work with layers in which you can place objects compounds and groups Thus you can make modifications to objects in a certain layer without having the problem of changing other objects by mistake You can also define whether a layer should be printed cut locked and be visible or hidden To work with layers you use the Layers palette Choose Window gt Layers Create new layer ot Open the Layers palette if not already open N Choose New from the Layers palette menu 3 If necessary double click the layer name and rename the layer Duplicate layer You can duplicate a layer with all elements into another one 1 Open the Layers palette if not already open 2 Click the layer you want to duplicate 3 Choose Duplicate from the Layers palette menu 4 If necessary double click the duplicated layer name and rename the layer Remove layer Open the Layers palette if not already open 2 Click the layer you want to remove
64. on key MacOS Select an object only when it is entirely within the selection frame e In combination with the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS and Shift key Include whole object when entirely within frame You can activate the black selection tool from every tool by pressing the Control key Windows or Command key MacOS on your keyboard This means quicker access without having to select the selection tool When you double click an object using the black selection tool the tool automati cally switches to a tool that displays the measures in the Control palette Usually this is the tool that has created the object for example rectangle multigon etc If it concerns a path the tool will switch to the Size tool White selection tool The white selection tool selects parts of a path e Selects all points that are within the selection frame or are clicked If an object is partially within the selection frame only those points that are within the selection frame will be selected e Select a whole object by dragging it within the selection frame this is the same as the black selection tool or click the fill of the object e In combination with Shift key select multiple points ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Selection tools PROOF e In combination with the Control key Windows or Command key MacOS selecting the entire object If just one point is dragged within the selection frame all other points wil
65. onn ene 91 OB ect oy e ne ee ee ee eee ee 92 Paea 0 9 eee ener eee meee enero errr ae eee eee een eee ere eae ere weer 93 E E gape ere ee ear Te ee N E ee ee EE eee 95 ProofMaster Editor User Guide Contents Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Esa NS csc chs A A EN E ETT E E N OE A E 98 PAANO COOS aaan E E A eeaen ts 100 Ea E a AEE A E E T E E 101 Oraa E OON aa emnrrrrimer a tntn rer mar enn een er ere a eee ert omer re tor rere 103 DCE ONIlA ODTIONS nnna 10S MOSK ye ceva teen cece acoso ee E E A E E ee sere tees 106 OT SEO POUL aeesseasasrasicctsican tection tessisticoenrssierini E E annie 107 Make patter i eiramise iera iiai NEEE a NT ieatocst ants ate ra sanseoanseenseanee 108 Expand S TOKES pnn A E E A O 109 10 g AE AE I OT A EEEE E A OA O S 110 ODE EOE A E T E T 111 Group and ungroup objects s esssseesssseesssseessseeesseesosseesssseesssseessseeesseeesseerosseeosssersssseronersssseess 112 CONT OUI loses e E A E E acess 113 EY T ae E E E A aa ecnetits 114 PAG S a a E R E E Enea 116 Objects Images sssscssssssssssse Minne distant 119 Tg ges ats oaa reer rte were mere Onna rrr Tee ee trP meee arr ret etre ee erent eee 120 importan a 1s E smon E meet trees 121 SAIN ene nee nv nr NENET E enn ne ee 122 image TOT VAT O15 sscscessasietusestessycodcesonscsendes cupncokssustacuien east vacufeneneesasssaachoa essdasawonnsaieussteanseteatases 123 CHOOSE IMAGE Prole ereire onesie noira nEn E ASAE NEEE Ri 124
66. or desig nated points if the cursor is within the snap distance as set in the preferences By setting the snap distance you can work more accurate Undo levels The undo level is the maximum number of actions which are remembered No more than this number of undos are possible Display When more than the given number of objects are selected the bounding box of these objects frame will be dragged instead of the outlines of the objects Save thumbnail A preview will be saved Automatic switch to soft You will see a more accurate but slower on screen proofing preview of how your colors will be reproduced on an output device See also Object edit options gt Moving objects gt Move objects by dragging manually on page 30 ProofMaster Editor User Guide Setup and preferences PERFECT PROOF Units To change the units 1 Do one of the following e In Microsoft Windows choose Edit gt Preferences e In Mac OS X choose ProofMaster Editor gt Preferences 2 Click the Units tab Select one of the available unit systems Click OK Work disk ProofMaster Editor can temporarily need disk space if not enough free memory is available virtual memory This disk space will be taken from the disk which is indi cated by the work disk preference The startup disk will be used by default To change the work disk 1 Do one of the following e In Microsoft Windows choose Edit gt Preferences e In Mac OS X choose ProofMaster Ed
67. or select an item if needed for a specific criterion If necessary click More choices to combine search criteria ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Moving objects PROOF Moving objects Move objects by dragging manually Using the selection tool click an object and drag it to its new position Be sure to start dragging on an already selected object Otherwise if you start on an object that isn t selected this object will be selected and al other objects will be dese lected Constrain movement Hold down the Shift key while dragging The movement will only be along an axis which has an angle which is a multiple of 15 or the value you set in the Prefer ences See also o Getting started gt Setup and preferences gt General on page 12 Copy Hold down the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS while dragging The cursor changes into a double cursor indicating that a copy will be made when you release the button Move objects numerically 1 Select the objects which you want to move 2 Select the selection tool from the Tools palette 3 If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette 4 Move the objects using the Control palette e Position enter the new position of the left top position of the selection e Displacement enter the horizontal and or vertical displacement ProofMaster Editor User Guide Moving objects e Offset enter a distance and an angle under
68. ore starting to create and edit objects you should know where to find the basic elements in the structure of ProofMaster Editor All elements are described at the same time as the actions are described in each chapter below are some elements which are not described or need emphasis The interface The menu bar Menu Descipion S Fle Program and document related options ike open saveand prit Edit Basic edit options Ike preferences cut copy and select Arrange Arrangement of object options like group compound mask lock and object sequence Image _ Commands to make overall adjustments to an image Font type options such as align and font size Options that give the program extra functionality Twain profiles peel lines and all other extra options Most of these functions are only avail able in the Advanced Editor Select the active window and define window sequence From this menu you can also select the palettes The Tools palette The Tools palette is the only palette that is always visible All tools are found in the Tools palette PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Views Hand Tool Zoom Tool The Tools palette is divided into certain groups Each group contains similar tools Selection tools e The black and white selection tools See Selection tools on page 26 Creating tools e Path and Text tool e Sketch and Knife tool e Circle Multigon or Star and Rectangle tool E
69. ou can control which page you are going to use edit and print Scroll through layers You can scroll through layers by using the Page Up and Page Down keys on your keyboard ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Rings PROOF Rings About rings You can add indicator rings to define where the rings or grommets will be placed on your large format designs If you do so the rings will be put on a separate layer To add rings to your document Proceed as follows 1 With your document open choose Xtra gt Rings 2 You can see and specify the following in the Ring Option window A Document width and height F Number of rings horizontally and vertically B Document size minus the offset from G Diameter of the rings the left right bottom and top edge of your document C Offset from the left right bottom H Select whether you wish to have and top edge of your document rings at the top T left L right R or bottom B D Minimum distance between the I Specify the width of the fold if any center of the rings E Maximum distance between the center of the rings W Ifyou specify an invalid number of rings with respect to their size and posi E tion the OK button will be dimmed If so change the size position or number of rings ProofMaster Editor User Guide Rings PERFECT PROOF 3 Click OK The rings will be placed on a separate layer on your document Layer e i
70. out a key pressed results in a cubic bezier going through the cursor position e If you hold down the Shift key while dragging you create a similar bezier as would be if no keys were pressed The difference is that in combination with the Shift key the bezier will be drawn smoothly in regard to the previous and next path e If you hold down the Control key Windows or Command key MacOS while dragging you create a circular path which consists of multiple points with handles PERFECT PROOF a moley dV E Ki K e ice Ory mClUi e PERFECT Path Tool PROOF Adjusting bezier handles Using the white selection tool you can adjust bezier handles You can set both bezier handles separately by using the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS To adjust two handles at once 1 Select the point from which you want a bezier handle adjusted If a point is the start or the end of a bezier then the handles will appear 2 Drag one handle so that the bezier will get the correct shape If one handle is adjusted the other will automatically change along If you release the mouse button the bezier is adjusted To adjust only one handle 1 Select the point from which you want a bezier handle adjusted If a point is the start or the end of a bezier then the handles will appear Click the handle and hold down the mouse button While holding the mouse button press the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS 4 You can now dr
71. r text with tabs you can set the tab stop positions with the help of the tabulator palette 1 Choose Type gt Tabulator The Tabulator palette appears Select the text in which you want to align the tabs by using the Text tool FA After opening the Tabulator palette if not already open click Snap The Tabulator palette snaps to the text box so that it creates a temporary ruler in which you can define the tab stop positions 4 Select one of the tabulator styles by clicking one of the buttons in the upper left corner of the palette 5 Place a tab position by clicking in the part just above the ruler 6 Drag the tab to the wanted position After a tab is placed you can still change its specifications by clicking the tab and clicking of the buttons in the upper left corner By double clicking on a tab you can set additional specifications numerically The next window will appear after you double click a tab Tabulator setting Align Haje Position 6847 mm Align char Co ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Using peellines PROOF Using peellines About peellines If text is used to create output for a cutting plotter that cuts out the text contours you can use the option Peellines If you have used peellines you can easily peel off the media around the text without tearing up the text Proceed as follows 1 Select a text box 2 Choose Xtra gt Peellines The Peelline option dialog box
72. rprint for a particular object by checking the Overprint box PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Color list nd 040 aoe Color list You can use the Color list palette for the following purposes e To store frequently used colors or colors which are specially mixed e To finda color in one of the color libraries Add color 1 Drag a patch from the Style palette or the Color mixer palette 2 Drag over the Color list palette A marker indicates the position at which the color will be inserted into the list 3 Drop the patch The color is added to the list Remove color 1 Drag the color from the list 2 Drop the color on the Trash button located in the top right corner of the pal ette Find color There are two ways to look up a color e You can browse through the color libraries e You can mix a color and add it to the color list or use another existing color and find a color which is near to that color in the color library See also Finding colors on page 100 Browse 1 Click the book icon which is the second icon from the left A dialog box appears displaying the colors of the first library 2 Select the desired library from the menu Select the color from the library Click OK to add the color to the list ProofMaster Editor User Guide Color list PERFECT PROOF Custom library Default library The selection of colors in your color list can be saved as a custom color
73. s The rulers appear with measures in the unit you have defined in the prefer ences Place your cursor on a ruler Drag a guideline from the ruler and release your mouse button if the guideline is in its place If you want to use the guides as magnetic lines with a snap distance choose View gt Snap to guides You can precisely set the guides by means of a window in which you can define the exact coordinates You can also make copies of existing guidelines 1 2 6 Place your cursor on a ruler Drag a guideline from the ruler and release your mouse button if the guideline is in its place Double click the guideline Set the precise coordinates for the guideline and set the angle for the guide If necessary you can set a number of copies the angle and the space between the copies of the guide Click OK Remove guides 1 2 3 Choose View gt Remove Guides Select the type s of guides which you want to remove Click OK PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Views PROOF Measure Tool You use the Measure tool in combination with the Control palette It helps you to view information about the distance between two points 1 If the Control palette isn t visible choose Window gt Control QO Control 4 263 cm borer o cm mH 12 646 om 2 12 646 om Control palette Select the Measure tool from the Tools palette Drag a measure line from a start po
74. seisseen bassru eiiean eiria ania E a ni iaae aieiaa EEV ieran 49 Una O e E T T ener error ate 51 Using peellinEs ou esesessessssecsssessessssessecsssecsesssscsssscsesscsecsssncsessssucsesscsucsssenssucassecsessssucaesscseeseescasees 52 OTOOTO E 53 T e E E E E E A E N 55 COOMO WO sair A O T TO 56 PERFECT PROOF PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Contents Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 PRIMI CATON TOON peate ea a tee anrtan eathace loveseat nice eaia tian ecaunt cet emetic alot 57 PO TOOL Memeeeroer ere nmernr ecient or errr oe seiar E een ee 58 Creating templates sesisih niren nan eo EESE TASER AEA aE OEE 60 Editing objects PEE E PA PAE EPA EES EA ET piaia ws O7 POUONO I a E E ome en nnn ene reerer 68 Rotate ODjeCiS seieeenisctitieicrceeains neers E 69 MITO ODI SES gna E E EEEO EE O T 71 ae NEV OD E n E E E E E E E EE 73 KEW OD GES O E O E OTR 75 E U A E E E E IAA AAEN EE E ce erences 76 P e E A EE E T E E EAE 77 ROUNO saison a eet 78 SA S a INE A EE A O PE T AA E A A E A E A A E TT 79 Renace paih Dar aa E OA A ATA 80 Object special F X cccs00 HOt E EUOG s E E E E AOE E OE 82 BE i NEA EE E ET ES N I ETA T I ae ee E 83 ESEVE E E A T ee ner eee rye ere tee 84 PPMP A AE A EAIA A E N N S 85 UODIGCE ACIONS anaa About the Actions palette 0 sssesscssssssssecsssssssscsecsesessesessesesssseseesesesecseseescseseeseseescseseeseseesesees 88 DRIER edit Ste nnicnninin
75. strokes into an object in the same way as you convert text to outlines If a stroke has a pen width set it can be transformed to a path covering the outlines of that stroke To expand strokes 1 Select the stroke s which you want to expand 2 Choose Xtra gt Expand stroke The selected strokes are converted into an object ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Outline PROOF Outline About outlines You can convert objects to outlines using the outline definition of that object To convert objects to outlines 1 Select the object s which you want to convert 2 Choose Xtra gt Outline The Outline dialog box appears A C Automatic Copies i _______ D A Join styles B Result of the conversion C Distance from originalD Number of outlines to be created Places the resulting item outside the original path by the value set in the distance field without the source object remaining on its place Places the resulting item inside the original path by the value set in the distance field without the source object remaining on its place Places the resulting item outside the original path by the value set in the distance field with the source object remaining on its place Places the resulting item inside the original path by the value set in the distance field with the source object remaining on its place Places the resulting item outside as well as inside the original path by the value set in the dista
76. tarting point for this action 3 Select another point to define it as the end point The measured angle stored in memory will be applied to the path between the two selected points Measure the distance between two points 1 Select two points 2 Click measure distance The distance between two points will be mea sured and stored in the memory Apply the measured distance to the path between two clicked points Click apply distance to activate the measured distance in memory Select a point to define it as the starting point A circle shows that the selected point is the starting point for this action Select another point to define it as the end point The measured distance stored in memory will be applied to the path between the two selected points The measure and apply actions can be combined you can measure both the angle and distance and apply them to selected points ProofMaster Editor User Guide Object edit style PERFECT PROOF Chapter 7 Object edit style Topics In this chapter e Object style 92 e Patch actions 93 e Color 95 e Color mixer 96 Color list 98 Finding colors 100 Gradient 101 e Gradient tool 103 PERFECT PROOF Object style ProofMaster Editor User Guide Object style Style of vector based objects Every vector based object for example paths rectangles ellipses and text has its own style The style describes if the object is filled and with what color gradient or pa
77. tations discussions undertakings end user agreements communications or advertising relating to the Software 2007 PerfectProof Europe NV All rights reserved PERFECT ProofMaster Editor User Guide nd 00 3 ProofMaster Editor User Guide Contents Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Getting started intents iinet Mitt mari A Setup and Pl CTT SINC SS as esesceesstcetrecevenevansicasseeteeeneaetereean serrations seem aera 12 BAG UMN aa E E esis 16 MS aa O E A ie eens aout cary torts 19 Object edit OPtiONS 00000 NOE AAAA EEE E AE 1 Selection TOONS ruporu T E E teens 26 FNNO OD SCL en E E a a 29 MOVIDO ODJET esra o Na E N N 30 COPYING and replacing ODjJECtS seseris enan enee a ae aia i 32 Pasting copied objects between two endpoints of an object ssssessssseessseersssseesssseesss 34 PAT UMN OD CC esn R toneslceniicaecsnnnnsutd qn scassanesteeansbiaveorsontatsixcetaneapnanesicaninceeanies 35 Creating GRIECLS since OT Overview of opject types at czccsee cc cees custtetcetcssee cect etacsotsecetea tenes featct eai iaoiai 38 Graal aie 1 i aereneenerste tere tenenamnereh E ener T NE Te ent t nee 39 Creating a three point circle ou essessesecsssscsecssscsesscsecsssscsssscsecsssecsesscsessssecssscsssasseeassessecassesees 40 MAJON SUA n a E i anes soe ete acest eceeeit 41 PECTOS 42 OCR TO a A AA A A 43 UE OON a A O nes 44 TOC TOOL sirene E E ee 47 PUtTING TEXT ON A path
78. tely be terminated This warranty shall not apply if the Software is used on or in conjunction with hardware or software other than the unmodified version of hardware and software with which the software was designed to be used as described in the Documentation This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may have other legal rights that vary by jurisdiction PERFECT PROOF PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SCOPE OF GRANT TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW IN NO EVENT SHALL PerfectProof ITS EMPLOYEES OR LICENSORS OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOST PROFITS REVENUE SALES DATA OR COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTI TUTE GOODS OR SERVICES PROPERTY DAMAGE PERSONAL INJURY INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION OR FOR ANY SPECIAL DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL ECONOMIC COVER PUNITIVE SPECIAL OR CONSEQUEN TIAL DAMAGES HOWEVER CAUSED AND WHETHER ARISING UNDER CONTRACT TORT NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE AND OR THE DOCUMENTATION OR ARISING OUT OF MISINTERPRETATION OR LACK OF CLARITY OF THE DOCUMENTATION EVEN IF PerfectProof OR ITS LICENSORS OR AFFILIATES ARE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES BECAUSE SOME COUNTRIES STATES JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY BUT MAY ALLOW LIABILITY TO BE LIMITED IN SUCH CASES PerfectProof ITS EMPLOYEES OR LICENSORS OR A
79. ts where the path will be calculated through e Press the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS to add points where the path will be calculated fluently through In the palette you can choose to view the preview path as lines or as curves Below you see two examples of cyan previews The numbers define the values set in the Control palette for the following settings e Line or bezier e Line tolerance e Bezier tolerance e Create corner at Original PERFECT PROOF PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Vectorize Curve 2 8 2 60 z z n a ne N i J j h a A 4 Y Ye A 9 N ha Curve 2 8 1 60 This example shows the preview where the contour will be formed by lines The set line toler ance will have no effect because there will not be any curves The value set for the corner tolerance will define the amount of corners This example shows the preview where the contour will be formed by curves The values set in this example are the same as the example above The bezier tolerance that is set in the Control palette defines when a point is placed These points can be removed by using the Shift key You can also add a point by holding down the Shift key and clicking the original These are examples of a change in the value for the bezier tolerance By using a low value you can define a contour that may not differ from the original too much The result will be close t
80. ttern it is filled The style also describes if the objects outline has a color and what the stroke width is The style of the selected objects is shown in the Style palette Choose Window gt Style HEHEHE BERGENER The style palette Fill properties Stroke properties Overprint slider Percentage indicator L Overpr int aja Cap style eS Join style Dash Preview The Fill Stroke patches show what fill or stroke color gradient or pattern is applied to the selected objects If a patch is crossed then no fill or stroke is applied If a patch contains a question mark then the selection contains multiple fill and or stroke styles The section Fill of the Style palette shows the fill properties The patch displays the fill for the selected object s The section Stroke of the Style palette shows the stroke properties You can set the stroke width in the edit field When you set the stroke width make sure you press ENTER to apply it The patches can be changed by dragging a patch from the Color Mixer Color List Gradient Editor or Pattern Editor and drop it on the patch that has to be changed The fill patch will accept colors gradients and patterns The stroke patch only accepts colors The Dash Preview shows if there is a dashed line applied to a path The dash can be reset or adjusted by clicking the Dash Preview ProofMaster Editor User Guide Patch actions Patch actions Cap amp Join Dash Editor The
81. u enter a scaling percentage or use the Fit To Page button ProofMaster Editor User Guide Editor Basics Separations Tools Nesting If your document contains multiple pages you may want to click the Best Fit button and make sure that the Center option is not selected Thus you will nest the pages to make optimum use of the media Only the page which you are currently viewing in ProofMasterEditor will be displayed in the preview All other pages will be displayed with a wireframe crossmark and their page number You can print separations or composite proofs and select an output profile By clicking the printer icon amp you can select whether you want to print the respec tive channel or not You can select one of the following options for the tools of your proofer or plotter The way you want the plotter to act after a job Lets the plotter cut the fastest way Lets the plotter cut with minimal media transport lets the plotter define its own sorting PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Editor Basics nd 040 aoe ProofMaster Editor User Guide Index PERFECT PROOF Index ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Index PROOF
82. ue Options button and choose Setup Queue Click the Output tab Select your imgedit file from the Color edits list Color edits color edit imgedit 7 ClickOK See also o Creating and configuring ProofMaster queues gt Output in the ProofMaster RIP User Guide PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Export RIP Script saving color edits PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Production PERFECT PROOF Chapter 10 Production Topics In this chapter e Production basics 134 e Printing tiles 135 e Printing and contour cutting 137 e Editor Basics 140 PERFECT PROOF ProofMaster Editor User Guide Production basics Production basics Extended production features ProofMaster Editor has extended production features which enable you to completely control your output The pre production work that you have to do to create output the way you want it to be consists of e Making sure that your image fits the media or is placed on tiles e Assigning the proper profiles to the images e Gather all information needed to print Profiles are needed to use color management in your production process Before printing you have to assign profiles to your images and specify to which plotter or printer your data will be sent In short color management is based on controlling the translation between different devices and color spaces and its color information Profiles contain th
83. ursor indicating that a copy will be made when you release the button See also Getting started gt Setup and preferences gt General on page 12 Mirror numerically Select the objects which you want to mirror 2 Select the Mirror tool from the Tools palette If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Mirror objects PROOF 4 Doone ofthe following e Click the first point of the imaginary axis in which the object must be mirrored e Fill in the coordinates of the anchor in the Control palette An anchor will be shown on that position 5 Specify the mirroring angle e A positive angle means that the mirroring is counterclockwise e A negative angle means that the mirroring is clockwise 6 Click Apply or Copy ProofMaster Editor User Guide Scaling objects PERFECT PROOF Scaling objects You can change the dimensions of objects by scaling them By means of a scale adjustment you can enlarge or reduce the size of an image from the basis selected by yourself horizontally x axis as well as vertically y axis or from both axes Scale by dragging manually 1 Select the objects you wish to change 2 Select the Scale tool Eh from the Tools palette 3 Click the position from where you wish to scale An anchor appears on this position 4 Youcan do the following e Drag the cursor to scale the object E e To scale the object
84. values using RGB CMYK HSL Gray ClElab and screen color spaces To use the Color Info tool 1 Do one of the following e Click the Color Info tool on the toolbar e Click the Measure tool I the Dimension tool or the Annotate tool on the toolbar and hold down the mouse button until the Color Info tool appears 2 If necessary choose Window gt Control to display the Control palette Click the Eyedropper button in the Control palette and select the color space in which you want to see the color values 4 Move your mouse pointer which is now an eyedropper over your object to see the color values ProofMaster Editor User Guide Annotation tool PERFECT PROOF Annotation tool Function The Annotation tool allows you to place an annotation in the active window on a special layer Annotations will not be printed or visible in further processes and are for use in ProofMaster Editor only To insert annotations 1 Do one of the following e Click the Annotation tool on the toolbar e Click the Measure tool the Color Info tool or the Dimension tool Ay on the toolbar and hold down the mouse button until the Annotation tool appears 2 Click at the location where you want to place an annotation Type an annotation in the Control palette To view annotations Select the Annotation tool and click the annotation icon in your active window To remove annotations 1 Select the Annotation tool and click t
85. which the selection has to move the entered distance You can also make a copy of the selected item s by filling in the number of copies gi 5 Click Apply Move using the arrow keys nudging 1 Select the objects which you want to move 2 Press the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the selected objects step by step PERFECT PROOF a meLey dV E Ki K mm tel ice mUry mClUi e PERFECT Copying and replacing objects PROOF Copying and replacing objects Making copies There are several ways to make copies of the selected objects e Hold down the ALT key Windows or Option key MacOS while dragging the selected objects The cursor will change into a double cursor e Enter a value for the number of copies in the Control palette gi The current settings will be applied on the copy e Choose Edit gt Copy A copy of the selected objects will be stored on the clipboard This enables you to paste the objects in this or another Proof Master document see Paste Replace You can replace selected objects by the objects in your clipboard 1 Copy an object This object is now stored on your clipboard x Select the object you want to replace with the item on the clipboard Choose Edit gt Replace and then one of the following commands in the sub menu Original objects Objects replaced Command by the copied object Width and height of the original are maintained x Objects pasted adjusted Xo x to
86. y the size and position of the placeholders Click the Props tab in the Control palette Specify the identifier ID of the placeholder Placeholders with the same identifier ID will contain the same image so e If you are creating a template for a photo album sheet make sure that all your placeholders have the same ID e If you are creating a template for a photo contact sheet make sure that all your placeholders have a unique ID Specify the alignment of the image in the placeholder If necessary select crop to crop the image to the size of the placeholder ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Creating templates PROOF 9 Inthe Resize type list select the way in which the image will be resized to fit in the placeholder Resize type Meaning illustration Keep the original size of the image Resize the image proportionally to the smallest side of the placeholder ProofMaster Editor User Guide Creating templates PERFECT PROOF Meaning illustration Average Resize the image proportionally to the average of the smallest and biggest side of the placeholder M type me E Biggest Resize the image proportionally to the biggest side of the placeholder Resize the image to fit the width and height of the place holder we ProofMaster Editor User Guide PERFECT Creating templates PROOF 10 If necessary select the Marker type and size ProofMaster Editor User Guide

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