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Customizing color management settings


    Although the predefined settings should provide sufficient color management for most publishing workflows, you may sometimes want to customize individual options in a configuration. For example, you might want to change the CMYK working space to a profile that matches the proofing system used by your service bureau.

    Color management settings can be shared with other users and with other applications that use the Color Settings dialog box, such as Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and later. It's important to save your custom configurations if you want to reuse and share them with other users who use the same color management workflows; for more information, see Saving and loading custom color management settings. The color management settings that you customize in the Color Settings dialog box have an associated preferences file called AI Color Settings, located in the same location as Adobe Illustrator preference file. (See Setting preferences.)

To customize color management settings:

  1. Choose Edit > Color Settings.
  2. To use a preset color management configuration as the starting point for your customization, choose that configuration from the Settings menu.
  3. Specify the desired color settings. (As you make adjustments, the Settings menu option changes to Custom by default.) Refer to the following sections for detailed customization instructions.

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