Soft-proofing colors
In a traditional publishing workflow, you print a hard proof of your document to preview how its document's colors will look when reproduced on a specific output device. In a color-managed workflow, you can use the precision of color profiles to soft-proof your document directly on the monitor. You can display an onscreen preview of how your document's colors will look when reproduced on a particular output device. Keep in mind that the reliability of the soft proof is highly dependent upon the quality of your monitor, your monitor profile, and the ambient lighting conditions of your workstation. For information on creating a monitor profile, see Creating an ICC monitor profile. Note: The soft-proofing commands are not available when the Emulate Adobe Illustrator 6.0 setting is chosen in the Color Settings dialog box.
To display a soft proof: - Choose View > Proof Setup, and choose the output display that you want to simulate:
- Choose Custom to soft-proof colors as displayed on a specific output device. Then follow the instructions outlined in the next procedure to set up the custom proof.
- Choose Macintosh RGB or Windows RGB to soft-proof colors using either a standard Mac OS or Windows monitor as the proof profile space that you want to simulate.
- Choose Monitor RGB to soft-proof colors using your current monitor color space as the proof profile space.
- Choose View > Proof Colors to toggle the soft-proof display on and off. When soft proofing is on, a check mark appears next to the Proof Colors command.
To create a custom proof setup: - Choose View > Proof Setup > Custom.
- In the Proof Setup dialog box, for Profile, choose the color profile for the device for which you want to create the proof.
- If you choose a proof profile using the document's current color model, do one of the following:
- Select Preserve Color Numbers to simulate how the document will appear without converting colors to the proof profile space.
- Deselect Preserve Color Numbers to simulate how the document will appear if colors are converted to the proof profile space in an effort to preserve the colors' visual appearances. Then specify a rendering intent for the conversion. For more information, see Specifying a rendering intent.
- Click OK.
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