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l Profiles only apply to colors specified within PlanetPress Design such as font colors, backgrounds, shapes and lines. Pro-
files do not modify the display of images and other "external"resources.
Color Management in PlanetPress Design
Objectif Lune approached the issue of color management with an eye to making it as straightforward and convenient as pos-
sible for its customers. It designed the color management in PlanetPress Design to accurately display, in the Page area, the col-
ors that print when the document executes on a printer.
When you set up color management in PlanetPress Design, you are setting up a relationship between two color profiles: a mon-
itor profile and a printer profile. The color management workflow in PlanetPress Design consists of two basic steps:
1. Install the device color profiles.
You install a profile for each monitor you intend to use during document design with PlanetPress Design, and for each
printer on which you intend to execute your documents. PlanetPress Design uses version 2.0 of the Image Color Man-
agement (ICM) system. The ICM system supports device profiles that conform to the International Color Consortium
(ICC) color profile specification.
2. In PlanetPress Design, select the appropriate monitor profile for your monitor and the appropriate printer profile for the
printer on which you intend to print the document. If the printer and/or monitor you use is document-dependent, you
may need to adjust the profiles you use on a per document basis.
Once you set up color management, PlanetPress Design handles color in the document as follows:
Color
source:
PlanetPress Design color management:
Document
color
When you select colors using the Color Picker or define colors using numerical values, PlanetPress Design displays
the specified colors by first assuming they are in the color space of the selected printer profile and then translating
them into the color space of the selected monitor profile. This ensures the on-screen color represents, as closely as
possible, the one the printer prints.
Bitmapped
images
When you import static bitmapped images or reference dynamic bitmapped images, for performance reasons Plan-
etPress Design does not perform any color management on the images.
PDF and
EPS image
When you import a static PDF or EPS image resource or reference a dynamic PDF or EPS image, for performance
reasons PlanetPress Design displays the PDF or EPS as color or grayscale images. The images are displayed in
color only when you preview or execute the document.
PostScript Attachments
A PostScript attachment is a file that contains standard PostScript code, which is attached in your document and printed as-is.
PostScript attachments are not added in your pages and are rather executed before or after a page or document. This means
that they must contain PostScript that creates and prints one or more pages in a format that your printer will understand.
You cannot edit a PostScript attachment resource from PlanetPress Design. You must edit a PostScript attachment resource in
Windows using the appropriate application.
You can set PostScript attachments to execute before either one of these locations:
l The Document:In the document's properties, you can set any number of PostScript attachments to run before or after
each document, which is normally equal to one data page unless you are using the N-Up object or special Plan-
etPressTalk command to modify its execution order.
l A specific page:In a normal page's properties, you can set any number of PostScript attachments to run before or after
that page.
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