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3. In the Preferences dialog box, expand Behavior, click Color, and set the color management options.
l Select Color Management Active. Note that you must select this option before you can select the monitor
and printer color profiles.
l Set Monitor Profile to the color profile for the monitor of the computer on which you are running PlanetPress
Design.
l Set Printer Profile to the color profile for the printer on which you intend to execute the document.
4. Click Close.
When you use color management profiles, PlanetPress Design attempts to display the color on your monitor as close with so it
is as close as possible to the printed result.
The following limitations apply, however:
l Since external variables such as lighting, time of day and different users can impact colors, there is no guarantee of the
result.
l Changing the color profile does not, in any way, change printed and PDFoutput colors. It is only and exclusively meant
for monitor display.
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.
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