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Color Editor - Interactive Color Management

With its extensive range of functions, this plug-in for Adobe Acrobat provides cross-media assistance with color testing and optimization. PDF files are perfectly prepared for offset or digital printing, web publishing or CD-ROM productions. The key to this perfection is Heidelberg's Color Matching Method (CMM).

The most important functions at a glance:

  • Interactive color management based on userdefined and storable rules
  • Immediate display of color adaptations
  • Well-structured representation of actual and target status
  • Rapid recognition of RGB, device-specific and calibrated colors and color spaces such as Lab, ICCBased, Multicolor, CalRGB and DeviceRGB
  • Conversion of graphics and images from RGB, CMYK and all device-neutral color spaces
  • Different rendering intents for device-neutral color spaces such as CMYK/Gray and RGB/Lab
  • Optional retention of black generation or primary or secondary colors during CMYK to CMYK conversion
  • Option to use Multicolor target profiles
  • Use of special profi les for gray level objects
  • Handling of PDF/X output intents
  • Adjustable compression for edited images
  • Generation of spot colors, e. g. for the automatic conversion of RGB to CMYK
  • Optional conversion of fragments of the original color into spot color with retention of specified percentage values in order to preserve effects, such as vignettes
  • Backgrounding a spot color with CMYK to generate a stronger color impression
  • Renaming and deleting spot colors
  • Merging several spot colors to create one spot color or CMYK value
  • Conversion of spot colors into process colors via the integration of global and job-specific color tables
  • Contains PANTONE, PANTONE Hexachrome and HKS color tables as well as standard ICC profiles
  • Versatile color table editor
  • Special handling of objects that use solids for all colors (e.g. trademarks)
  • Special settings for overprinting and punching
  • Comprehensive support for profiles based on ICC specification 4.0
  • Powerful color measuring tool

 
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