Prinect PDF Toolbox

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