Adobe 26001360 Printing Guide - Page 12

Non-native art, Linked PDF files, Text editability, Importing layers from Photoshop

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• If you want to preserve the overall appearance of the selection and flatten transparency, choose Preserve Appearance and Overprints. 10 Note: Formatted text copied from Illustrator to InDesign prints at high resolution, but cannot be edited. Access from Illustrator > Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard in Mac OS, and Edit > Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard in Windows. Non-native art: When you import artwork from a PDF file, it may contain data that cannot be created/edited within Illustrator. This is called non-native art and includes monotone, duotone, and tritone images. By default, non-native art is labeled in the Layers and Appearance palettes. You can select, move, save, and perform basic transformations (such as scaling, rotating, or skewing) on non-native art. However, you cannot select and edit its individual components. Linked PDF files: When placing PDF files into Illustrator CS, including Photoshop multitone files, you can leave them linked rather than embedded and they will print as intended. Even in linked duotones and tritones that interact with transparency and are set to overprint, spot colors are retained, giving you complete control over how spot colors are handled. Text editability: Illustrator CS and Photoshop CS now share the same underlying text composition technology making text more editable when transferred between applications. Importing layers from Photoshop: When you open or embed a Photoshop (PSD) file, you are given the option to Convert Photoshop Layers to Objects. When selected, Illustrator preserves as much layer structure as possible without sacrificing appearance.

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If you want to preserve the overall appearance of the selection and flatten transparency,
choose Preserve Appearance and Overprints.
Access from Illustrator > Preferences > File Handling & Clipboard in Mac OS, and Edit > Preferences > File
Handling & Clipboard in Windows.
Non-native art:
When you import artwork from a PDF file, it may contain data that cannot
be created/edited within Illustrator. This is called non-native art and includes monotone,
duotone, and tritone images. By default, non-native art is labeled <Non-Native Art> in the
Layers and Appearance palettes. You can select, move, save, and perform basic transforma-
tions (such as scaling, rotating, or skewing) on non-native art. However, you cannot select
and edit its individual components.
Linked PDF files:
When placing PDF files into Illustrator CS, including Photoshop multi-
tone files, you can leave them linked rather than embedded and they will print as intended.
Even in linked duotones and tritones that interact with transparency and are set to overprint,
spot colors are retained, giving you complete control over how spot colors are handled.
Text editability:
Illustrator CS and Photoshop CS now share the same underlying text
composition technology making text more editable when transferred between applications.
Note:
Formatted text copied
from Illustrator to
InDesign prints at high
resolution, but cannot
be edited.
Importing layers from Photoshop:
When you open or embed a Photoshop (PSD)
file, you are given the option to Convert Photoshop Layers to Objects. When selected,
Illustrator preserves as much layer structure as possible without sacrificing appearance.