Adobe 65009333 User Guide - Page 55

Acrobat (.pdf) and Illustrator (.ai) import options, Gamma Value, Show Preview, s, Crop

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USING INCOPY CS4 50 Working with InCopy documents as a low-resolution or non-PostScript printer or computer monitor). Deselect this option to place the image without applying any gamma correction. By default, this option is selected if the PNG graphic was saved with a gamma value. Gamma Value This option, available only if Apply Gamma Correction is selected, displays the gamma value that was saved with the graphic. To change the value, type a positive number from 0.01 to 3.0. When PNG files are imported, the settings in the Image Import Options dialog box are always based on the selected file, not on the default or last-used settings. Acrobat (.pdf) and Illustrator (.ai) import options The layout, graphics, and typography in a placed PDF are preserved. As with other placed graphics, you cannot edit a placed PDF page within InCopy . You can control the visibility of layers in a layered PDF. You can also place more than one page of a multipage PDF. When you place a PDF that was saved with passwords, you'll be prompted to enter the required passwords. If the PDF file was saved with usage restrictions (for example, no editing or printing), but no passwords, you can place the file. When you place a PDF (or a file saved with Illustrator 9.0 or later) and select Show Import Options in the Place dialog box, you'll see a dialog box containing the following options: Show Preview Preview a page in the PDF before you place it. If you're placing a page from a PDF that contains multiple pages, click the arrows, or type a page number under the preview image to preview a specific page. Pages Specify the pages you want to place: the page displayed in the preview, all pages, or a range of pages. For Illustrator files, you can specify which artboard to place. If you specify multiple pages, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while placing the file to place them all at the same time, overlapping each other. Crop To Specify how much of the PDF page to place: • Bounding Box Places the PDF page's bounding box, or the minimum area that encloses the objects on the page, including page marks. • Art Places the PDF only in the area defined by a rectangle that the author created as a placeable artwork (for example, clip art). • Crop Places the PDF only in the area that is displayed or printed by Adobe Acrobat. • Trim Identifies the place where the final produced page will be physically cut in the production process, if trim marks are present. • Bleed Places only the area that represents where all page content should be clipped, if a bleed area is present. This information is useful if the page is being output in a production environment. Note that the printed page may include page marks that fall outside the bleed area. • Media Places the area that represents the physical paper size of the original PDF document (for example, the dimensions of an A4 sheet of paper), including page marks. Updated 29 April 2009

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USING INCOPY CS4
Working with InCopy documents
as a low-resolution or non-PostScript printer or computer monitor). Deselect this option to place the image without
applying any gamma correction. By default, this option is selected if the PNG graphic was saved with a gamma value.
Gamma Value
This option, available only if Apply Gamma Correction is selected, displays the gamma value that was
saved with the graphic. To change the value, type a positive number from 0.01
to 3.0.
When PNG files are imported, the settings in the Image Import Options dialog box are always based on the selected
file, not on the default or last-used settings.
Acrobat (.pdf) and Illustrator (.ai) import options
The layout, graphics, and typography in a placed PDF are preserved. As with other placed graphics, you cannot edit a
placed PDF page within InCopy . You can control the visibility of layers in a layered PDF. You can also place more
than one page of a multipage PDF.
When you place a PDF that was saved with passwords, you’ll be prompted to enter the required passwords. If the PDF
file was saved with usage restrictions (for example, no editing or printing), but no passwords, you can place the file.
When you place a PDF (or a file saved with Illustrator 9.0 or later) and select Show Import Options in the Place dialog
box, you’ll see a dialog box containing the following options:
Show Preview
Preview a page in the PDF before you place it. If you’re placing a page from a PDF that contains multiple
pages, click the arrows, or type a page number under the preview image to preview a specific page.
Pages
Specify the pages you want to place: the page displayed in the preview, all pages, or a range of pages. For
Illustrator files, you can specify which artboard to place.
If you specify multiple pages, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac
OS) while placing the file to place them all at
the same time, overlapping each other.
Crop To
Specify how much of the PDF page to place:
Bounding Box
Places the PDF page’s bounding box, or the minimum area that encloses the objects on the page,
including page marks.
Art
Places the PDF only in the area defined by a rectangle that the author created as a placeable artwork (for
example, clip art).
Crop
Places the PDF only in the area that is displayed or printed by Adobe Acrobat.
Trim
Identifies the place where the final produced page will be physically cut in the production process, if trim
marks are present.
Bleed
Places only the area that represents where all page content should be clipped, if a bleed area is present. This
information is useful if the page is being output in a production environment. Note that the printed page may include
page marks that fall outside the bleed area.
Media
Places the area that represents the physical paper size of the original PDF document (for example, the
dimensions of an A4 sheet of paper), including page marks.
Updated 29 April 2009