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The Apply Settings to Print button changes the flattener settings in the Print dialog box only.
If you want to change flattener settings for PDF output, be sure to specify the flattener preset
in the Advanced panel in the Export PDF dialog box. Also note that the Apply Settings to
Print button changes the flattener settings for the entire document. If you want to change
the flattener settings for one spread (a spread override), you can use the Flattener Preview
palette to evaluate alternate settings, but you need to apply the spread override by selecting
the spread in the Pages palette and choosing Spread Flattening > Custom from the Pages
palette menu.
To display the Flattener Preview palette:
Choose Window > Output Preview > Flattener.
To evaluate the effects of flattening:
1. In the Flattener Preview palette, select an option from the Highlight pop-up menu:
• Rasterized Complex Regions highlights areas that rasterize based on the settings in the
transparency flattener preset. When the Raster/Vector Balance slider is set to 100, no
areas are highlighted because rasterization only occurs within the outlines of each text
or line art object that’s affected.
• Transparent Objects highlights objects that use transparency. It doesn’t indicate any of
the possible results of flattening.
• All Affected Objects highlights both objects that use transparency and objects that
must be flattened because they interact with the objects that use transparency. This
setting does not indicate flattening results, but it’s useful because it indicates all objects
that could potentially be flattened.
• Affected Graphics highlights images that will be flattened, but not effects or non-image
objects (such as vector drawings). This setting is especially useful for OPI workflows,
because the highlighted images are the ones that must be swapped with high-resolu-
tion versions at output time in order to flatten properly. If an image isn’t highlighted,
you don’t need to be concerned about flattening it in an OPI workflow. You can use this
setting together with the Info palette to verify the resolution of any highlighted images.
• Outlined Strokes highlights which strokes will be slightly thicker when flattened.
Sometimes strokes are converted into filled areas of the same width to recreate a
transparent effect when flattened. These areas may appear thicker because some RIPs
process strokes differently than filled shapes, but the effect is usually not visible on
device resolutions above 1200 dpi. If you are printing on a device below 1200 dpi
and this feature highlights many objects on a page, you can make all strokes appear
consistent by applying a preset where Convert All Strokes to Outlines is turned on.
• Outlined Text highlights which type characters will be converted to outlines under
the currently applied transparency flattener preset. Characters become slightly thicker
when converted to outlines, but the effect may not be visible on device resolutions
