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screen. (Guides in Back is off by default.) In addition, the Guides and Pasteboard preferences
now include a Minimum Vertical Offset option for extending the height of the pasteboard.
Mixed inks
Create swatches that can be mixed using spot colors. A mixed ink is based not on color
values but on inks already defined in the document, such as spot blue and process yellow
inks. For example, you can create a brown mixed-ink swatch that’s defined as a combina-
tion of specific percentages of a yellow spot and process black inks. When a document using
mixed inks is color-separated, a plate is marked only if it contains an ink that was actually
used. This is true when color-separating mixed inks using a built-in, in-RIP, or composite
workflow. In addition, mixed inks are preserved when you export PDF files, and when print-
ing to a composite printer.
Mixed ink swatches let you define color swatches using at least one spot color.
Mixed ink groups
Use a mixed-ink group to automatically generate a range of swatches based on existing
swatches. This is a quick way to create a set of related mixed-ink swatches. You create a
mixed-ink group by selecting two “parent” swatches and specifying increments for creat-
ing intermediate swatches (similar to using step-and-repeat with objects). This is valuable
when working with spot colors, because swatches in a mixed ink group can only use the
parent swatches as ink components—creating a mixed ink group from two spot colors does
not create process colors. Wide-ranging color palettes can be created even when the budget
limits the number of inks. Mixed-ink groups are linked to their parent inks, so if you edit
the parent inks, all of the swatches update in the mixed ink group. Objects that use swatches
in the mixed ink group are also updated.
