Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended - Manual (Page 473)

467 USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
Print production tools
Last updated 9/30/2011
• Objects set in spot colors can be preserved, converted, or mapped (aliased) to any other ink present in the
document. Objects include Separation, DeviceN, and NChannel color spaces. Spot colors can also be mapped to a
CMYK process color, if the process color model of the destination space is CMYK. Spot colors mapped to other
inks can be previewed in the Output Preview dialog box.
Note: If you want to convert specific spot plates, use Ink Manager in combination with the Convert Colors tool. To
convert only specific spot plates to process, map them to process in Ink Manager. Otherwise, all spots in the document
are converted to process if you have selected Spot Color as the color type.
More Help topics
“ Working with color profiles ” on page 424
“ Previewing output ” on page 462
“ Create an ink alias for a spot color ” on page 470
“ About rendering intents ” on page 432
Convert document colors
1 In the Convert Colors dialog box, select a conversion command. If the list contains no existing commands, click
Add to add the default conversion command.
2 Select the conversion command that you want to edit, and then select an option from the Matching Criteria:
Object Type Specifies if you want to convert the colors for the whole document or for a specific type of object within
the document.
Color Type Specifies the color space for conversion.
Text Size Specifies the minimum and maximum text size for text objects.
3 Select one of the available convert commands:
Preserve Keeps objects in the selected color space when the document is output.
Convert To Profile Uses the destination space profile to convert color objects to a common ICC profile for an output
device.
Decalibrate Removes embedded profiles from the color objects in that color space (or alternate space, if one is
specified for a spot color).
4 Specify the conversion profile.
5 Select the rendering intent to use for conversion. The default is Use Document Intent. If you select any of the other
intents, the selected intent overrides the document intent for the conversion.
6 Select Embed to embed the profile. Selecting embed, tags all objects with the selected conversion profile. As an
example, a document can contain five objects: one in grayscale and two each in the RGB and CMYK color spaces.
In this case, you can embed a separate color profile to calibrate the color for each color space, for a total of three
profiles. This process is useful if your RIP performs color management of PDFs or if you are sharing PDFs with
other users.
7 Select Convert Colors To Output Intent and specify the output intent profile to convert every object to the output
intent. An output intent describes the color reproduction characteristics of a possible output device or production
environment in which the document is printed.
8 Specify the pages to convert.