From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
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Fix prepress problems with FindReplace - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
Fix prepress problems with FindReplace
In this movie we will see how you can use Astute Graphics Find/Replace to address Pre-press problems in professional print jobs. Here we have a bunch of filled vector objects that will be used on food labels and they need to be printed in specific spot colors to match the design and to save on printing costs. And I can see those splotches in the appearance controls in the properties panel. But that's no guarantee that these are the only colors used in the document. There might be other process colors that were used by mistake. So, before we send this off to the printer, we need to be sure that there are no process colors in this document. You could use Illustrators Seperations Preview Panel for that but Find/Replace can do much more. Included searching on specific layers or just in a selection, it can highlight each problematic object and select them for you. So, to find out if there are any process colors in these…
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