From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
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View overprinting - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Astute Graphics for Illustrator
View overprinting
- [Instructor] Let's see how to use Astute Graphics InkQuest to view overprinting in Illustrator files. I'll start by going to the view menu and choosing Illustrator's native overprint preview. And I can see that there are some changes in the appearance of my file but I'll get a much clearer look at them with InkQuest. So I'll choose view, InkQuest output preview, overprint preview. And in this view, my artwork is dimmed to 10% opacity and overprinting colors are highlighted in red while overprinting white areas are highlighted in blue. And you can choose the different highlight colors for both by clicking on the color squares. So in this case I can see that my black lines and my spot color are overprinting the way that I want them to but I have a problem to fix and that's the overprinting white here of the outlined text. So I'll click done and turn off Illustrator's native overprint preview, select the text, open the…
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