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4. Set the Rotation for the image using the buttons

5. Use the File field to set the path for the linked image. If the path is valid, the image will be shown in the document. Otherwise, a placeholder is shown.

If you used a placed image to create the Image Mark, its file path will be entered automatically.

You can enter the path manually, or use the Browse button.

You can use dynamic text in the path, e.g. the Job Folder. Use the Insert/Modify button. For

more information on dynamic text, see

Text Mark properties

on page 115

6. Color can be set to Static or Dynamic. For an EPS image, only Static is allowed.

Note: If you switch from Dynamic to Static, the colors from the original file are used. If there is a difference in the number of channels between two real images, the mark will switch back to static.

7. White Underprint allows to add White Underprint to your Mark. See

White Underprint

page 128

Note: Image marks can NOT be modified (rotating, channel mapping, etc) outside of the

Dynamic Marks Properties palette.

White Underprint

White Underprint allows you to create a white background underneath the selected marks.

This white background can be necessary when printing on transparent or metal material.

White Underprint is available for Text Marks, Barcode Marks and Grid Marks

White Underprint Object

White Underprint objects will be created in a top-level "White Underprint" layer, and will be put in overprint.

The White Underprint object will be

• a solid rectangle, using the bounding box of a

Text Mark

• a solid rectangle, using the bounding box of a

Barcode Mark

• a solid rectangle, using the bounding box of a

Grid Mark

The Add Bar option, available for Grid Marks, will stretch the White Underprint over the full size of the Media Box (or Trim Box if no Media Box is defined).

• For vertical grid marks, the White Underprint object will be a vertical bar, using the width of the grid mark, and the height of the Media Box

• For horizontal grid marks, the White Underprint object will be a horizontal bar, using the height of the grid mark, and the width of the Media Box

If the Mark is modified, deleted or expanded, the White Underprint will also be modified, deleted or expanded.

White Underprint Ink

The Ink used for White Underprint on Dynamic Marks can be defined by clicking the

Ink

Settings button, and entering the name of the Ink to be used for White Underprint.

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In case the defined ink doesn't exist yet, a new spot color will be added to the swatches, using the Ink name and the Color patch.

When the name of an existing swatch is entered, this ink will be used for White Underprint.

Note: White Underprint can only use Spot Colors. If an existing swatch name is entered, and the swatch is not a spot color, a warning will be generated: "A swatch by this name already exists but is not defined as a Spot Color".

If you change the White Underprint ink, all White Underprint objects on Dynamic Marks in the open document will be changed as well.

The White Underprint ink definition is saved in the Mark Set. If you load a Mark Set containing a different White Underprint ink definition as in the open document, you can choose if you want to keep your White Underprint ink, or if you want to load the White Underprint ink definition from the Mark Set.

4.4.4 Changing the Symbol of a Standard Mark

You can change the Symbol used for a Standard Mark in the Dynamic Mark Properties, by clicking the Set Symbol button, and selecting the desired Symbol from the list.

To change or add Symbols,

1. In the Dynamic Marks palette, select Open Symbol Library from the fly-out menu

The file DynamicMarks_CS6.ai (CS6) or DynamicMarks_AI18.ai (CC2014 and

CC2015)will be opened

2. Open the Illustrator Symbol Library by choosing Window > Symbols and use the Illustrator tools to add, edit, remove, duplicate, ... the symbols defined in the file.

3. Save and close the DynamicMarks file

The new and modified symbols will now be available when clicking Set Symbol in the Dynamic

Mark Properties.

4.5 Mark Sets

When no mark set is loaded, you get the option to load a mark set, or to create a new set.

From the Fly-out menu of the Dynamic Marks palette, you can

• Load a Mark Set

• Save the current Mark Set

• Delete the current Mark Set

• Manage Mark Sets

4.5.1 Load Mark Set

To load a Mark Set:

1. In the Fly-out menu of the Dynamic Marks palette, select Load Mark Set

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The Load dialog will show the Esko Default Mark Sets, and Mark Sets saved at the location

defined in the Dynamic Mark Preferences. See

Dynamic

Note: Since Mark Sets are regular .ai documents, the list will show all Adobe Illustrator files at the defined location. When loading an Illustrator file that doesn't contain a Mark Set, nothing will happen.

2. Select a Mark Set from the list, and click Load.

Note: If the Mark Set contains a mark with the same name as a mark already in the

Dynamic Marks palette, an error message will be given, and the Mark Set will not be loaded.

The marks from the loaded Mark Set are added in the Dynamic Marks palette. If you want to replace the current marks with the ones from the loaded Mark Set, you need to select all marks and delete them first.

If you load marks with dependencies, the mark will be attached to the object (e.g. PowerLayout

Grid or Named Art) with the same name as in the Mark Set file. If no such object exists, you will get an error message and the mark will be attached to the Trim Box.

4.5.2 Save Mark Set

To save a Mark Set:

1. In the Fly-out menu of the Dynamic Marks palette, select Save Mark Set

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The Save dialog will show the Mark Sets already saved at the location defined in the

Dynamic Mark Preferences. See

Dynamic Marks Preferences

on page 133

2. Enter a name for the Mark Set and click Save. If a Mark Set with this name already exists, you will get the option to overwrite it.

Note:

You can only save a Mark set if the Illustrator file is saved. If not, you will be prompted to do so before saving the Mark Set

Mark Sets are saved as simple .ai documents, containing only the objects needed for the Mark

Set.

Note: All Marks in a set need to have a unique name. If not, an error message is shown, and the Mark Set is not saved.

4.5.3 Delete Mark Set

To delete a Mark Set, select Delete Mark Set in the Fly-out menu of the Dynamic Marks palette.

The Mark Set, including all Dynamic Marks will be removed from the file.

Note: This does not remove a saved (and loaded) Mark Set from disk. To do so, select Manage

Mark Sets from the Fly-out menu. See

Manage Mark Sets

on page 131

4.5.4 Manage Mark Sets

To manage your Mark Sets:

1. In the Fly-out menu of the Dynamic Marks palette, select Manage Mark Sets

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The Manage Dynamic Mark Set dialog will show the Mark Sets saved at the location defined

in the Dynamic Mark Preferences. See

Dynamic Marks Preferences

on page 133

Note: Since Mark Sets are regular .ai documents, the list will show all Adobe Illustrator files at the defined location.

2. Select a Mark Set from the list, and

• Click Rename, enter a new name for the Mark Set, and click Rename to change the name of the Mark Set

• Click Delete to remove the Mark Set from the list. The actual Illustrator file will be deleted. This can not be undone.

4.5.5 Export Mark Sets

To use a Mark set in the Dynamic taskson an Automation Engine server, you can export your

Dynamic Marks set as a Dynamic Marks Set (.dmk).

To export your Mark Sets:

1. In the Fly-out menu of the Dynamic Marks palette, select Export Mark Set

2. Select a file name and location for the Dynamic Marks Template.

3. Move the file to your DFE server at this location: server

\bg_data_marks_v010\DynamicMarks

Limitations:

• The server does not support different fill and stroke setting

• It is not possible to choose technical inks only or printing inks only.

• Color Patch marks are not yet supporte. As a workaround, you could manually create a custom mark that looks like the Color Patch.

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Note: It is not possible to import a Mark Set back into Illustrator. It is highly recommended to keep the native Adobe Illustrator files for future modifications in the Marks.

4.5.6 Dynamic Marks Preferences

You can open the Dynamic Marks Preferences by choosing Illustrator > Preferences > Esko

> Dynamic Marks Preferences on Mac, or Edit > Preferences > Esko > Dynamic Marks

Preferences on Windows.

In the Dynamic Marks Preferences, you can set the location to save and load Mark Sets.

• Default Folder: Mark Sets will be saved to and loaded from the default Esko location.

• on Mac OS X: /Users/Shared/EskoArtwork/DynamicMarks/

• on Windows Vista and 7: x:\Users\Public\Documents\EskoArtwork

\DynamicMarks\

• on Windows XP: x:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data

\EskoArtwork\DynamicMarks\

• Custom Folder: Mark Sets will be saved to and loaded from a custom folder which you can select by clicking the Browse button.

4.5.7 Esko Mark Sets

When installing Dynamic Marks, a number of default Mark Sets are installed as well. These sets can not be changed, but you can load one of these sets, change it and save it under a different name.

Here is an overview of these Mark Sets:

1 x KAMA

A Custom Mark, using these settings:

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• The mark is a circle of 3.2 mm diameter, and a vertical and horizontal line of 6.5 mm. All lines are 0.15 mm thick.

• Attached to the Trim Box

• The center of the mark is vertically centered, and 12 mm to the right of the left border of the trim box.

• Using Darkest color

1 x Label Row

A Grid Mark, using these settings:

• attached to PowerLayout Grid 1

• on the right side, with a reference to the outer left cell

• using a 3mm offset in horizontal direction, 0mm in vertical direction

• repeat Every 1-up.

• symbol 10 x 5 mm in Registration color

1 x Sheet

A Custom Mark, using these settings:

• The mark is a rectangle of 10 by 5 mm.

• Attached to the Media Box

• A 3 mm horizontal offset to the upper right part of the Media Box

• using Registration color

2x Label Row

Two Grid Marks, using these settings:

• attached to PowerLayout Grid 1

• Right mark is on the right side, Left mark is on the left side, both with a reference to the outer left cell

• Right mark is aligned to the right bottom corner, Left mark to the upper left corner

• using a 3mm offset in horizontal direction, 0mm in vertical direction

• repeat Every 1-up.

• symbol 5 x 5 mm in Registration color

Mark Set 1 (Esko)

A set for maximum 6 inks in the document, units: mm

• 1 Registration Mark placed on every side

• a Text Mark with the name of the document

• a Text Mark with the date

• a Gradation Strip on the left, with 1 rectangle per ink, colored in 100%

• a Gradation Strip on the right, with a 40%, 80% and 100% rectangle for every ink.

• 6 Text Marks, one per ink, with the name of the ink, and colored in 100% of the ink.

Mark Set 2 (Esko)

A set for maximum 6 inks in the document, units: mm same as Mark Set 1, but with different type of Registration Mark

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Mark Set 3 (Esko)

A set for maximum 4 inks in the document, units: mm

• 12 Gallus elements on left and right side of the document

Mark Set 4 (Esko)

A set for maximum 6 inks in the document, units: mm

• Bearer Bars in vertical orientation and attached to the Trim Box

• 6 Text Marks, one per ink, with the name of the ink, placed inside the Bearer Bar, and colored with 0,2% tint to knock out the Bearer Bar in the same separation

Mark Set 5 (Esko)

A set for maximum 12 inks in the document, units: mm

• Bearer Bars in vertical orientation and attached to the Trim Box

• a Gradation Strip on the left, with one circle per ink, colored in 100%.

• a Gradation Strip on the right, with one circle per ink, colored in 50%.

• Registration Marks placed on the left and right side.

• 12 Gallus elements on left and right side of the document

• a Text Mark with the name of the document, colored in registration

• a Custom Mark setting a background for the above mentioned Text Mark

• 12 Text Marks, one per ink, with the name of the ink, and colored in 100% of the ink.

• a Custom Mark setting a background for the above mentioned Text Marks

• 12 Text Marks, one per ink, with the current Angle of the ink, and colored in 100% of the ink.

• 12 Text Marks, one per ink, with the current Ruling of the ink, and colored in 100% of the ink.

• a Text Mark with the date and time

• a Text Mark with the name of the author, based on the XMP info

4.6 Dynamic Marks Layer

When adding a Dynamic Mark for the first time to a document, a layer named "Dynamic

Marks" will be created. Standard Marks are created in the Dynamic Marks layer, Custom Marks are moved to the Dynamic Marks layer. If you rename the Dynamic Marks Layer, all Dynamic

Marks created later will still be created in or moved to this layer already containing dynamic marks.

Loading a Mark Set

If you load a Mark Set, the Dynamic Marks in the set will be placed in the same layer as saved in the set. This means you can have two different layers containing Dynamic Marks at that point. Newly created marks will then be placed in one of those layers.

Locking or hiding the Dynamic Marks Layer

If the Dynamic Marks layer is locked, you will not be able to add any mark. A message will be shown in the message palette. However, all indirect operations are possible, for example changes in the Ink Manager will change the gradation strip, even if the Dynamic Marks Layer is locked.

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If the Dynamic Marks layer is invisible, marks will be created / moved in the Dynamic Marks layer, and will immediately turn invisible.

4.7 Dynamic Panels in Dynamic Marks

When opening a document containing a Dynamic Panel, you will see those Dynamic Panels in the Dynamic Marks palette.

By selecting a Dynamic Info Panel and choosing Convert Panels to Dynamic Marks from the fly-out menu, you can convert the selected Dynamic Panel into one or more Dynamic Marks.

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• Every text item in the Dynamic Panel is converted to a separate Dynamic Text Mark, using the same variables.

• If possible, other panel items with the same color attribute will be grouped and combined in one single mark.

• The inks used in the Dynamic Panel are replaced by the corresponding Dynamic Marks color:

• A Dynamic Panel ink will become Dynamic color with mode "Only Printing Inks"

• A Dynamic Panel Technical ink becomes Dynamic color with mode "Only Technical Inks"

• Darkest ink becomes Darkest color

• An object using Registration swatch becomes Registration color

• Other inks (not Dynamic) become a static color.

• The position of converted panels will always be defined relative to the top left corner of the trim box

• Panel items that can't be converted into a Dynamic Mark (e.g. a linked image) will remain as a panel item, while other items are converted. A message will be shown.

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4.8 Tips and tricks

I open a new document, create an object to be used as a mark, and as soon as I use "Add

Selected Art as Mark", the color of the object changes or disappears. Why ?

If you have a document with e.g. only one rectangle, colored with 100% cyan in your document, the Ink Manager will only contain one ink (Cyan).

When you create a custom mark, the default color attribute is "Dynamic". At this moment, the color definition of the mark becomes "100% of the first ink in the ink manager". Because

Ink Manager doesn't read inks from marks with color attribute "Registration", "Darkest" or

"Dynamic", and because there are no other objects in the document, the inks list in the Ink

Manager will be empty, and so will the custom mark be.

As soon as another ink is used in the document, this ink will be the first ink in Ink Manager, and will be used by the Custom Mark.

In the same way, if the original document would contain e.g. one object in cyan and one in magenta (and nothing else), creating a Custom Mark from the cyan object would make magenta the first ink in the ink manager, so the mark would change from cyan to magenta.

Can I start from an existing standard mark to create my own mark symbols ?

Yes, you can, as long as you remember to expand the mark / symbol first (i.e. making it a regular object instead of a symbol).

What if I delete a symbol in the DynamicMarks(_CS6).ai file ?

If you delete a symbol in the DynamicMarks.ai file, the symbol will obviously no longer be available in the Set Symbol list. If you delete the default symbol for a Standard Mark, creating the corresponding Standard Mark will result in an error message. To fix this, you have to create these symbols again manually.

Existing marks will NOT be affected, since the symbol is internally copied in the file when creating the mark, or when setting a different symbol. This also means that you can open a file with marks using custom symbols (saved in your local DynamicMarks.ai file) on another computer without loosing the marks.

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5. PDF Import

5.1 Copyright Notice

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5.2 The PDF Import plug-in

The PDF Import plug-in allows opening Esko Normalized PDF files in Adobe Illustrator. Almost every PDF object or construction that can be present in an Esko Normalized PDF is supported, and no non-native art (also known as foreign art) is created.

In addition to the artwork content, various high-level information or metadata is preserved.

It also improves speed and memory allocation of Adobe Illustrator when a single raster file is linked multiple times into the Illustrator document,even when PDF Import is not directly used to import the document.

Errors and warnings generated during the import are logged to the Messages palette.

Known limitations:

Gradients of type Conical, Rectangle and Parallellogramic created by PackEdge cannot be imported in Adobe Illustrator, because Adobe Illustrator doesn't support those types of gradients

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5.3 Opening a PDF file

The behavior of the PDF Import plug-in and Illustrator depends on the type of file being opened:

• .inpdf : When the file being opened has the suffix .inpdf, it is automatically opened by

PDF Import.

• .pdf with Illustrator data: When the file being opened is an Adobe PDF with preserved

Illustrator editability, it is opened as Illustrator document.

• Regular .pdf : For all other PDF files, the following dialog is shown. PDF Import is used when the first option (Esko PDF) is chosen. Adobe Illustrator shows this dialog automatically when multiple file import filters support the file being opened.

When the PDF file has multiple pages, a dialog will pop up, allowing you to specify the page you want to import

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If you enter a page number that is not in the PDF file, the nearest possible page number will be taken.

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5.4 High-level information preserved by PDF Import

5.4.1 Layers

All Layer names are preserved, as well as the locked status and the printability flag.

Note:

The Normalized PDF format does not support the hidden/visible flag, therefore all layers (and artwork) present in the PDF file are imported as visible.

5.4.2 Named objects

For named objects, the names of the artwork are preserved.

5.4.3 Inks

Esko screenings, ink types, ink books, ink order and Printing Method as shown in the Ink

Manager are preserved.

5.4.4 Object based screening

Object based Esko screening is preserved and shown in the InkManager. The Screening plug-in is not needed for this functionality.

5.4.5 Structural Design (CAD) data

The original structural design file is reimported using the Structural Design plug-in that is part of Esko Data Exchange .

The original placement origin, rotation angle, front/back side, and printable part selection are preserved. When the structural design file cannot be found, the user is asked to browse for it.

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When it still can’t be found or importing fails, the original Structural Design layer is imported in expanded state and the link to the external file is lost.

5.4.6 Page boxes

All page boxes (Media Box, Trim Box, Crop Box, Art Box and Bleed Box) are imported and shown by the Trim Box and Media Box plug-in.

5.4.7 Text and fonts

When importing text, only the PDF content is imported. High-level editor-specific features such as styles are not in the PDF, and thus not preserved.

Text paragraphs are not preserved, and in general text lines are not preserved as well, depending on the formatting. It may happen that text is split into several text objects, where each object has a constant font style. In very rare circumstances, when it is not possible to determine the encoding, the text is contourized.

Any font available to Illustrator can be used without any limitations. When a font not available to Illustrator is used, a substitution is used. However, the original font name is preserved in the

Illustrator document. Illustrator gives the following warning in such cases:

When such a document is saved and reopened on a system with the font installed, it will be correctly rendered without any warning.

5.4.8 Linework with mixed (DeviceN) colors

Adobe Illustrator does not support mixing multiple inks (combinations of multiple spot inks or process inks and a spot ink) in a single fill or stroke. Instead, they are simulated by multiple fills resp. strokes visible in the Appearance palette.

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