arts-pdf crackerjack 5.1 User Manual
ARTS PDF Crackerjack User Guide
Introduction
1. Introduction
This document contains information on both the Macintosh and Windows ® versions of ARTS
PDF Crackerjack™. Wherever appropriate, the differences are clearly indicated. If ARTS PDF
PDF Crackerjack™. Wherever appropriate, the differences are clearly indicated. If ARTS PDF
Crackerjack is used with Adobe ® Acrobat ® 5.05 in OS X there are other differences which are
clearly indicated as applying only to OS X usage. This document specifically covers the features in
clearly indicated as applying only to OS X usage. This document specifically covers the features in
ARTS PDF Crackerjack 5.0 and its companion ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot, so it should not be used
as a reference for earlier versions of the products.
as a reference for earlier versions of the products.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack provides a set of professional output tools for PDF documents. With ARTS
PDF Crackerjack, you can control all of the important output issues that distinguish pay-for-print
PDF Crackerjack, you can control all of the important output issues that distinguish pay-for-print
from personal use. These include fine positioning, scaling, orientation, separations, screening, and
more. With ARTS PDF Crackerjack, you can create PostScript files for downstream prepress
more. With ARTS PDF Crackerjack, you can create PostScript files for downstream prepress
applications or imagesetters, platemakers, digital presses, color printer/copiers, proofers, plotters,
and film recorders. ARTS PDF Crackerjack is also handy for separating PDF files originally created
and film recorders. ARTS PDF Crackerjack is also handy for separating PDF files originally created
with Microsoft applications such as Word, Publisher, and Excel, a particularly sticky problem for
graphic arts service providers. With this release, ARTS PDF Crackerjack now also includes the
ability to preview the separations that ARTS PDF Crackerjack can generate. This feature allows the
graphic arts service providers. With this release, ARTS PDF Crackerjack now also includes the
ability to preview the separations that ARTS PDF Crackerjack can generate. This feature allows the
user to check separations before printing them and to view the effects of prepress parameters such
as overprinting. Additionally, ARTS PDF Crackerjack 5 still includes important features first
as overprinting. Additionally, ARTS PDF Crackerjack 5 still includes important features first
introduced in ARTS PDF Crackerjack 3, such as, color management, black overprint, auto-size
media selection, backgrounds, bleed support, and the ability to output PostScript 3 features, such
media selection, backgrounds, bleed support, and the ability to output PostScript 3 features, such
as, duotones/tritones/quadtones, smooth shading, and spot color gradients.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot is an automation option for the award-winning ARTS PDF Crackerjack.
With Pilot, you can create and manage one or more “hot folders” to automate your use of ARTS
PDF Crackerjack. All of the features you use in ARTS PDF Crackerjack, including separations,
With Pilot, you can create and manage one or more “hot folders” to automate your use of ARTS
PDF Crackerjack. All of the features you use in ARTS PDF Crackerjack, including separations,
screening, media selection, and more, can be saved in user-defined settings files and matched to
hot folders. These settings files can be set up either for particular applications or print job
hot folders. These settings files can be set up either for particular applications or print job
classifications, or, for targeting output to different devices. Once configured, you only need to drop
a PDF document into a hot folder for ARTS PDF Crackerjack and Pilot to pick it up and print it.
a PDF document into a hot folder for ARTS PDF Crackerjack and Pilot to pick it up and print it.
ARTS PDF Crackerjack and ARTS PDF Crackerjack Pilot may be used with the full version of Adobe
Acrobat 5.0, 6.0 or 7.0.
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