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From: Oliver Heins <olli@sopos.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: overprinting backgrounds
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:11:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aaxpfnba.fsf@sopos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B1E4F18.9090603@gmx.net> (Peter Rolf's message of "Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:05:28 +0100")

Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net> writes:

> Oliver Heins schrieb:
>> I have another question.
>>
>> The print shop wants the background image to be overprinted.  Is it
>> sufficiant to set »overprint=yes« once in \setupcolors or does one need
>> to explicitely tell the region with \startoverprint ... \stopoverprint?
>>
>>   
> simply use \startoverprint ... \stopoverprint for the text
> regions. you may need to add \startknockout ... \stopknockout for
> picture elements in that region. the "overprint=yes" option is for
> document wide setting, so this is not what you want.
> anyhow, if you own a copy of acrobat, you can visualize the
> overprinted elements in the output preview (color warnings).

I managed to get a copy of acrobat.  Now I understand the benefits and
risks of overprinting.  Thank you for pointing out!

Best regards,
 olli

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-11 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-08  8:57 Oliver Heins
2009-12-08 13:05 ` Peter Rolf
2009-12-11 17:11   ` Oliver Heins [this message]
2009-12-11 17:16     ` Martin Schröder
     [not found]       ` <874onxfll5.fsf@sopos.org>
     [not found]         ` <68c491a60912111004q1828258ag89945efe84ebc563@mail.gmail.com>
2009-12-12 17:40           ` Oliver Heins

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