I need to be able to view color separations of FreeHand files. Is there any way
possible to do this. Maybe using distiller or something...I don't know! Any
help would be great. Is there a work around? Thanks!

> I need to be able to view color separations of FreeHand files.

FreeHand doesn't offer color separation preview.

Best option:

Print to a Postscript File, Distill with Press Quality settings. View in
Acrobat Pro>Advanced>Separation Preview.

Second best option:

If you have a Postscript printer, print separations directly from FreeHand.

Poor man's option which can be used only if all art is vector art, and no
raster images, raster effects, tiled fills or extrusions have been used:

1. Duplicate file.
2. Duplicate pages according to number of separation colors used.
3. Release brushes if used.
4. Run Xtras>Color>Name All Colors
5. On each page, use Find & Replace Graphics>Change>Color/'Change in Page'
to replace all colors but one with white.
6. Replace the remaining color with black.
7. Select next page, and change colors to white and black, replacing a
different color with black.
8. Repeat for each page.
9. Each page represents a color separation.

Judy Arndt

> Best option:
>
> Print to a Postscript File, Distill with Press Quality settings. View in
> Acrobat Pro>Advanced>Separation Preview.

This is a very good way to check black overprinting. Uncheck black ink to
see if coloured objects and background have white knocked out text, lines,
etc.

Jukka

we always use t his option to check - especially when files are to be printed
in black and white. We book ad space for one client of ours who has a
"designer" prepare his artwork. The designer prepares it in InDy (I think) and
supplies us with a pdf. Every time we check it the "black and white" artwork is
actually in CMYK with all four colours in the mix. We then have to open the pdf
in PS, convert to grayscale and re run the pdf (which we usually do through FH
using the method outlined above).

We then recheck and send off to the media.

Yes - we have told them time and time again - but they just don't seem to
(want to) understand....

ho hum

this method will also help you catch spot colours if some have slipped through
on a job which is supposed to be CMYK, or, in fact, help you see that what was
supposed to be a spot colour has been converted to CMYK (more likely) - all
useful

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The move was a sign that fighting could escalate on a second, western front after the conflict initially broke out last week around South Ossetia, the separatist enclave further east.
President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia said its forces had “completed a significant part of the operations to oblige Georgia, the Georgian authorities, to restore peace to South Ossetia,” according to a transcript of his remarks with Anatoly Serdyukov, the defense minister, on the Kremlin Web site.
Separately, Russia said it was seeking an emergency meeting with NATO to discuss the Georgian crisis.
But the Russian Defense Ministry said that armored vehicles and troops had overrun a military base in the Georgian town of Senaki, 25 miles south of the Abkhazian border, suggesting that Russian troops had already begun to move south from the enclave into Georgia proper.
The Russian ultimatum, issued by Maj. Gen. Sergei Chaban, commander of Russian peacekeeping forces in Abkhazia, called for Georgian troops to disarm in the Zugdidi District, along the border between Abkhazia and Georgia.
Russia has poured extra forces into Abkhazia, where it now has at least 9,000 troops and 350 armored vehicles.
Giga Bokeria, a Georgian official close to the president, said the ultimatum raised alarms that Russian troops would now make a broader push into Georgian territory in the west of the country. Many Georgian troops have been tied up in fighting farther east near South Ossetia.
A pivotal question in the conflict, which has involved heavy fighting since late last week, is whether Russia would push beyond these regions and farther into Georgia.
On Sunday, a reporter for The New York Times saw an armored personnel carrier emblazoned with the letters MT, the Russian abbreviation for peacekeepers, on the street in Senaki and on Monday saw tanks and troops occupying the military base there. However, there was no immediate sign of fighting.

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