12 Welcome
• PDF Export
Step up to the worldwide standard for cross-platform, WYSIWYG
electronic information delivery. Your PDF output will look just like
your DrawPlus document... in one compact package with embeddable
fonts, easily printable or viewable in a Web browser.
• Professional Print Output
PDF publishing to the PDF/X-1 or PDF/X-1a file format is a great
choice for professional output from DrawPlus. Deliver with
confidence to your print partner, safe in the knowledge that your
single composite print-ready PDF drawing includes all fonts and
colour information for spot or process colour separation. Select file
information, crop marks, registration targets, and densitometer/colour
calibration bars for inclusion in your PDF. You have full control over
prepress settings for output.
New features
Professional
• New Architecture—Better Performance!
With a new drawing engine, DrawPlus is now faster, more powerful,
and optimized for computers with multi-core processors. Enjoy even
greater drawing fidelity!
• Start-to-Finish CMYK Workflow (see p. 23)
For professional printing to PDF or image, create drawings in CMYK
primary colour mode! You'll be able to work natively in CMYK colour
space, right through to pre-press output. Live Plate View lets you
interactively switch on/off CMYK plates as you draw.
• Composite Opacity and Knockout Groups (see p. 169)
Assign opacity to a group, along with grouped objects, using
composite opacity! As another opacity control, knockout groups
prevent overlapped, semi-transparent object areas from contributing
their opacity to overlapping objects.
