Convert shading to images

Belongs to

Category: Prepress
Type: Changes
Since Version: 13 update 2

What it does

Converts shadings and shading color spaces to images, in order to improve the performance of RIPs that have difficulties handling shadings.

This Action is able to handle objects, text and masks with shadings, as well as shaded color spaces in the fill and stroke of paths, text, and image masks. In case of image masks, the combined visible area of all selected objects that use shading is converted to an image which is used as a coloured tiling pattern.

If the shading is tagged with an ICC profile, the resulting image will be tagged with the same ICC profile; if the shading does not have an ICC profile attached, the resulting image won't have one either.

Tip: As only the visible content of the shading is replaced, we recommend performing all conversions that change the bounding box (e.g. changes to the font size or the width of the stroke) BEFORE running this Action.

Note that due to this conversion, the file size will increase.

Options

In the attributes of this Action, you can determine:

The preferred resolution of the resulting images (by default: 300 ppi)
The compresssion type (JPEG, JPEG2000, ZIP or none)
The quality of the images.