This dialog box allows you to view or edit the Render settings of the PDF Render Task Processor. These settings define how color management is applied to the incoming data.

The settings you see in this dialog depend on the Color Management mode you select at the top of the dialog. In the Mode drop-down list, you choose one of the following modes:

The following settings can also be applied in this mode:

They are explained below.

You can attach Profiles for the following objects:

For each of these objects, you have a tab corresponding to the Color Space (RGB, Gray, CMYK, Spot, Document). Once you have selected one of these tabs, you can then choose to attach either a Profile or a Link to the Color Space. The corresponding drop-down list is then activated, and you can select the profile or link you want to attach from the list.

The following settings can also be applied in this mode:

They are explained below.

You can set either a device link profile or a profile for tagged and untagged objects. If there is an output intent in the PDF document (tagged), you can choose to use the document profile as tagged profile.

Provides the following options:

Provides the following options:

Lists all Content Profiles, according to the selected color space.

You can overwrite render intents, and specify exactly how they should be overwritten. For more information on render intents, refer to “Rendering Intent”. Choose one of the following: From Input, Same as Document, Perceptual, Relative Colorimetric or Saturation.

This option may be available depending on source profile, destination profile and rendering intent.

The profiles shown in the list should include all the available device link profiles of which the source color space corresponds to the color space of the tab, and the destination color space is the same as that of the destination profile.

Lists all Profile Link Exceptions. This option is only available in the CMYK tab.

Provides the following options:

You can choose off, or maximum 2, 3, or 4 colors.

If this option is selected, the paper white of the document profile is used in the color calculation. If this option is not selected, the paper white of the color book is used in the calculation of the spot colors.

The Document Profile is the ICC profile specified in the document.

Provides the following options:

Provides the following options:

Choose one of the following: Perceptual, Relative Colorimetric or Saturation.

Recent developments in the Color Management engine offer ‘Advanced CMM’, which provides a better way of bringing (smarter) colors into gamut. However, this comes at a small cost: it is a little slower.

If the Honor Application Settings check box is selected, all overprint settings will be taken from the information in the incoming document. In this case, the Force Knockout and Overprint settings are not displayed. If this check box is cleared, the Task Processor settings are displayed and enabled, and will overrule all overprint settings in the incoming document.

This section is only displayed when the Overprint Honor application settings check box is deselected. Here, you can choose your black overprint options by selecting the available check boxes.

You can overprint any combination of black objects (lines, fills, and text). In the case of overprinting text, a point size limit can be set, above which no overprinting of the characters is forced. Setting this value high will cause all black text to be overprinted.