Changing the Default View
This section explains how to manipulate the images you preview, and how to customize your viewing options. In addition to panning, rotating, flipping, and inverting images, you can also display raster data as if it were a press sheet (positive and gripper edge down), or as if it were output from an imaging device (with polarity, orientation, and reading set accordingly).
To pan an image
1 Select the Pan tool.
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TIP: You can also pan an image by dragging the rectangular locator in the Navigator palette.
2 Click and hold down the mouse button on a point in the Preview window.
3 While still holding down the mouse button, pan the image by moving the mouse around the Preview window.
The image is updated when you release the mouse button.
To fit the image size to the screen size
1 Select View > Size To Fit.
This calculates an appropriate zoom factor to make the active Preview window fit on your screen. Image re-scaling is performed to the nearest zoom factor to the power of 2.
In this mode, any area that is not covered by the image is shown with a gray and white checkerboard pattern.
To rotate an image
1 Select the Preview window which contains the image you want to rotate.
2 Select View > Transform > Rotate 90 CW to rotate the image 90° clockwise, or View > Transform > Rotate 90 CCW to rotate the image 90° counterclockwise. You can also use the Rotate tools:
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3 Repeat the procedure to rotate an image through 180°, or 270°.
The thumbnail in the Navigator palette reflects the new orientation. The Navigator palette does not resize; the thumbnail does. The feed direction and punch indicators are also rotated.
In “Size to Fit” mode the window size may need to grow to accommodate the new orientation and to keep the same zoom level. If this is not possible, the zoom level is adjusted to the “Size to Fit” mode. The window only grows if necessary; it never shrinks.
NOTE: Rotating an image does not change the raster data, or affect other views.
To flip an image
1 Select the Preview window which contains the image you want to flip.
2 Select View > Transform > Flip Horizontal to flip the image on the horizontal axis (left-to-right).
3 Select View > Transform > Flip Vertical to flip the image on the vertical axis (upside-down). You can also use the Flip tools:
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The thumbnail in the Navigator palette reflects the new orientation. The feed direction and punch indicators are also flipped.
NOTE: Flipping an image does not change the raster data, or affect other views.
To invert an image (negative)
1 Select the Preview window which contains the image you want to invert.
2 Select View > Transform > Invert, or click the Invert tool.
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The image is inverted. The thumbnail in the Navigator palette also reflects the new state.
Inverting an image is useful for previewing negative separations. It transposes the solid areas of an image to transparent, and transparent areas to solid, and is applied to each of the image separations.
For example, suppose an image is made up of 4 separations; cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Each separation is actually made up of only 2 types of areas - solid areas (black) and transparent areas. When you select Invert, Preview reverses the display of these areas individually on each separation. This means that, on the cyan plate, all cyan areas are displayed as transparent, and all transparent areas are displayed as cyan. The same reversal is applied to the magenta, yellow, and black plates.
NOTE: Inverting an image does not change the raster data, or affect other views.
To display a full-size image
1 Select the Preview window which contains the image you want to display.
2 Select View > Actual Pixels.
The image in the currently active Preview window is displayed full size, at the zoom factor of 1:1 (i.e. one raster data pixel is displayed using 1 screen pixel).
NOTE: Only the full version of Apogee allows you to preview high resolution raster data (in order to check traps, halftone dots, etc.). Certain Apogee versions can be upgraded to include the high resolution Raster Preview option.
To display/hide separations
1 Select the Preview window which contains the image you want to view.
2 Select the Inks palette.
This window allows you to toggle individual separations on or off.
3 Click the eye icon next to one or more of the ink names to toggle the separations on or off.
You can hold down the Alt key when you click on the eye icon. This hides all other separations, showing only the one you clicked on. Repeat this action to bring back all hidden separations. Alt-clicking on a hidden separation shows that separation, hiding all others.
All combinations of process and spot color separations can be selected.
To view raster data as a press sheet
1 Select the Preview window which contains the image you want to view.
2 Select View > Press Sheet.
The raster data is displayed as a press sheet (positive and gripper edge down).
NOTE: This does not change the raster data or your Client Preference settings, and does not affect any other views.
To view raster data as output from an imaging device
1 Select the Preview window which contains the image you want to view.
2 Select View > Device Output.
The raster data is displayed as if it were the output of the imaging device (polarity, orientation, reading, and punch marks are set accordingly). In this view, the feed direction indicator in the Navigator palette always points up.
NOTE: This does not change the raster data or your Client Preference settings, and does not affect any other views.
To show / hide the Ruler
1 Select the Preview window.
2 Select View > Rulers, or click the Rulers tool to toggle on or off the Ruler in the Preview window.
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The Ruler is displayed along the edges of the Preview window, starting from the top left corner. The default unit of measurement is taken from your Preferences.
When the zoom level is sufficiently high, the ruler has the following marks:
Units | Numbered marks | Major marks | Minor marks |
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cms | Every cm | Every 1/2 cm | Every mm |
inches | Every inch | Every 1/2 inch | Every 1/8 inch |
You can display rulers for each of the Preview Windows.
To show / hide the Grid
1 Select the Preview window.
2 Select View > Grid, or click the Grid tool to toggle on or off the Grid in the Preview window.
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Gridlines are displayed for every major and minor division of the Ruler. Major divisions are drawn in dark blue, subdivisions in light blue.
NOTE: The gridlines do not necessarily match with the ruler divisions.
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