Tutorial

Contents - Glossary - Job - Renderstyles - Settings - Viewing

One of the key things to understand with Cad Publisher is that the renderstyles ( we will look at renderstyles later) can be set up to produce very specific results for monochrome, color and color separation output.

It is not essential that a renderstyle is set up for each of the outputs, it is just possible.

Each of those outputs can be viewed in the program by selecting the appropriate tab.

Views
CAD
Shows what the original CAD work looks like using the CAD colors.

It can be very useful to come back to the CAD view from a rendered view when you are working up a rendering.

For example you may have some objects underneath an area fill that cannot be seen in the rendered view, but are clearly visible in the CAD view. You can select the object to find out what layer it is on and move its position in the Layers list.

Geometry
Shows the CAD work as outline geometry. It uses a green chalkboard background with white line work.

It can be very useful to use the Geometry view to see how the CAD objects have been drawn.

Monochrome
This shows how the drawing will be rendered acoording to the settings file and monochrome plates of the renderstyles from the renderstyle library file that have been used for the processing.

Color
This shows how the drawing will be rendered according to the settings file and color plates of the renderstyles from the renderstyle library file that have been used for the processing.

Separations
This shows how the drawing will be rendered acoording to the settings file and cmyk1234 plates of the renderstyles from the renderstyle library file that have been used for the processing.

Plates
Some history
When you look at a book with pictures, those pictures are referenced in the book as plates.

In the printing process they also use printing "plates" to produce the finished printed work.

The cmyk1234 plates are used for color separation output in the offset printing process. The cmyk1234 are the individual printing plates that take the ink to produce the output.

Those ink colors are:

• c = cyan
• m = magenta
• y = yellow
• k = black
• 1 = Spot color 1
• 2 = Spot color 2
• 3 = Spot color 3
• 4 = Spot color 4

The spot colors are usually solid colors mixed by the printer for a specific result.

Cad Publisher enables you to produce output files for the normal four color process (cmyk) plus four spot colors.

Now we need see how easy it is to get around all of the views and plates.