smooth shades. It does not affect the Illustrator blend tool. It
applies only to objects created with the gradient tool.
Additionally, this feature prevents Illustrator from substituting
Courier for missing fonts. Missing fonts are properly reported in
the Distiller log file. It supports Adobe Illustrator versions 7 and
8. It does not modify the behavior of versions 9 or 10. It also
supplements Distiller's built-in support for older versions of
Illustrator.
Quark Custom Blends v1.4
This feature is a set of idioms that replaces the custom color
(spot color) blend code from Quark XPress 3 and 4, and uses
the Smooth Shades patterns and DeviceN color space from
PostScript 3 to represent these graphical constructs in a way
that both produces smoother blends and still retains the custom
colors. Blends with a mixture of spot and process colors are also
supported.
This feature supports QuarkXPress 3.32 and later, including
XPress Passport. It does not replace the Distiller built-in
support for process-to-process blends.
Notes: This feature has the following limitations:
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These smooth shading blends looks "banded" in Acrobat, but that is
only a visual effect of the CMYK to RGB transformation and a visual
effect related to rendering slightly different colors butted together.
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Quark converts "multi-ink" colorants to process colors when a "multi-
ink" colorant is used as an endpoint in a blend. If such a blend is
constructed with one endpoint as a "multi-ink" colorant and the other
endpoint as a spot color, Quark will represent this as a blend from a
process color to a spot color (that is, the "multi-ink" colorant is lost).
FreeHand Blends v1.6
This feature is a set of idioms that reproduces the blends from
the MacroMedia FreeHand software (version 7 and later) using
Smooth Shades and DeviceN color spaces. It avoids the
"convert to process" behavior as well as increases the quality of
blends.
This feature replaces Distiller's built-in support, and allows
Distiller to create composite PDF files with spot color gradients
from FreeHand. Note that this is contrary to the FreeHand
documentation, which states that gradients with spot colors will
be converted to process color. This feature ensures that spot
colors are retained properly.
Notes: This feature has the following limitations:
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Viewing these smooth shading blends in Acrobat looks "banded" but
that is only a visual effect of the CMYK to RGB transformation and a
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