View overprint in adobe reader

Clicking on the eye icon will turn individual layers on or off. This feature is not meant to check colour separations. Checking seps should be done ONLY with all layers on, just as the file would be used for production.

Otherwise, there is a reasonable chance that an element on a turned-off layer that will interact with the rest of the art in the document when the going to press will not be noticed. Close Menu Get In Touch. Tags Acrobat , prepress , printing. If the document being linked to is already open in another window, the current document is not closed when you click a link to the open document. If you do not select this option, a new window opens each time you click a link to a different document.

Always use filename as document title: Allows you to use the filename as the document title. Not selected by default. Hidden Information. Redaction Adjust Filename When Saving Applied Redaction Marks: Specifies a prefix or suffix to use when saving a file to which redaction marks have been applied. For example, if you installed both the English and German versions, then you can choose either language for the patterns. The Patterns option appears in the Search and Redaction dialog boxes.

Full Screen preferences. Which Monitor To Use: Specifies the monitor on which full-screen display appears for users with multiple-monitor configurations.

Show Navigation Bar: Shows a minimal navigation toolbar regardless of the document settings. You can also page through a document by pressing Return, Shift-Return to go backward , or the arrow keys. This option is typically used for setting up kiosk displays. You can page through a document using the mouse or keyboard commands even if automatic paging is selected.

You can select a color from the color palette to customize the background color. Mouse Cursor: Specifies whether to show or hide the pointer when Full-Screen mode is in operation. Default Transition : Specifies the transition effect to display when you switch pages in Full-Screen mode and no transition effect has been set for the document.

Direction: Determines the flow of the selected default transition on the screen, such as Down, Left, Horizontal, and so on. The available options vary according to the transition. If no directional options affect the selected default transition, this option is not available. Available only for transitions with directional options. General preferences. This option is deselected by default.

Upon the first click, the article zooms to fill the document pane horizontally; subsequent clicks follow the thread of the article.

Show Quick actions on text selection: Display a quick action toolbar on text or image selection. You can also snap or pull out tabs as individual windows. To do this, select a tab and drag the thumbnail that appears away from the toolbar, and then release the tab. Touch Mode: Sets how Acrobat enters the Touch mode, if at all, for touch enabled devices. In Touch mode, Toolbar buttons, panels, and menus shift apart slightly to accommodate selecting with your fingers.

Scale for screen resolution restart required : Auto-detect screen resolution and scale the PDF for viewing, or display the PDF as it is irrespective of the screen resolution. Warnings Do Not Show Edit Warnings: Disables warning boxes that would normally appear when you delete items such as links, pages, page thumbnails, and bookmarks. Reset All Warnings: Restores default settings for warnings. Click a message to get information about features, updates, or online services, or to open an element in the application, such as a task pane.

Deselect the option to prevent in-product marketing messages from appearing. Transactional messages, which facilitate the Adobe Online Service, cannot be turned off. Check 2D Graphics Accelerator Windows only : Appears only if your computer hardware supports 2D graphics acceleration.

When selected, allows hardware acceleration usage when the first document is opened. When deselected, hardware acceleration usage starts after the first document is opened.

This option can slow startup time, so it is deselected by default. This setting applies if you have both Acrobat and Reader installed on your computer. In Windows 7 or earlier, a browser uses this setting only if it is using the Adobe plug-in or add-on for viewing PDF files.

In Windows 8, this setting controls which application is the default PDF application for your system, including in your browser. Windows 8 prompts you to allow this change before applying it to your system. Once set, Windows 8 also uses the selected PDF application for tasks related to PDF files, such as previewing, displaying thumbnails, and providing file information. Page Display preferences.

The default setting is Automatic. Zoom : Sets the magnification level for PDF documents when they are first opened. Resolution Use System Setting: Uses the system settings for monitor resolution.

Custom Resolution: Sets the monitor resolution. Rendering Smooth Text: Specifies the type of text-smoothing to apply. Smooth Line Art: Applies smoothing to remove abrupt angles in lines. Smooth Images : Applies smoothing to minimize abrupt changes in images.

Use Local Fonts: Specifies whether the application uses or ignores local fonts installed on your system. When deselected, substitute fonts are used for any font not embedded in the PDF. If a font cannot be substituted, the text appears as bullets and an error message appears. Enhance Thin Lines: When selected, clarifies thin lines in the display to make them more visible. Use Page Cache : Places the next page in a buffer before the current page is viewed to reduce the time required to page through a document.

Speeds up zooming, scrolling, and redrawing of page content, and speeds the rendering and manipulation of 2D PDF content. This option is selected by default.

If your system is slow to display image-intensive pages, deselect this option. Use Smooth Zooming Windows only : When deselected, turns off animation effects, which improves performance. Show Transparency Grid: Displays the grid behind transparent objects. A page number, followed by the page position in parentheses, appears in the Page Navigation toolbar and in the Go To Page and Print dialog boxes.

For example, i 1 of 1 if the printed number of the first page is i. If this option is not selected, pages are numbered with Arabic numbers starting at 1. Selecting this option helps prevent unexpected behavior when clicking Back or Go Back in your web browser. When set to Automatic, if a document contains overprints, then Overprint Preview mode is activated. The Overprint Preview mode lets you see onscreen the effects of ink aliasing in the printed output.

For example, a printer or service provider could create an ink alias if a document contains two similar spot colors and only one is required.