Tip of the Week: Seeing Spots
How to get a more accurate preview of spot colors in your InDesign documents.
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Are you working with spot colors? Turn on Overprint Preview (View > Overprint Preview) and keep it on so that what you see onscreen will be closer to what you get from your printer.

This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on February 9, 2016
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