• When you zoom in more than 385% on an image with a clipping path, you will see the entire image, instead of just the clipped image.
• In the Separation Control window, densitometer readouts are wrong when you have unsharp masking setting of "off", the eye icon for viewing USM open, and you pan the image with the hand tool. Closing the USM eye icon solves the problem.
• Live Picture XT does not convert PICT files to IVUE.
• Due to a limitation in the number of vectors QuarkXPress can handle in a clipping path, silhouettes might disappear on-screen past a certain level of zoom or enlargement. Less complex clipping path won't have any problems, more complex clipping paths might not show after a certain zoom factor. The more complex the clipping path, the lower the zoom percentage when this starts happening.
Tips
• Prior to converting images to IVUE, make sure that you have enough spare disk space available. QuarkXPress might crash if not enough space is available. Note that you will not be able to convert images to IVUE if they reside on a CD ROM, because the program cannot write the IVUE file to the same disk.
• Live Picture XT requires QuarkXPress 3.32. You can download free updates from Quark’s web site for version 3.2 and later.
• Do not place an image in QuarkXPress when that image is still open by another program. This might crash QuarkXPress.
• Only bitmapped EPS files can be converted to IVUE. Live Picture XT does not convert vector-based EPS files, such as Illustrator files.
• When you convert images to IVUE, we recommend to keep a backup of the original file, in case there is a failure during the conversion process.
• File conversions to IVUE from files in the Photoshop format might be slower than conversions from other file formats, such as TIFF, EPS or Photo CD. With large files, it might be faster to convert the files first to TIFF or another file format in Photoshop.
Additional Info on Black Generation Values
The Advanced Mode of the Separation Control Dialog reports the minimum and maximum black density (Black Start and Black Limit), and the total maximum ink density (Total Limit). These values are read in the separation table that you have selected for this image, and are not based on readings made in the image itself. In other words, your CMYK separation values will not necessarily reach the table limits as indicated in the density readouts.
To find the exact maximum or minimum values for certain colors or the combined ink coverage, use the densitometer in the specific areas of interest (i.e. highlights and shadows).
With tables generated through Adaptive Separation, these densitometer readouts reflect actual CMYK pixel values that will reproduce close to the same CMYK values that your scan or separation program generated — even though your table might give a higher black density or total ink density maximum.
However, you could reach the maximum black density or total ink density with the actual pixel values when you apply this table to another image that has shadows darker than allowed by the table.
Since the black generation values for adaptive separation are based on tables generated from a CMYK to RGB conversion of an actual image, you will also note that the black generation values in your Separation Control dialog are not the same as the minimum or maximum density values you selected in your separation program when converting the image to CMYK. Again, this should not concern you when applying the adaptive separation table to the same image.
