This Enfocus PitStop command allows us to remove the transparency that the selected objects or pages may have.
It has two options: "Remove the transparency from all (selected) objects" or "Only remove transparency from..." those objects that meet one or more of the following three requirements: that the fill or the stroke overprints and that the colour used is a spot ink.
This last condition is due to the fact that the mixture of transparencies, direct and process inks and overprinting is a cocktail that can easily produce unexpected results, which is why PitStop offers us this option.
We must remember that removing transparency from an object or page is quite different from flattening it, so the will be very different:
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Remove transparency" just changes the blending mode an element uses to relate to other objects and the intensity (percentage) of this relationship, regardless of the change in visual appearance. It Does not changes or slices it (which is usually what the transparency flattener does). - Transparency flattening tries to maintain visual appearance, no matter how objects are altered to achieve that goal.
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