CS4 CS5 Separations Preview

[kaiserwilhelm]

I have a workspace setup where I keep Separations Preview tab open on the left hand side of my 2nd monitor.
The question is - is there a way to keep it ON all the time? I live in Seps preview. I think it is the greatest invention since OS X. I have to click on "Off" to "Separations Preview" on every single CS4 CS5 job. Gets old.

[oxburger]

Not that I can find. I assume they set it to "off" as a default due to the fact that the program runs faster with it "off"

[Magpie]

I have a workspace setup where I keep Separations Preview tab open on the left hand side of my 2nd monitor.
The question is - is there a way to keep it ON all the time? I live in Seps preview. I think it is the greatest invention since OS X. I have to click on "Off" to "Separations Preview" on every single CS4 CS5 job. Gets old.

The secret is that when you open up your document - assuming that you meant InDesign - it is in normal view mode. For separations you need overprint preview. When you turn on your separations it automatically turns on the overprint preview and vice versa. So if you don't want to click just press cmd+alt+shift+Y and you will turn on your separations as well.

I don't think you can make overprint preview to be your default but it wouldn't be a wise thing anyway.

[kaiserwilhelm]

That was good enough for me. I just found the keyboard shortcut and made it F1. Thank you!
Now, to get the script boy to write me a script to hit F1 after it does its other stuff....

[Colorblind]

Our designers have this tendency to disregard separation and overprint preview (which should be on when designing print jobs IMHO) and leave their screen mode to preview (hard to check bleed), so they have that little script that, once saved as an application and placed in the dock, "fixes" all opened InDesign document with one click. Here is the code:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
activate
set dc to 1
set doc_count to (count every document)
repeat doc_count times
tell document dc
tell layout window 1

--next line is to set the screen mode to normal
set screen mode to preview off

--next line is to set separation and overprint preview on
set overprint preview to true
end tell
end tell
set dc to dc + 1
end repeat
end tell