To ensure that this Fixup produces the desired result, following prerequisites must be met:

• A Spot Color or Technical Coloris is used in the print file.
• A Line is colored using a Spot Color.

Figure 1: Set Line Width for selected Spot Color Fixup dialog

To set the Line Width for Spot Colors, the following options are available:

• Templates [1] – settings selected in the dialog can be saved as a Template and applied to other Articles/Print Items. They can also be used within Fixup Chains as well as in the Fixups Apply Fixups, Check Print Item and Apply Fixups and Production Configurations including Apply Fixup Operation.
• Spot Color Option [2] – from the dropdown menu select how the desired Spot Color(s) should be defined. Following options are available:
  • Select Spot Color from the list – select the desired Spot Color from the Spot Color dropdown menu [3]. All system-wide defined Spot and Technical Colors are available.
  • Identify Spot Colors with RegEx – enter the desired Regular Expressions (RegEx) in the Spot Colors (RegEx) input field [3] to identify the Spot Color.
  • Select Spot Colors from List or via RegEx – select the desired Spot Color from the Spot Color dropdown menu [3] and then enter the required RegEx expression in the input field.
  • Variable Content [7] – select the desired placeholder – database field or user-defined field – from which the value for the Spot Color selection should be retrieved. The following values must be present in the selected field to enable the selection:
    • List
    • RegEx
    • List_RegEx
• Apply [4] – from the dropdown menu select whether the Fixup should be applied to all Line Widths or only to specific Line Widths. The following options are available:
  • Apply to all Line Widths – all Line Widths of the selected Spot Colors are increased by the defined value.
  • Line Width is less than – only Line Widths that are smaller than the value specified in the option Min. Line Width are increased by the defined value. Note that the option Min. Line Width is only available when this option is selected.
  • Variable Content [8] – select the desired placeholder – database field or user-defined field – from which the value for the application method should be retrieved. The following values must be present in the selected field to enable the selection:
    • Always
    • Less
• Min. Line Width [5] – enter the Min. Line Width from which a Line Width should be increased by the defined value. Note that this option is only available if Line Width is less than is selected as the application method. For Variable Content [9], select the desired placeholder – database field or user-defined field – from which the value for the Min. Line Width should be retrieved.
• Set Line Width to [6] – enter the desired value to which the selected Line Width should be increased. Note that the resulting Line Width will match the value entered here. Example: if a value of 1 pt is entered, the Line Width will be increased to 1 pt. If the original Line Width is 0,6 pt, it will have a Line Width of 1 pt after applying the Fixup. For Variable Content [10], select the desired placeholder – database field or user-defined field – from which the value for the Line Width should be retrieved.

Figure 2: Left: Information on Expected Values for the Option Spot Color Options; Right: Information on Expected Values for the Option Apply

To experiment with this function, you can use this sample file "Sample_Set Stroke Width.pdf". The file contains a "Dieline" Technical Color, with Line Width of 0,2 pt. This Line Width is to be increased to 2 pt.

After applying the Fixup "Sample_Set Stroke Width_End.pdf" file is created, with Line Width of the Technical Color "Dieline" set to 2 pt. The values from Figure 1 were used for this purpose.

Figure 3: Left: Original file; Right: Revised file in which the Line Width has been set to 2 pt