separations preview - keyboard shortcuts to toggle one channel on and off
At the moment, the separations preview has the ability to toggle ON an individual channel by using a keyboard shortcut e.g. viewing the Cyan channel only can be done by going cmd + opt + shift + 1. Similar shortcuts can be used for the M Y & K channels as well as 5 spot channels, and all 4 process channels at once. However, they only toggle the separation ON. What would be preferable would be the ability to toggle a channel OFF.
Here is a use-case: I'm a finished artist inspecting a magazine layout from my designer. They have used thin tinted black type over coloured areas and these will be an issue later. However to see this I have to - using my mouse - toggle the black eyeball on and off of the black separation to see where the white knockout of this light type would be. A preference would be to have a keyboard shortcut to toggle the visibility of the black channel only on and off, while keeping the other channels visible.
Colin Flashman
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Colin Flashman
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Completely agree. The current keyboard shortcuts for the separations preview are inadequate as they only allow a user to show either
* All colors;
* One specific CMYK color and hide all others; or
* One specific spot color out of 5 to choose from and hide all others.
This isn't how a prepress operator would usually check color separations. A prepress operator would have all colors visible, and then just toggle the particular color on and off. Unfortunately the keyboard shortcuts and the direct javascript invokes only allow:
* Show 1st spot plate
* Show 2nd spot plate
* Show 3rd spot plate
* Show 4th spot plate
* Show 5th spot plate
* Show Black plate
* Show Cyan plate
* Show Magenta plate
* Show Yellow plate
* Show all platesRather than show, it should be toggle, so that with a keyboard shortcut, a user could for example turn a black separation off, then with the same shortcut turn it on again, while all other separations remained visible.
PLEASE FIX THIS :D