Spectrolite Integration

Spectrolite is a free Mac or Windows app that helps do color separation and other things to more easily make colorful risograph prints. Because Spectrolite is also made by ANEMONE, the people who make Layout Department, we’re adding some special features to make them work well together.

Printer’s marks and color separation

If you include printer’s marks (like center marks) in the PDF you make with this layout app, then put the file in to Spectrolite to for color separation, Spectrolite detects that marks came from this layout app and put the marks on the appropriate color layer(s).

Send to Spectrolite

(This feature is Mac-only, for now, but we plan to add it to the Windows Spectrolite app in the future.)

If you have both Spectrolite and Layout Department on your computer, you will see a Spectrolite button in the top left corner, near the Export button. Press the button to move your layout directly over to Spectrolite (the app will open if needed) so you can do color separation and otherwise prep your files to risograph print.

If you don’t see a Spectrolite button, make sure you have the latest version of Spectrolite downloaded, and then restart Layout Department.

You can also Export your layouts to PDF and then load them into Spectrolite for color separation later — the Send to Spectrolite feature is just for convenience.