Mac color separations dialog problem

When I have more than 8 colors to separate in the print/output dialog on the mac I cannot easily apply the frequency and screen angles for those I have to scroll to access, the color dialog just jumps around.  I have to fight to get to the parameters for those I have to scroll to get to.  I thought they would have a fix for this, so I patiently waited for an update till now.  Sorry for the rant.

Here is the work around!
Print the file to a .ps and run it directly through Distiller  you will need to give Distiller your password.
That suggest to me that the problem is that distiller needs to pass word in order to save the file anywhere and not be able to do so without the password it just sends it back to the system after completing the distilling when you try to print to pdf.
Here is two of the four pages I got from my experiment
Not ideal work flow when you are doing a lot of them but much the same we are all use to doing it in the past.
Most important it is a way.

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