Hello Jack,

I hear good things about Cat these days. 
I don't like ink and never have.  Back in the day of 1206's being the smallest part we would radius the outer corners of the significant end.  It is small stuff, but the symmetry helps the wetting.  [If I had my "duthers" I'd durther all my external land corners were radius', but I digress...]   We made the pin 1 of actives longer (both ends of the rectangle pad to aid in design ease and DRC) then solder mask defined to be same as the others.  The land is still clearly visible.  All of this stuff went down the tubes when BGAs and their small neighborhood of passives arrived.  Life then taught us there is no replacement for exact database for pick and place (etal) and very clear assembly drawings.  Getting the very clear assembly drawing is not as easy as one may assume.  It is quite a bit of time and can be prone to error.  I like two drawings... or views... one that only shows the parts that are reflowed, the other view! (or others) show all else.  In the HiRel Military arena a stand alone assembly drawing dedicated to reflow worked rather nicely and it avoided folks creating "their own print."  Nothing like happy people building to print. 
The bottom line... in the micro surface mount part assembly, I would not make any alterations that might impact the quality of the assembly.  I would spend the time on documentation.  Depend on database for volume and print for proto. 

Brad