Is there a way to separate the pantone color from the 4 color using a preflight fix? We are looking to remove the 5th color from a file.
Or does anyone have a creative way of doing this?
Separating CMYK from the Pantone 5th color
2010-05-25 11:48:18
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Acrobat Pro Extended 9.3.1, Macintosh
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.3.1, Macintosh
2010-06-08 00:19:41
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I think saj is asking if there's a way to remove the spot plate objects, leaving behind the CMYK objects (for example to get rid of a pattern that defines varnish or holofilm). In that case, the answer is no, not really.
You can print to separations, thus ending up with five individual files, and then re-assemble the C,M,Y and K plates back into a composite, but Acrobat won't do that last part for you.
There may be a plugin out there, but I don't know of one from memory.
You can print to separations, thus ending up with five individual files, and then re-assemble the C,M,Y and K plates back into a composite, but Acrobat won't do that last part for you.
There may be a plugin out there, but I don't know of one from memory.
If I understand your question correctly, you want to merely remove the individual plate for the pantone color? In a color separated file, you'd already have a separate pantone plate along with the four CMYK plates.
There is indeed a fix. Open the Preflight panel, and select the PDF fixups. The first three fixes all convert the color in your document to CMYK only, converting the pantone spot to an equivalent CMYK and distributing it across the plates. There are three versions, as I mentioned. SWOP is a common choice.
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