MiWe Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Hi, in Affinity Ddesigner I need an existing Pantone Color to be set to overprint. Any clue how to achive that? Greetings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiWe Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 Got it ... Pantone spot color set to global and afterwards it is possible to define overprint THX for reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiWe Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 Oh no ... Does not work! Export to PDF/X3 or X1 creates a file without any overprint according to Adobe Acrobat ... Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Can't help you, but why are you wanting a Pantone to overprint? Your colour is not going to match the Pantone if you do this when printed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MiWe Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) Thanks for your replies ... @wonderings Pantone is used for a cutting contur, actually not really printed. So the overprint is needed to avoid white space. @Lagarto Yes, this was the I tried to get the overprint working. But preflight in Adobe Acrobat shows that it does not if you got CMYK lying underneath Panntone. Disabling the CMYK colors - like in your screen of Acrobat - leaves white space ... Edited September 25, 2020 by MiWe insert screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thomaso Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 3 hours ago, MiWe said: Disabling the CMYK colors - like in your screen of Acrobat - leaves white space ... Could you upload this sample Affinity page for a closer look? To me spot + overprint appears to work, as PDF 1.7 and PDF/X-4. Here a former test (additionally with blend modes) ... v183 spot overprint 1.7 blend modes_no-rast.pdfv183 spot overprint X4.pdf Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiWe Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 Thanks for your answers ... @Lagarto No, "Simulate Overprinting" is disabled. i attached a new screenshot. @thomaso As i see your PDFs do not use any CMYK colors. I need spot colors to overprint CMYK using PDF/X-1 or PDF/X-3. I attached two files. A Designer file and the corresponding PDF/X-3 output, Additionaly a new screen shot. overprint_spot_color.afdesign overprint_spot_color.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 (...) thomaso 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiWe Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 System Failure in Brain.Exe ... Holy crap, you are absolutely right. Somehow i misunderstood "Simulate overprint". And that after doing this stuff not for the first time ... 🤣 Thanks again lacerto 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 49 minutes ago, MiWe said: As i see your PDFs do not use any CMYK colors. I need spot colors to overprint CMYK Just a note (though you found the solution): The overprint function works with both. You can consider a spot color 'simply' as an additional color channel besides C, M, Y and K. You also can create for instance a CYAN as spot color which is overprinting a not-overprinting PANTONE spot color... Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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