Paul Mc Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Hi everyone, I've inherited a job where the source file contains a mixture of colours and I have to target a dry offset printing process which requires that I supply a PDF with 8 spot colours (no process colours). I've manually "quantised" the palette down to six (global colours) that will be used (2 are needed for white overprint and varnish). I'm now trying to convert the final six to spot colours. I realise that in an ideal world there would be a checkable menu item to select spot on the right-click edit menu for the palette entry alongside Overprint but that's not there. What's the most efficient way to get a design of several thousand objects into a press-ready state? My current thinking is to create a new document palette, duplicate the current palette with the equivalent spot colours, systematically work through the design layers and groups selecting things of the same colour and reassigning them to the spot colours. Is this the most efficient way to do it? Also, when I'm done, is there any way to tell if I've converted all the original global coloured items to their spot coloured equivalents, as a check? If I've got this all wrong then please let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 (...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mc Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 Thanks for confirming @Lagarto that is what I suspected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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