saraalonso Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Hello everybody, I have designed a logo in Affinity, chosen PANTONE colours and exported the file into PDF. My client is having troubles with it as he says printers are opening the file in CMYK, PANTONE colour don't exist anymore. What am I doing wrong? How can I export or save my file for a final art for printers? Thanks for your help. commaimagination 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterkaosa Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Hello, can you specify? Designer or Photo? Which preset do you chose for export? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rita Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Hello, can you specify? Designer or Photo? Which preset do you chose for export? Hello I have the same problem. AD - I make a file with pantone colour, then export to PDF, then I open it again and the colours are CMYK I tried PDF for print preset, with "Honour pantone" on and other pdf presets any other way? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Are you sure the Pantone colour you picked was a spot colour and not a process colour? Process Pantone colours export as CMYK; only spot colours export as spot. That is why the export option is Honour spot colours, not Honour Pantone colours. Spot colours will have the word "Spot" in the Colour tab, and their icon will have a dot in the Swatches tab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
commaimagination Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 On 3/9/2016 at 5:08 AM, saraalonso said: Hello everybody, I have designed a logo in Affinity, chosen PANTONE colours and exported the file into PDF. My client is having troubles with it as he says printers are opening the file in CMYK, PANTONE colour don't exist anymore. What am I doing wrong? How can I export or save my file for a final art for printers? Thanks for your help. If you want the Pantone to follow into PDF you have to USE PANTONE FORMULA GUIDE because they are spot. PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE are not spot. I wish I could export EPS with Pantone like a professional! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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