Pantone value for custom spot colors

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• The CMYK values for the PMS colors in file are spread in final PDF.

  Customer provides us with a photoshop PDF, in which CMYK for a PMS color values are spread (in the case of PMS 633). Client creates files in indesign, save to PDF and then open the PDF Id file in photoshop and re - save as a photoshop PDF.

  Somehow, the color values are getting biased; 96 6/10/29/77.64/27.3/17.41/0, obviously enough to change the appearance of the color and the client refuses the job.

  Any suggestions?

  And Yes, I have noted the measures they take are not recommended, but I have no reason as to why.

  Values of PMS in InDesign are not actually stored as LAB, CMYK values. If the creation of PDF from InDesign and forcing in the process and all tasks the process CMYK, then you get the CMYK values depend on the color space designated for PDF output. Then you have a similar question rasterize PDF file in Photoshop. The CMYK values may change depending on the involved color spaces.

  In both cases, as described in Bob, this is a strongly discouraged workflow. Frankly, you perform additional measures that I guaranteed to degrade the quality and are a source of multiple, probably unexpected CMYK color conversions => C am 'Y' K'.   Ugghh!

  And Yes, we highly recommend the PDF/X-4 without any conversion of color directly exported from InDesign.

  And finally, to use spot colors for print streams where it didn't intend to use additional pigments is just looking for trouble. You can use the definitions of Pantone colors, but at least use the Pantone Process definitions, not spot colors in color!

  -Dov

• Adding custom spot colors

  Hi all

  I am in desperate need of aid. I think the answer to my question is relatively simple, but I don't have a lot of experience in scripting.

  I am trying to create a script that adds color to support custom swatch palette. I managed to set up something that works (I've adapted an existing script), but the added colors aren't tasks, some shades of color CMYK.

  Also, I need the script no error if the shade already exists. I spent days pulling my hair out trying to get this to work, any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Add custom samples

  var app.activeDocument = docRef;

  function cmykColor (c, m, y, k) {}

  var newCMYK = new CMYKColor();

  newCMYK.cyan = c;

  newCMYK.magenta = m;

  newCMYK.yellow = y;

  newCMYK.black = k;

  Return newCMYK;

  }

  with (docRef) {}

  var a = cmykColor (30, 30, 0, 0);

  makeSwatch (docRef, 'Polish', a);

  var a = cmykColor (30, 0, 30, 0);

  makeSwatch (docRef, 'White Spot', a);

  var a = cmykColor (100, 0, 0, 0);

  makeSwatch (docRef, 'Profile', a);

  var a = cmykColor (0, 0, 0, 75);

  makeSwatch (docRef, 'Cut', a);

  var a = cmykColor (37, 0, 15, 0);

  makeSwatch (a docRef, 'Fold',);

  var a = cmykColor (30, 30, 0, 0);

  makeSwatch (docRef, 'Perf', a);

  var a = cmykColor (20, 0, 0, 0);

  makeSwatch (docRef, 'TECH - clear zone', a);

  var a = cmykColor (30, 0, 0, 30);

  makeSwatch (docRef, 'TECH - free text', a);

  var a = cmykColor (0, 0, 0, 50);

  makeSwatch (docRef, "TECH - Bleed", a);

  var a = cmykColor (7, 20, 0, 10);

  makeSwatch (docRef "TECH - text box", a);

  }

  function makeSwatch (doc, swName, swCol) {}

  If (! inCollection (doc.swatches, swName)) {}

  var thisSwatch = doc.swatches.add ();

  thisSwatch.name = swName;

  thisSwatch.color = swCol;

  Return thisSwatch;

  } else {}

  Return doc.swatches.getByName (swName);

  }

  }

  function inCollection (collection, "stringname") {}

  are var = false;

  for (var i = 0; i < collection.length; i ++) {}

  If (collection [i] .name == "stringname") {}

  There = true;

  }

  }

  return exists;

  }

  Hello and welcome.

  Try this:

  var docRef = app.activeDocument;
  
  var a = cmykColor(0, 0, 0, 50);
  makeSwatch( 'TECH - Bleed', a);
  
  a = cmykColor(30, 30, 0, 0);
  makeSwatch( 'Perf', a);
  
  a = cmykColor(20, 0, 0, 0);
  makeSwatch( 'TECH - Clear Area', a);
  
  function makeSwatch( swName, swCol) {
      if (!inCollection(docRef.swatches, swName)) {
      var aSwatch = docRef.spots.add();
      aSwatch.name = swName;
      aSwatch.color = swCol;
      aSwatch.tint = 100;
      aSwatch.colorType = ColorModel.SPOT;
      var aSwatchSpot = new SpotColor();
      aSwatchSpot.spot = aSwatch;
      return aSwatchSpot;
      }else{
          return docRef.swatches.getByName(swName);
          }
      }
  
  function inCollection(collection, nameString) {
      var exists = false;
      for (var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
          if (collection[i].name == nameString) {
              exists = true;
              }
          }
          return exists;
          }
  
  function cmykColor(c, m, y, k) {
      var newCMYK = new CMYKColor();
      newCMYK.cyan = c;
      newCMYK.magenta = m;
      newCMYK.yellow = y;
      newCMYK.black = k;
      return newCMYK;
      }
  

  Is this good for you?

• Opacity value of value of hue change spot color

  Does anyone know a script to change all spot color objects that have an opacity value of the corresponding value of the color of the spot color? Could also be to treat the colors, global or not - but the key is to work.

  
  

  If an object uses a spot color that is to say 13% opacity, then it must be on opacity 100% and the value of 13% spot color tint. If an object has been 75% opacity, then it must be set to the hue of 75% to 100% opacity etc. Throughout the tonal range for all objects.

  
  

  It would be nice if the blending mode of the spot color has been set to normal if it was something else (obscure, product etc.). I guess it would be great if there was an option to set the object for a collection if the blending mode used was darken or multiply, but this is the icing on the cake. Essence is the opacity value of spot object of the value of spot color mapping and setting the opacity to 100%.
  

  
  

  I would have thought it would be a problem quite common in packaging prepress, however I had no success in the search for such a script.

  Here's a more complete script.

  delivered in a function of maintaining the overall space.

  and should be in RGB, CMYK and Spot colors.

  I would like to know if you find it does unexpected things...

  function RemoveOpacity(){
      // to work on selected items only set to SEL
      // to work on whole document set to ALL
      var work_on = "SEL";
      //---------------------------------------------------------
      var doc = app.activeDocument;
      if(work_on === 'SEL'){
          var items = doc.selection;
      }else if(work_on === 'ALL'){
          var items = doc.pathItems;
      }else{
          alert('the "work_on" variable is not set correctly');
          return;
      }
      for(var i = 0; i		   

• Please, do I have with the help of Javascript can change the values of tones? for example my color of nail POLISH with c: 0, m:10, y: 15, k: 0 to change to c: 0, m:0, y: 0, k: 0? Thank you

  Please, I beg you, with the help of Javascript change the values of specific spot color? for example, I have the color called VARNISH with c values: 0, m:10, y: 15 k: 0 and it would help me to change to c: 0, m:0, y: 0, k: 0, in an action. Is this possible? Thank you

  Hello Kon Verter,

  You can change the values in your sample of spot, but you need to check a lot of things before.

  for example, you can do something like this:

  var Vcolor = app.activeDocument.swatches.getByName("Varnish");
  if (Vcolor.color.spot.colorType == ColorModel.SPOT && Vcolor.color.spot.spotKind == SpotColorKind.SPOTCMYK) {
      alert("Black value before: "+Vcolor.color.spot.color.black);
      Vcolor.color.spot.color.black= 0; // and so on
      alert("Black value after: "+Vcolor.color.spot.color.black);
      }
  

  This will change the black value of the task of CMYK color with name Nail Polish 0

  Have fun

• Spot color gradient

  I have what seems to be a design element front right I don't know how to do this in InDesign.

  I need to make a gradient in InDesign using a spot color. It starts at 50% of the color, go 10% color and 50%. Whenever I try to make the gradient, my only choice for the spot color is 100% of the color. If I try to make a new shade of the same color, but a different screen, InDesign doesen't seem to him allow.

  How can I add a spot color percentages to gradients?

  Select the Gunn swatch in the swatches Panel and in the flyout, select new tint swatch. Make samples for each color value you need, you can use those.

• Find the spot colors in the document

  I prepare a document for printing, and when I go to the package for output I get a message that there are a handful of spot colors in addition to the CMYK. Is it possible I can get InDesign to show me where in my document these tones are? (There are many graphics placed in many pages) I can't seem to find a 'show' or 'page number' for these colors. In addition, if the CMYK symbol appears to the right of the point of color in the Panel swatched, am I good as went to press?

  Maybe the satest to see where the spot colors are in use is to open the Activ separations and separations Preview Panel, and then click the eyeball next to CMYK. Everything left on the page is your direct. If you do not see a spot color in the Panel, there are none in use.

  You asked if it was safe to go to print with stains, and the answer is that it depends. Are paying you extra for the spot colors? If this isn't the case, Swatches Panel flyout menu choose Manager of inks, then check the box to convert all Spots to process and for the best conversion to any known color space, check the box to use the Lab values as well. Don't know what you mean by seeing the CMYK symbol to the right of the swatch - which means that it is not RGB, but there are two small icons there and the one on the left will tell you if the color is spot on, but neither one will tell you if it is transposed to the process in the ink Manager.

• PANTONE + does not match the previous Pantone spot color chart. I have several customers who are using spot colors in logos etc and now these colors are a mess. Can I get and use the old color for Illustrator books?

  PANTONE + does not match the previous Pantone spot color chart. I have several customers who are using spot colors in logos etc and now these colors are a mess. Can I get and use the old color for Illustrator books?

  Well, the spot color has not changed, but the way they were simulated four-color changed, they now use color management to get to the nearest ink possible task.

  Here is some info:

  https://helpx.Adobe.com/Illustrator/KB/PANTONE-plus.html

• What is the difference between the PANTONE and spot colors

  I need help understanding a concept. In Illustrator, when I double click a nuance I get shade options. In this example, let's say it's one of the default witnesses. When I change the type of color in "Tones" and click OK, I've created a spot color, Yes? Nuance now has the white border with the triangle in the corner indicating. When I send to a printer they tell me that they need a pantone. I was under the impression that a printer would ink custom of my place and that would be printed as a color. Isn't this true? If spot colors must be Pantone, why the color type drop-down open PANTONE books?

  Can someone please explain what a spot color in Illustrator?

  Thank you

  You cannot arbitrarily mix most of the inks in the real world, and so any custom mix formula is mostly meaningless. It is largely the point here.

  (a) it is much easier for main stores order just the premixed colors

  (b) if they mix custom colors, they still need to use specific base inks which are not only CMYK, since there is no way to obtain certain colors in other

  (c) only using correct formulae can ensure the appropriate density / saturation / brightness

  (d) you need to check against a reference color book / strip

  (e) simple chemical and physical factors prevent some mixes of color work

  This might be explained away constantly, but suffice it to say that, in all my years, I have not met a single printing could have mixed colors custom outside Pantone or here in Germany HKS and other systems. Not to say that it is impossible for some colors, but nobody does anymore.

  Mylenium

• How can I get a CMYK or Gray scale halftone and replace it with a spot color with the same value of midtones?

  Is it possible that I can select an object or objects that have a value of mixed CMYK or Grayscale, and then select a Spot color and it will keep the same value of midtones as before?

  For example, I have an object that is C: 0 M: 0 Y: 0 k: 20 and I select Reflex Blue. What is happening is it change my object to 100% Reflex Blue. Is there a way to change to automaitically Reflex Blue 20%?

  Another example, I have 3 objects, one is 20 k: the second is 40 k: and the third is KC: 85. I want to select all the objects in three at the same time, select Yellow PANTONE and get them to change yellow PANTONE 20, 40 yellow PANTONE and PANTONE yellow 85.

  Is there a way to do it or I will always have to manually edit each element?

  Thanks for the help.

  Select the elements to recolor

  Edit > edit colors > redefine > follow my screenshots

  

  I love clicking this button under the entitlement, one place for everything that you color reduction settings.

  

  Use tinted scale. Exact will give you 100% of the color. The exact word is confusing here, this means that the color of the destination (100% of everything that the color you choose), not a version tinged scale.

  

  Unfortunately I do not know how to get the exact values of blacks to convert the exact values of spot color. Scale of hues will you get you get you close enough for what you need. In my example that a black 89% converts a 84% of the place, so no exact but alteast I have a range of shades, and sometimes the results are better than accurate, depends on your art.

  Here are my before and after.

  

• You can convert CMYK values in corresponding PMS spot color?

  Our printing process requires us to print using spot colors. We often get some work

  with colors in CMYK values. CS4 allows you somehow convert this CMYK color of the

  PMS spot color correspondents. Or should we look for a plug-in? Any ideas would be most

  appreciated. Use us Pantone solid to process guide but would like something a lot faster.

  Us they ask customers to provide graphics in a spot color but as the train of the world. Thank you.

  Edit > dialogue redefine is made for this task. You will need to check the help files. Dialog box complex with extraordinary power. Manage your task in minutes.

• Printing process requires that I use a spot color for black. Recolor work percentages changes.

  Illustrator CS6 (other users on 5)

  Mac OS 10.6

  

  I need go of tones of K and K to a task of color and tones of a spot color.

  I use Recolor work because I can't merge into K. The art comes our customers K so we cannot conceive just differently.

  Edit: for clairification. The rectangles on the right are tones of k and k. Rectangles on the left are results after its conversion to a spot color with illustrations to redefine colors. I'm honestly not married to the idea of using Recolor art. I just need a way to move with precision k tones to a place.

  Here you go, the script targets only the PathItems with the default black CMYK [0,0,0, value], locked or hidden objects will be ignored, as well as objects in locked or hidden layers.

  // script.name = cmykBlackToSpotBlack.jsx;
  // script.description = changes art color from standard CMYK Black to an EXISTING Spot swatch named "spot black";
  // script.requirements = an opened document;
  // script.parent = CarlosCanto // 08/07/13;
  // script.elegant = false;
  
  // reference http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1267562?tstart=0
  
  // Note: color values get rounded to the nearest integer, to avoid values like black = 99.99999999999999
  //            Hidden and/or Locked Objects will be ignored, as well as objects in Hidden and/or Locked Layers
  
  #target Illustrator
  
  var idoc = app.activeDocument;
  var pi = idoc.pathItems;
  var sw = idoc.swatches["spot black"];
  var fcounter = 0;
  var scounter = 0;
  
  for (j=0; j		   

• Need help with spot colors PMS Pantone

  I'm building a document in Illustrator CS6 using CMYK color. I need to add, and in some cases, substitute and identify the correct most closely matched PMS Pantone spot colors but don't see even the PMS library represented in Illustrator. Can anyone help me find Pantone swatches, or is it an add-on for the program Illustrator?

  Thank you

  Ken

  Hello Ken,

  Window > swatches.

  Then, in the window of color chart: Open Library of Swatch, color books, solid coated Pantone (more current book)

  The Canada Gazette

• When you create a PDF from a scanner, is there a way to set the default value for the size of 8.5 x 11 letter custom every time I make a PDF from a scanner?

  When you create a PDF from a scanner, is there a way to set the default value for the size of 8.5 x 11 letter custom every time I make a PDF from a scanner?

  Hi kevin7frg,

  You can go to "file > create > scanner > configure presets PDF»

  The dialog box that appears, you can choose 8.5 X 11 as the default width and height of PDF pages to scan.

  

  Hope that helps.

  Kind regards

  Ana Maria

• Is there a default value for the color management in PSE10? Beautiful photos from iPhoto, but blur with elements. I need help with this before as I consider that the upgrade to PSE13 and beyond.

  Is there a default value for the color management in PSE10? Beautiful photos from iPhoto, but blur with elements. I need help with this before as I consider that the upgrade to PSE13 and beyond.

  Printing which forms an angle seems ok, but one that is horizontally seems faded, incomplete.

  I was wondering if I saved a layer somewhere and set it as a default value.

  If you group the layers, you will be left with a single layer, thus spreading your concern.

  Suggest that you do the following:

  1. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your printers
  2. Reset the default preferences.

  Hold the Alt, Ctrl + Shift keys when you click the icon to open the items. When asked if you want to delete the settings file, say Yes.

  Items nearby and let regenerate the file.