I have about 300 unique PDF's all defined in spot colors. The issue is that they're from the Uncoated Pantone swatch book but I need them listed as the Coated Pantone color. Is there an easy way to convert these? Hopefully automatically but if I have to do it manually what would be the fastest way. I have access to the full suite of Adobe products (Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, etc).
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capt,
Thanks for the reply and normally it would be fine.
In this instance the PDF is being ripped by a digital press which cares whether its marked as coated or uncoated. If marked as coated it can simulate a coated finish on an uncoated paper. It's a neat effect when reversed text with the coated ink look.
I see. So you are using uc paper and you like to specify the coated for effect.
It is simple to convert these in Acrobat Pro using Advanced>Print Production>Convert Colours. However I don't think you can batch process this, at least not in an obvious ready made way.
I cannot see an option for this in Distiller either, only for CMYK not for Spot.
I am thinking out loud here, but as this is a digital press it will not use spot ink anyway but likely converts the spot to CMYK in the rip. It may be worth asking your printer that question. If so you could batch print these to Adobe PDF using High Quailty press settings with convert to CMYK coated.
This may have a drawback if the rip uses some trickery to make spot colours more vibrant as the CMYK will be duller...
not sure whether this helps you but maybe a nudge in the right direction.
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by: captainreissPosted on 2009-10-30 at 07:19:01ID: 25703166
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I am not sure whether you need to. The spot colour books only illustrate how a PANTONE colour will look on the respective paper. Either coated (glossy/silk) paper or uncoated (matt) paper.
The color separated PDF will specify the values for the inks, but unlike CMYK you don't build these up as a process, you instead pick the inks for the press. So in essence you only need to specify the paper as coated and that the should use the colour values as such as they are.
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