

You can power clip them around objects or edit with the shape tool and get really successful simulations. Still overlapping them is not always successful but it is worth a try. Do not use drop shadows, simulate them with blends or separate them from the object, and recolor them as spot colors in Photo Paint. If there is an offending color, you haven't gotten so far into it to have trouble with finding it.ĭo not use transparency, simulate transparency. I don't care how nice the white seems on screen, use the spot color 0% and while designing in spot color, check at least every half an hour in your separations print preview. Often times the reason for spot color problems lies in the color white, which in spot color should be 0% of your color on the spot color slider. Don't ask me why this makes a difference, but it does. It will show CYMK however if there are 0% in those colors, and all is in spot as you say, you should be alright.īe sure you only use one Spot color palette and fill your colors from the Docker rollup and not from the palette you can open and dock to the right of your screen.
SPOT COLOR SEPARATION ILLUSTRATOR PDF PDF
pdf and go to the Advanced tab and see you color separations.

pdf correctly is essential, when you use Acrobat Distiller from inside of CorelDRAW you have all the controls to access and less can go wrong. Often times there is one offending element when spot color will separate into CYMK.
SPOT COLOR SEPARATION ILLUSTRATOR PDF PROFESSIONAL
I used it at work, I work for a professional printer. I recommend the latest Acrobat Reader Professional. I could do a work around (eg do my spot as one of the process colours) but would prefer not to. I have been looking this up on the net and see that duotones are renowned for creating these problems. eps file rather than leave CorelDRAW to do it? If so is there a specific version of this that I need? Should I purchase Acrobat Distiller and distil my. Secondly, there are two duotones (done as monochromes with the second spot colour) also convert to process.ĭo I need to adjust any settings in the section where I create the. pdf" (Version 11) I get two problems:įirstly, a fountain fill created in a spot colour turns into a CYMK image(yes, I checked that this was done correctly in the first place as it separates OK and gives me laser proofs) However when I use Coreldraw to "Publish to. eps file then import it into a new file, it also separates OK. They separate fine on my computer into two laser proofs. Now my printer wants me to send the files direct to him as a. eps files which I sent to a bureau who made films for the printer. I have newly joined this forum but have been a CoreDRAW user for some time (Versions 3,5,8,11!)
