Color wrestling

[Steve Rickaby]

I hope there is some color expert out that who can help me with this.

In a book that uses black and one spot color, a Pantone, and which should print as a 2-color process:

. An image, not created here, that is spot colored, is coming through in PDF or FrameMaker as having some CMYK content (possibly the shading).

. FrameMaker and Illustrator use different names for the same Pantone, in Illustrator's case, 201U, and in FrameMaker's case, 201CVU. FrameMaker treats these as two separate colors. I can find no common definition of this Pantone in any of the two application's libraries.

My local print shop tell me that these sorts of things cannot be overridden in a pre-press PDF.

Has anyone had to handle hassles like this? Is there a way to tell FrameMaker to consider the two colors to be the same thing? Is there a PDF tool that can hit these problems with some sort of big hammer?

-- 
Steve