Pantone bug?

[Steve Rickaby]

Hi Brad

At 22:44 -0500 27/7/07, Brad Anderson wrote:
>We've printed several 5-color books (CMYK and 1 spot) with several different vendors in the US, China, and Hong Kong. ...

Many thanks for this clarification. I think we were iterating towards this conclusion, but it's good to have confirmation. Actually, I ran up against this issues with a previous book, but in that case the difference between the FrameMaker version of the spot color and its real color was less great.

>You can set black to be a spot color as well in Frame so that the black will be a 100% spot black and not an accidentally "rich black" which would give you possible CMK values.

That's the fix I was trying to remember ;-)

As a footnote, there are some new tools in Acrobat 8 for fixing up plates at pre-press, something to do with color aliasing, but I only looked at the demo and it's now expired. I guess they could provide a backstop if all else failed, such as for example a mix of a Pantone CVU and a Pantone U of the same shade in a PDF.

-- 
Steve