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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Here’s one of those nefarious colour questions ;) <br>I’m using FrameMaker 11, although by the looks of the dialog I’ve got on my screen, these settings haven’t changed since at least Frame 5.5 ;)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><br>I’m doing a doc where the company’s branding guidelines ask for a squiggly line in a particular colour.<br>They’re asking for “Pantone 390C”<br>The interweb tells me the “C” suffix stands for Coated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>So, if I go to View > Colour > Definitions, then Colour Definitions, I can chose “PANTON® Coated” from the list. <br>However, the dialog this brings up is offering colours with a “CVC” suffix. The interweb appears to suggest this means “Computer Video”? Is that not something different? I am confused! Why doesn’t it just say “C” for the suffix?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>In any case: the only reason I’m bothering about this at all is: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>The Branding Guide I’m using also has a suggest CYMK match for the Pantone colour. <br>I can type this in instead, but from reading the FrameMaker documentation, it seems to suggest that if I ask it to put that colour in as a “Spot”, with a named Pantone ink, then it will make its way through like that into whatever PDF I make? <br>And it will then be up to the printer driver on whatever printer prints it to decide the best CYMK match for “Pantone 390C” at print time… which is likely to be a better match then me & Frame guessing here today. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Does this actually work though? Or will Frame still turn the spot-ink named Pantone into an RGB value when distill it to a PDF?<br>(Mind you, if I specify it as a CMYK, it’s almost certainly going to RGB-ify it? Or has Frame11 stopped all that nonsense? I’ve read much wailing and gnashing of teeth about this online….)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Regards,<br></span>David<o:p></o:p></p></div><br clear=all> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE:
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