<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://393/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">David, define your color as Pantone 390C, specify spot color, and use the CMYK representation as the definition.<div><br></div><div>Arnis may jump in to explain when Windows stopped bolloxing the colors, but with Win7, you should have no problems with the file.</div><div><br></div><div>Doing a Save as PDF, using the Adobe PDF print driver should respect the spot color in the PDF, and if sent to a CMYK device, respect the color you defined in the doc.</div><div><br></div><div>Try all of this and let me know if it doesn't work as promised.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="font-family: arial, helvetica; "><br>-Matt<br></p><div id="sig" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; width: 500px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; ">Matt R. 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"><span style="font-size: 10px; "><br></span></div><div><div>On Jul 29, 2013, at 4:32 AM, "Davis, David" <<a href="mailto:David.Davis@invensys.com">David.Davis@invensys.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Here’s one of those nefarious </span><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px;">color</span></font><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "> questions</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">I’m using FrameMaker 11<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><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><br><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">So, if I go to View > Colour > Definitions, then Colour Definitions, I can chose “PANTON® Coated” from the list.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">However, the dialog this brings up is offering colours with a “CVC” suffix.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">The Branding Guide I’m using also has a suggest CYMK match for the Pantone colour.</span> </div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">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><br><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Regards,<br></span>David<o:p></o:p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div></div></body></html>