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<p>Hi Ed,</p>
<p>probably your colors are set to automatically separate to CMYK in Illustrator:</p>
<p>If you use a pantone library, all colors here are by default defined as CMYK-separating colors, although a pantone value is displayed in the color window...</p>
<p>=> Set the two colors to "spotcolor" in the color options (swatch options). A small dot will then be visible in each color (in the swatches palette for the document).</p>
<p>After this, when producing a PDF, set the output option to "no color conversion".</p>
<p>The pantone colors will then have their own plates in the pdf as spot colors.</p>
<p>Pls see also:</p>
<p>--> http://karafintechteam.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/5/3/7853240/spot_color_and_adobe_illustrator.pdf</p>
<p>Best regards</p>
<p>Tino H. Haida, Berlin</p>
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<p>Ed Nodland:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">This seems like it should be simple and done routinely by many others.
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<div>I have an image of a flammable substance label. It has a pantone red, a pantone yellow, and black. I want to use the image in a Framemaker document that will be sent for commercial printing using "Spot Color" not process printing. How can I accomplish this?</div>
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<div>The image is an Illustrator file. I save the file to PDF, load it into Frame 10, save the Frame file as PDF, open in acrobat pro and use Advanced > Print Production > Output Preview to see that the image is a mix of CMYK not my spot pantone colors.</div>
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<div>I also suspect that the image saved from Illustrator as a PDF format should display the spot colors but it does not. So the problem/solution might start there. </div>
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