Re: Determine whether spot color is RGB or CMYK in Illustrator CS2
Re: Determine whether spot color is RGB or CMYK in Illustrator CS2
- Subject: Re: Determine whether spot color is RGB or CMYK in Illustrator CS2
- From: Wayne Melrose <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 07:54:04 +0200
On 8. mai. 2007, at 23.08, stephan peterson wrote:
Shane,
Thanks for the response. For some reason I didn't get your response
and
had to look it up in the archive.
Anyway, yes, I'm aware that documents are either CMYK or RGB. I'm
already
doing a check to make sure that the documents I'm dealing with are
CMYK
for this workflow. If I open the document in question in
Illustrator CS it
barks about being mixed mode which is great, but CS2 just opens the
document. If it at least barked about the mode I could try and trap
that.
What I'm working on involves taking a Illustrator CS file and
opening it
in CS2 and then eventually saving it out as a PDF. It seems that
CS2 is
missing or doesn't care the document is mixed mode. The system I'm
delivering the PDF to for further processing does care and I need
to kick
these kinds of documents back to the user for them to fix.
As I stated before:
Here's some code to get the properties of a swatch:
tell application "Adobe Illustrator CS2"
get properties of swatch 3 of current document
end tell
Here are the results:
{name:"Template", color:{class:spot color info, tint:100.0,
spot:spot 1 of
document 1 of application "Adobe Illustrator CS2"},
container:document 1
of application "Adobe Illustrator CS2", best type:reference, default
type:reference, class:swatch, index:3}
As you can see it lets you know that it's a spot color, but not which
type. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Stephan
On 5/5/07 6:46 AM, "stephan peterson" <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm trying to determine whether a spot color in an Illustrator
document is
an RGB spot or CMYK spot.
Illustrator documents are all either fully CMYK or fully RGB, so
you can
simple ask or the color space of the document.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
AppleScript Pro Denver, June 2007 <http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>
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Stephen,
What is the output going to? I'm going to assume that RGB is the
problem? If that is the case, could you not just try and get the
script to check for spot colours and convert them to CMYK rather than
spot? Or am I missing the point?
Of course if you have colours that are spot colours pantone or made
spot colours, you should be careful (anyway) about the colour
conversion.
Wayne Melrose
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