Re: Can't get the color with Illustrator
Re: Can't get the color with Illustrator
- Subject: Re: Can't get the color with Illustrator
- From: David Creamer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:51:18 -0700
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I'm not even sure how one would do this. It's possible define a spot
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color in an RGB document and then convert the spot color into RGB, and
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then convert the document to CMYK. But how do you convert the spot
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color to CMYK in an RGB document?
Make an RGB document,
Open the Pantone solid library,
Apply a color to an object,.
Convert the color to CMYK via the Color palette,
Then, convert the document to CMYK, and repeat the above on another object.
The CMYK specs will be different.
You can spec CMYK colors in a RGB document, and RGB colors in an CMYK
document. I realize that converting the color to CMYK in an RGB document
does not REALLY make it a true CMYK color--but you can SELECT your colors
that way. I was just pointing out the colors specs will be different.
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I think this is more a political question than anything technical. The
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Pantone system was designed for printing spot, not with process.
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Pantone's mistake, as I see it, is that they continue to listen to the
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request of end users to punish themselves by asking for solid to
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process guides, and a continuation of the delusion that there are
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reference CMYK values for any of the PMS colors.
How true. After 22-odd years in the design and production business, I still
wonder why designers use spot colors for process-color jobs. I use the spot
color guide for my spot colors, and the process color guide for my CMYK
colors. The only time I use the Solid-to-Process guide is when someone tells
me their logo has to be Pantone XYZ but the job I'm working on is a process
job. I call it my "CYA" guide.
Dave Creamer
I.D.E.A.S.
Training & Consulting for Print & Web
http://www.IDEAStraining.com
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