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: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:37:18 -0700
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It's not possible to do this. You can only convert spot colors in an
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RGB document into RGB. What I think you're doing is clicking on the
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color palette's menu (little triangle in a circle on the upper right
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corner of the palette) and selecting CMYK. This actually causes the
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spot color to be converted to RGB, but shows you the CMYK equivalent of
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the RGB value based on the Document's assigned profile (an RGB profile)
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as source, and the currently selected CMYK working space as destination.
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If you use the eye dropper tool and the Info palette on the object in
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question, you will see that it is an RGB object, regardless of what the
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Color palette is saying.
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Illustrator documents can't contain mixed mode content. An RGB document
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can contain only RGB, grayscale and spot objects. A CMYK document can
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contain only CMYK, grayscale and spot objects. No RGB and CMYK in the
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same document.
Chris, I KNOW that you can't really select/create CMYK colors in an RGB
document, that is why I added the following:
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I realize that converting the color to CMYK in an RGB document does not REALLY
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make it a true CMYK color--but you can SELECT your colors that way.
I was referring to how a USER might mistake the CMYK spec in RGB mode for
true CMYK.
With all due respect, what was the point of the above response?
Dave Creamer
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