Hi,
I have a problem creating a CutContour. I have to use 100% Magenta and set it to spot color. Every time I set the color to spot it automatically sets the color from 0|100|0|0 to 5|95|0|0 and I can't change these settings.
Can anyone help me with this?
What you should do is to create it as a spot colour in a custom palette.
For a cut contour, it is tne name of the spot colour that matters. Your cutting software should be looking for that name, not for a specific CMYK value which you are highly likely to be using somewhere in the design.
Thanks for your quick response.
I did create a custom palette and I named the color right. My printing company needs the color to be 100% Magenta as spot color, named "Lack". But every time I add 0|100|0|0 to my palette and set it to spot the color changes to 5|95|0|0. I spent hours to solve that problem but I can't solve it ... please help!!!
I think its likely that the colour model or colour management settings are causing the change.
I don't have X5 to test this with, but if X5 works the same way as X4, I believe it is possible to find the colour palette file, open it in a text editor and change the colours there.
Thanks again for your help. So I tried to edit the palette file, it says 0,1,0,0 ... when I change that to 0,100,0,0 I get 0|60|0|0 ... now I don't know what else to do. In all the standard spot color palettes there is no color with 100% Magenta :(
It works here - see attached pdf sample file.
Do you have installed all updates?
Best regards,
Mek