I've asked a similar question in the past but still experience the same problems when converting files to PDF.
The 'mast head' is a monotone bitmap filled with PANTONE 032. When I attempt to create a pdf using the settings above (convert all colours to greyscale and leave spot colours alone) I get the rather strange appearance of the PDF with the unusal spot plates of Blue, Green and Red?
I need to create 2 plates ultimately as these magazines are printed in black only with spot colour (032) on the front page only and I'm struggling with the results I'm getting.
Any ideas?
Cheers in advance
John
Hi John.Seems to work as expected here, without RGB plates.Looks to me as if the bitmap has two colors, the red and something more.Can you post or upload a zipped CDR with the bitmap (or entire file)?
Think the mast head logo is coming in as RGB rather than monotone? If I place the logo into a page on its own all works fine? There's some kind of reaction to the other elements in the page
Sorry, Ignore my last reply, I've now got the document palette showing with 032 red in it but still getting the same results
Once added, did you select the image at the top and use the Pantone to fill it?
I did, I dragged the Pantone over the masthead image to fill.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bfr34q6vt7aik9g/Greyscale_spot%20test%20file-mod.cdr?dl=0
Hi Mike
This is the result I get when I publish 'your' file to PDF using my settings
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8lv85zjidwxswrk/Greyscale_spot%20test%20file.pdf?dl=0
is my pdf...
On face value that gets round the problem with the spot plates but the PDF settings you're using don't result in 2 plates that I require (black and 032). There a 4 plates and 1 spot plate in the PDF.
jaypeegolf said:This is the result I get when I publish 'your' file to PDF using my settings
What settings are you using?
I posted them in my initial post. See image above.I'm outputing colours to greyscale and chosing not to convert spot colours. i.e leave spot colours as spot colours.
On the Print menu it looks correct