Thanks, With the help and clues from several sources I now understand the color printing issue, including the Save as PDF In Frame and setting spot colors in Illustrator.
Ed On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Heiko Haida <info at heiko-haida.de> wrote: > ** > > Hi Ed, > > probably your colors are set to automatically separate to CMYK in > Illustrator: > > If you use a pantone library, all colors here are by default defined as > CMYK-separating colors, although a pantone value is displayed in the color > window... > > => Set the two colors to "spotcolor" in the color options (swatch > options). A small dot will then be visible in each color (in the swatches > palette for the document). > > After this, when producing a PDF, set the output option to "no color > conversion". > > The pantone colors will then have their own plates in the pdf as spot > colors. > > Pls see also: > > --> > http://karafintechteam.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/5/3/7853240/spot_color_and_adobe_illustrator.pdf > > Best regards > > Tino H. Haida, Berlin > > > > > > Ed Nodland: > > This seems like it should be simple and done routinely by many others. > > I have an image of a flammable substance label. It has a pantone red, a > pantone yellow, and black. I want to use the image in a Framemaker document > that will be sent for commercial printing using "Spot Color" not process > printing. How can I accomplish this? > > The image is an Illustrator file. I save the file to PDF, load it into > Frame 10, save the Frame file as PDF, open in acrobat pro and use Advanced > > Print Production > Output Preview to see that the image is a mix of CMYK > not my spot pantone colors. > > I also suspect that the image saved from Illustrator as a PDF format > should display the spot colors but it does not. So the problem/solution > might start there. > > Ed Nodland > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130911/62f72d9c/attachment.html>