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I am creating a a flow where I :



Take an imposed Pdf of the sheet size (example 19 x 25)

Add a plate with setbacks

Add a density bar

Add text tag for identifying color separations on plate



I am having trouble with the last step. I can not for the life of me figure out how to make a text tag with the correct color separations. For example



I have a document that prints as CMYK+Pantone 186 C

I can create a text line that Reads;



Cyan (on the Cyan Separation)

Magenta (on the Magenta Separation)

Yellow (on the Yellow Separation)

Black (on the Black Separation)

Pantone 186 C (I can not put this on the 186 seperation without manual intervention)



Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated



Thanks,

Paul Hough

Use Stat.Colorants to get the spot color names, add CMYK to the string and set a Pitstop variable that is used to Stamp Text in Pitstop

D Kelly,



Thank you for the quick response. unfortunately this does not work. You can indeed pull the color names in from stats.colorants, but you can not use the same variable as a fill color. The fill color variable has to be a boolean. ( if Boolean == True then fill Color = Static value)



Unless I am missing something.



Thanks,

Paul Hough

ah, I missed that part of your requirements. I would recommend using Apago's PDFspy to retrieve the color names and spot simulation values. A simple script could read the values from PDFspy and set the appropriate variables for color names and values.

Thanks for the additional info, But i do not have a copy of that program. Is there a way to accomplish this using pitstop?



Thanks,

Paul Hough