White text you on spot

ArielRauch · Post by **ArielRauch** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:37 am

hi,

I have a pdf file which should be only with one spot color. Unfortunately, the white text on the spot color is recognized as cmyk.

I already tried to convert it to the spot checks color with 0% but for some reasons the resulting color has more than 0% of the spot.

I am not s specs in pitstop, I hope someone can help me out,

Thanks

Ariel

freddyp · Post by **freddyp** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:08 am

How did you convert the 0% CMYK? What type of object was it? Was an ICC profile attached to the object?

ArielRauch · Post by **ArielRauch** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:03 am

Hi Freddy,

we used "convert to color" and chose the relevant spot color (before we prepared the spot color for 0%).

We did it on all objects that responded to the condition of being CMYK. No, no ICC profile.

Thanks

Ariel

freddyp · Post by **freddyp** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:26 pm

The selection should be "Select color - CMYK - everything 0%", followed by "Change color". You may want to do this twice, once for filled objects, once for stroked objects.

Freddy

ArielRauch · Post by **ArielRauch** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:48 pm

I tried this. It always converts to the spot color with 5.3%

Any ideas?

freddyp · Post by **freddyp** » Thu Dec 04, 2014 9:07 am

Are you sure you used "Change color" instead of "Convert color"? List all the Actions you use.

Freddy

ArielRauch · Post by **ArielRauch** » Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:04 am

Freddy - you are the man! It worked!!!

How did you know that I used convert color:)

What is the exact difference between those two actions?

Terkelsen · Post by **Terkelsen** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 9:25 am

Convert Color will use the Color Management Setup and convert from the source-profile to the destination-profile, while Change Color will simply change between the chosen values.