Does Illustrator CS suport transparency with spot colors the way InDesign CS does????

[Fairfax_Hutter@adobeforums.com]

Adobe finally gave us transparency for overlapping spot colors with InDesign CS!!!!!! You can choose different blending modes—multiply, etc.—and yes, it works.

But have they done this with Illustrator CS???? If not, can you do a workaround where, having laid out your art in two spot colors, you can click on those same PMS swatches (in swatches palette) and assign/rename them to two CMYK inks? You can do this in InDesign CS.

Any improvements for spot color support over Illustrator 10???

Thanks,
Fairfax

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

Fairfax

List all the blending modes that work with spot color in InDesign.

Only normal and Multiply works with spot color.

Darken is one that could be argued whether it works or not.

The rest do not work with spot color. Either in InDesign nor Illustrator.

Yes, the blending modes work the same way in Illustrator 10 as in InDesign and also CS applications.

No, Illustrator does not alias inks, but you can merge the spot ink to a global process ink or you can change the cmyk preview of the ink and change it to a process.

There have been major spot raster support improvements in Illustrator CS similar to InDesign (except for dcs images)

Illustrator CS still does not offer the ability to create spot dropshadows or any blurrs with spot colors without workarounds.

[casey_mcgonagle@adobeforums.com]

you can use a blurred or drop shadowed object as an opacity mask over a spot color vector. I guess that's a work around but it sure is a good improvement.

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

you can use a blurred or drop shadowed object as an opacity mask over
a spot color vector.




:)

You could also do this since version 9. ;)

[federico_platon@adobeforums.com]

Hi John,

Excuse me if I did not understand well the question, but I have overlapped in IllustratorCS some squares filled with Pantone colors and applied each a different blend mode and opacity, other than Normal/Multiply at 100%, namely: Color Burn at 75%, or Color,… and when doing a separated PDF through the Print command I have got four empty CMYK plates (that can be disabled safely next time in the Output panel), and as many spot color plates as spot inks used in the AICS file.

I think, only Difference and Exclusion modes turn some areas of overlapping spot colors to process.

Regards

Federico