ID 2.0 spot color mapping/substitution??

[theano_mouratides@adobeforums.com]

I don't suppose this is possible, but we have one-color (Pantone 485 C) documents that must now use a different (Pantone 173 U) spot color, and it would be super to be able to map the old swatch to the new one. I know you can do "ink aliasing" for the PDF but because our print release services also require native files, I think we will fail because the natives will not match the PDFs.

If anyone knows a quicker way to substitute the colors than to choose each little object and apply the new fill and/or stroke, I'd sure appreciate hearing about it.

Thanks,
Theano Petersen

[Bob_Levine]

If it's only one color, just tell the printer to replace the old color
with the new one.

Bob

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

If the color is not associated with any imported eps or pdf files, then just create the new swatch, then select the old one and delete it, requesting that the new one replace the old.

Dave

[theano_mouratides@adobeforums.com]

Ink aliasing does better than that. It actually uses the new color in the PDF. We do have a special instructions section in our spec where we can tell the printer things, but in our experience this is sometimes ignored. Basically for our release process, natives must match PDFs. We usually don't even know who the printer will be, many times several different printers for one manual over its life.

[theano_mouratides@adobeforums.com]

You cannot delete a swatch if it is being used. The option is grayed out.

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Not true. You can delete a swatch that is in use, provided that it is not an imported swatch (that is, one that came in with an eps or pdf file). If the swatch is no longer being used in an imported eps, it will sometimes (let's be honest: usually) still behave as though it is being used that way, in which case, there's a trick you can use to render the swatch deletable, see: Dave Saunders "[Perm] Frequently Encountered Problems with Resolutions" 4/6/04 7:49am </cgi-bin/webx?14@@.2ccfadc1/2>

Although that message is in the Mac forum, it applies across platforms.

Dave