I have a question similar to the original poster, but with a twist.

I have a logo in an AI file. All outlines. It has multiple colors (stroke
and fill). Some colors are lighter than others.

I'd like to copy this logo into a single spot color project, and adopt the
spot color intelligently (in other words, the lighter colors should be a
lighter shade of the spot color).

How do I do this? Selecting all the outlines and choosing "make opacity
mask" does nothing.

If I select all and apply the spot color on all, what I get is an unreadable
big blotch of whatever the spot color is. Because it applied the color
uniformily.

Manually selecting different transparencies for each element of the logo is
a long and tedious process, and a very ineffective one, as the elements
"underneath" start showing through the transparency.

Perhaps there is a way to convert these outlines to flat bmp and then use
that as an opacity mask over the spot color? But even if that were possible,
the image would become rasterized, wouldn't it? And lose its elasticity.

Any suggestions?

"steggy" <steggy@bnrd.invalid.net> wrote in message
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> Found it with thanks to Poul:))
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> Hello Nanci...
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> Make an object bigger than your greyscale bitmap and give i
> a fill with
> the colour you want. Then place your bitmap on top, select
> all, go to
> the tranparency palette and choose make opacity mask.
> Poul Solbjerg
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