find Acrobat spot color?

[Kathleen]

Is there a way to find out what a spot color is in Acrobat?
Kat
McGraphics Design, Inc.
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[John Kramer Design]

Is there a way to find out what a spot color is in Acrobat?

In Acrobat 10, click on the Tools tab at upper right, then Print Production, then Overprint Preview.

(Vaguely recall Overprint Preview being found somewhere in the Tools menu in older versions.)
Very useful tool!

[William Adams]

Acrobat 9 provides a pane called (Advanced | Print Production | ) ``Output Preview'' and will list all the plates.

William
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[Bevi | PubCom]

Slight correction…

In Print Production toolbar, select OUTPUT Preview and you can view where in the document the spot color was used. Click the separation layers on/off to view them by color. This is similar to InDesign’s interface, but not as attractive.

 

If you want to CHANGE the spot colors, use the INK MANAGER tool in Print Production and click Convert All Spots to Process. But keep in mind that you might get some drastic changes to your color when you do that conversion.

 

—Bevi

 

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[John Kramer Design]

On Monday, December 3, 2012 2:58:01 PM UTC-5, Bevi Chagnon | PubCom.com wrote:

Slight correction…

In Print Production toolbar, select OUTPUT Preview 

Sorry, OUTPUT. But, in my pathetic self-defense, this is a great way to see confirm anything that should be OVERPRINTING if the printer is printing from the pdf.

[Kathleen]

Interesting. Acrobat X (the last version, 10 I guess) Ink mgr. gave me a CYMK for the spot. I suppose client might have used a CYMK equivalent instead of a spot. Learn something new.
Thanks for your help everyone.

[Bret Perry]

On 12/3/12 11:39 AM, "Kathleen" <kat...@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Is there a way to find out what a spot color is in Acrobat?

If all else fails with any "image" you could create a new InDesign doc,
delete all the swatches, then import the PDF and see what swatches it
loads into ID.
(if t doesn't load any it is CMYK or RGB)

Bret Perry
Studio IT Manager/Production Artist
ph 626-463-9365
fax 626-449-2201
bpe...@russreid.com


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[Bevi | PubCom]

Your client could have converted the spots to CMYK during the
conversion/export of the PDF, depending upon what they set in the PDF export
settings.
- Bevi

[Stephen Marsh]

Additionally, Acrobat Pro has single checks and or full preflight profiles that will also list spot colours and their "alternate color space" values (usually device CMYK, Lab etc).

Stephen Marsh