I have a mate that wants to make this:
A set of Mixed colours (multi ink, if you prefer) formed by black and one Pantone (300 C if you like). A hand book of about 500 pages. InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator CS1.
How on Earth can you prepare a final PDF that has only two plates (black and 300-C) and uses mixed inks (here comes the rub) as well
in Illustrator files?
We know how to make that in Photoshop and inDesign and we know a way to make it in illustrator (using the Cyan instead of 300-C).
I thought that it would be possible to make it so by proxy in Illustrator and aftwerwards swap change the Cyan plate for 300-C (Acrobat and PitStop, I believed). But I have seen that's not possible (or easy). Some Illustrator files include gradientes from 30C+30K to 30C+100K and the cannot be reached via Acrobat-PitStop to swap the Cyan. It is impossible to use the "ink administrator" (sorry, i am translating from Spanish-version software) in InDesign to change Cyan for 300-C either...
We are stuck
ops: . Is making Cyan+black and then printing Cyan as 300-C the only way?
Thanks a lot
