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Originally Posted by sauce
I made a thread about this a month ago and no one could find the true answer. I googled for answers too with no results. I was really confused about why you can do it in Quark and even Publisher, but not in InDesign, Anyhow, here is a tutorial on how to recolor clipart for use in spot color layouts, all without flattening and keeping the vector data.
If you choose a WMF file I recommend doing the following...
A) Paste clipart in Publisher
B) Copy clipart from Publisher, this step seems to make the data import to Illustrator a lot cleaner
1) Paste clipart in Illustrator
2) Save as PDF
3) Open in Acrobat
4) Open Enfocus Pitstop, Show Inspector (Alt+Ctrl+I)
5) Select All (CTRL+A) in the file, to select all of the clipart
6) Color Tab --> Fill Color --> Spot Color
7) Choose your spot color, click OK, watch it get recolored!
8) Save PDF
9) Open PDF in Illustrator, note the correct color swatch
10) Save as AI
11) Import into InDesign
12) Rejoice
This is going to make my life a lot easier. I hope it helps you guys too.
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WTF! :lol:
As Yogi Berra would say, It's DejaVu all over again!
Sauce, no offense, but your original post was because you wanted to be able to color your original graphic in InDesign and now you want to:
1. Open up Publisher
2. Place the graphic
3. Copy
4. Open Illustrator
5. Paste
6. Save PDF
7. Open PDF in Acrobat
8. Repair with Pitstop
9. Save PDF
10. Open PDF in Illustrator
11. Save as AI file
12. Import into InDesign
That's the biggest fustercluck I've ever heard of. As many have stated before me, there are much more efficient ways to do this. How about creating the PDF out of Publisher and then fixing the PDF with Pitstop and then placing the PDF into InDesign? Or any of the much better methods others have suggested that are a lot more streamlined than the steps you suggest.
Even if you would open in Illustrator, select all, convert to gray, rasterize at 2400 dpi, save as EPS and then place into InDesign you can then color it to whatever spot color you need with one click and you won't be able to tell the difference at output from vector artwork. You are working way too hard at this.
