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Old 06-21-2007, 08:49 AM
jimlin jimlin is offline
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removing a spot color from a PDF

We have archived PDFs that contain a spot color for annotations. We now need to remove the spot from the PDF for another use.

I would normally use Pitstop to do this, but I was wondering if Acrobat Professional 8 can do this, or do I still need Pitstop?
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Old 06-21-2007, 11:32 AM
PeterKleinheider PeterKleinheider is offline
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Re: removing a spot color from a PDF

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Originally Posted by jimlin
I would normally use Pitstop to do this, but I was wondering if Acrobat Professional 8 can do this, or do I still need Pitstop?
How to do it:
1) Rename the Spot Color to remove to "None"
however, this leaves all elements in the PDF, they just don't draw

2) Create a layered preflight report using Preflight of Acrobat 8, generating a layer for every spot color. Then switch off the layer - the layer with the spot colors - and flatten the layer. This way you really get rid of the elements.

3) select all Elements defined in spot color and delete them - a very time consuming and error prone work.

For step 1 I use pdfColorConvert from callas software, since renaming a spot color is much much easier than to write an action for that one spot color to remove it (rename it to "None"), but you also can do this with Pitstop.
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Old 07-25-2007, 06:11 AM
Ali Haghparast Ali Haghparast is offline
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Creo Pandor or Esko Plato

Hi
I need a cad based imposition software,and I need some help to get
best products,I have a demo version of Creo Pandora,it seems nice,but
I heard about Esko plato,is it better than Creo Pandora?
is it possible to have a demo of it?
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