Overprinting spot colors export

[Agent_Orange]

couldn't you place it in indesign and use the ink manager to convert all spots to process?

[bluekivi]

how about converting the spots to process in the swatches pane in illy?

[beermonster]

get the illy elements looking how you want them - copy paste into pshop in a new document - that'll get it to cmyk if you cant do the illy file

alternatively, in illy, rasterize the elements - forcing cmyk again

or

select all the elemenst and pathfinder divide - hopefully this will create seperate elements that you can edit back to cmyk and get a reasonable match/colour mix - using the divide so there are editable elements which you can tweak - sadly the rasterize will just convert it and you wont be able to edit it easily.

yeah give us the ai file - we LOVE a challenge!

dont we folks.....?

[DCurry]

Or just drag the file onto your Phtotshop icon in the dock and that will force Photoshop to open it.

[pspdfppd]

Hey Beermonster!

You had the answer...when you rasterize the file in Illustrator it comes out beautifully...

When you copy and paste into photoshop it doesn't...

Thanks a lot, for some reason it never occurred to me to try this but it WORKS!!!!!!

[PrepressRabbit]

Select all, copy it, switch in parrallels to vista, paste it into a Publisher document. That'll fix it.

[pspdfppd]

your forgot to bring it back into quark, save the page as an eps, import it into pagemaker, print a postscript file, THEN open it up in Graphic Converter.

[pspdfppd]

Another cool thing I learned in this whole exercise.....

When you rasterize the file in Illustrator, if you check the "create clipping mask" option you'll get a very good clipping path. (not sure if previous versions of Illustrator had this but I'm using CS3)

You copy the art from the rasterized Illustrator file, paste into a new Photoshop document, go back to Illustrator and copy the outer path, paste it as a path into the Photoshop document (it pastes right in place) then make it a clipping path. Awesome, you can usually learn at least one thing every day in this line of work. This one's a really good one!

But don't forget...in the end...if you really want it all to turn out great....

Bring it back into Quark, save the page as an eps, import it into Pagemaker, print a postscript file then re-rasterize it in Photoshop. (preferrably version 4). Then it SHINES!

[pspdfppd]

I wish I hadda known now, what I now know a long time ago. Coulda saved a lot of grief.

[beermonster]

good stuff

i did the copy paste to photoshop and it did work though, but then again my effort was just 2 overlapping boxes not your set up - anyway - problem solved.

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