Overprint spot color

[Jalan]

I feel like a dolt asking this, but how do you set an entire ink other than black to overprint?
Say I have a dark PMS blue on a light PMS tan background. I want all, every little bit defined as PMS Blue, to overprint. Text, objects, grayscale colorized images, 1-bit tiffs colorized, etc...
Instead of selecting manually every little object and using attributes to tell fill and strokes to overprint, I want a quick single quick fix.

[David]

Originally Posted by Jalan1974

I feel like a dolt asking this, but how do you set an entire ink other than black to overprint?
Say I have a dark PMS blue on a light PMS tan background. I want all, every little bit defined as PMS Blue, to overprint. Text, objects, grayscale colorized images, 1-bit tiffs colorized, etc...
Instead of selecting manually every little object and using attributes to tell fill and strokes to overprint, I want a quick single quick fix.

Apparently this is kind of a bug in ID. See this link on the adobe forums for some work arounds.

Hope this helps,
David

[Sparky]

David, that forum link got quite heated there. I felt like yelling out "Do the red one Bob!!"

but after 30 minutes of reading down the thread I still saw no solution to his question.

As far as Jalan though I think the multi-layered approach would work perfect.

ps. love the avatar :wink:

[DCurry]

Jalan - is it possible to set the spot to overprint at your rip? On mine, you can tell any spot color to overprint - it overrides any instructions in the original file.