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well! i am one step further! i applied the Pantone swatches to the color stops in the gradient. now, when i saved as PDF, and go into output preview in Acrobat, i DO see the 2 Pantone plates, but i also still see the CMYK plates. will my printer be able to choose which plates to print from...

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well all shapes have a halftone, im not sure if that changes anything. but when i click the shapes, then go to the gradient color selector, the color is set at a CMYK value, even though the color that is used in the swatches pallette is a Pantone value. but that is because Illustrator doesnt...

andrew, i just saved as PDF, and in adobe i went to output preview to show color separations...it only shows the 4 CMYK plates, if i chose show "spot color" only, there are no plates to be shown...what am i doing wrong? :(

when i go to save as PDF, i can save under different profiles. its default is the illustrator PDF default, should i change that to the "press quality" profile?

Hey andrew, thanks for the quick reply. Yes, the colors are indeed spot colors and do contain the black dot. i am using acrobat pro 8 and i do not see the option for "output preview" under advanced. there is a tab for "output" but only a "color" and "pdf/x" sub-tabs under that. so what can...

I currently have a VERY simply vector logo in illustrator CS3. The file contains 2 layers: 1 layer consists of 3 shapes that are one Pantone color (296) and the 2nd layer consists of 2 shapes that are another Pantone color (293). As of right now, my document is in CMYK mode, my swatches panel is...