PDF Spot Color 1

[enigma2212]

Hi Everyone,

I was hoping one of you design gurus could help me. Just a quick question...
I have a file in indesign with 2 spot colors and other CMYK colors.
The printer has asked for a PDF of this. How do I do this from within Indesign. I do not have distiller or anything else as such.
Typically what I do is, use InDesign to Export to PDF. Other than that the only other thing I have is the Acrobat Reader.
So my question is, can I export my composition with spot colors in the same way as I have previously done and will it retain the spot colours, if so how do I check??

Okay I realised that's more than one question (lol) but any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[spamjim]

Export to PDF/X-1a or whatever profile that your printer recommends. If you see any setting that asks to convert spots to process, be certain that it is disabled.

If you feel that you need to check, your output can be tested with Acrobat Pro (maybe a free 30day trial from adobe.com will suit you).

You could also create a new InDesign document and place that PDF file. If spots appear in your swatches palette/panel after placing the PDF, the data was properly saved in the PDF file.

 

[enigma2212]

thanks Spamjim!!

 

[apepp]

...to add...

...be careful with additional spot colors that interact with transparency that are intended to be converted to CMYK later in a workflow (or aliased/mapped to another ink), problems can occur with this in flattened acrobat 1.3 files and can't really be fixed in most cases...

...same holds true if spot aliasing is involved further down the workflow...

...these areas can turn to white if the rip tries to alias or convert it to CMYK...

...if it's flattened and you have the correct number of spot plates you'll be fine usually...

Andrew