spot colours in Indesign pdfs

[REDMOGUL01]

Hello everyone.
Does anyone know how to make spot colour pdfs in Indesign?

 

[jimoblak]

If you have a defined spot ink in InDesign (such as a PANTONE color), then that transfers to the PDF. You need more than the free Adobe Reader to deal with these spot colors in the PDF file. Get Acrobat Pro.

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[singlewahm]

As long as the ink manager is not set up to convert spots to process at the time of pdf, it should make a pdf with spot colors without issue.

Hope that helps,
Shannon

 

[REDMOGUL01]

Thank you Jimblak and Singlewahm. The problem seems that I get the pantone at the pdf stage but the Ink manager also shows all my CMYK till activated (seemingly). I have gone to the seperations window and turned them off but do not know how to assertain if thats worked.
Any ideas?

 

[jimoblak]

What do you want to do? Are you trying to print only a spot color plate? If so, print to PDF using the full verison of Acrobat. In the print dialog, turn off all but the spot color plate.

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[REDMOGUL01]

Jimoblak, cheers, I see how its done now! Simple when someone points the way.
I can now make pdfs of any colour, hurrah! I was trying to make pdfs only through Indesign before and hitting a brickwall. Many thanks.