Adobe Illustrator - convert cmyk to pantone

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convert cmyk to pantone

Bruce McLennan

2006-04-10, 3:16 am

I have a complex document that is part cmyk/part pms and wish to convert the
cmyk to 2 pms colours. Is there a simple way to select (numerous) objects to
change their colour to a pms so we don't have to do them one by one?

Thanks in advance
Bruce

PacMan

2006-04-10, 10:16 pm

On 2006-04-10 02:41:32 -0300, "Bruce McLennan"
<brucemclennan@optusnet.com.au> said:

> I have a complex document that is part cmyk/part pms and wish to convert the
> cmyk to 2 pms colours. Is there a simple way to select (numerous) objects to
> change their colour to a pms so we don't have to do them one by one?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Bruce

Just select the cmyk color you want converted,
select "same fill" or "same stroke" and then once the same color is
selected everywhere...
click the pantone color in the swatches palette to switch.
that's it.

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Cheers
PacMan

steggy

2006-04-10, 10:16 pm

PacMan wrote:
> On 2006-04-10 02:41:32 -0300, "Bruce McLennan"
> <brucemclennan@optusnet.com.au> said:
>
>
>
> Just select the cmyk color you want converted,
> select "same fill" or "same stroke" and then once the same color is
> selected everywhere...
> click the pantone color in the swatches palette to switch.
> that's it.
>

That was the first thing that came up with me, but.......CMYK is full
color so chances are high there are different percentages all over the
place.

I do not think it is really possible, unless the same percentages were
applied everywhere for that CMYK color. You will probably need a Swatch
Guide to convert CMYK to PMS with the eye, and manually change all the
objects.

My 2 cents.

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steg

slimick@gmail.com

2006-04-15, 10:17 pm

You found out the hard way about using both Pantone and CMYK together.
The posting above is correct...you can only "Select All" if the
particular CYMK color has indentical CMYK percentages in the other
objects you want to select....this is highly unlikely.