Color Editor Spot Colors

Color Editor Spot Colors

This professional tool makes it possible for you to edit spot colors in PDF documents. You can create, modify and discard spot colors. You can replace them by others or give them different color recipes. In addition to using, for example, the integrated PANTONE®, PANTONE® hexachrome and HKS® color tables, users can create their own tables with custom color recipes.

Colors in a document can be defined as spot colors and then handled as such. Spot colors can be imported from external sources and used in the PDF document. You can also export spot colors to your own color tables. Two spot colors with the same name but with a different extension for the paper type used (e.g. PANTONE 541 CV and PANTONE 541 CVU) can be merged to one separation. Naming conflicts are solved automatically in this way.

This lets you take spot colors and colors from the color tables to create your own sets that you can then apply to different PDF files.

If spreading is then needed, users can assign attributes to spot colors to produce the desired overlap effects in trapping using other colors.

Overview of the functions of the spot color tool:

•Renaming and deletion of spot colors

•Creation of spot colors

•Merging of several spot colors to one spot color or one CMYK value

•Conversion of spot colors to process colors with the help of color tables

•Includes PANTONE®, PANTONE®hexachrome and HKS® color tables

•Color table editor for creating custom color tables

•Import/export of colors from/to color tables

•Creation and deletion of new colors

•Individual sets for general spot color settings

This tool has the following tabs:

•"Spot Colors" Tab

•"Multicolor" Tab

•"Default" Tab

•"Color Tables" Tab

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