Convert/Remap Colours

Report · Dec 12, 2016

Hi,

We have just gone over to new macs and unfortunately Acrobat DC.

On our older macs we were using Acrobat XI with a plugin called Quite Revealing which allowed us to quickly check for fonts, image resolution

and colours in a PDF. Unfortunately the software is 32bit and as Acrobat DC is now 64 bit we can no longer use the plugin.

I'm ok with the checking the fonts and image resolution but the problem I'm having is remapping and combining colours.

As an example the PDFs we are supplied have a spot colour of Pantone 2767 with a CMYK break down if converted of C100 M78 Y0 K54,

in Quite Revealing we currently change the Pantone 2767 CMYK values to C100 M90 Y10 K77 and also if there are 2 Pantone's of the same colour we can also merge them together.

My questions is, is it possible to do this in Acrobat DC which isn't to long winded

We need to do this as the same files are printed Litho and Digital.

thanks

Paul

Report · Dec 13, 2016

Here is one, not too long winded way:

Acrobat Pro Preflight Fixup: How to map lot of colors?

You can also do it with PitStop, if you have it.

Or you can place the PDF into InDesign and do it with the Ink Manager, in the Swatches panel- Create a new spot color that will convert to the desired color, then map the original spot color(s) to the new spot color.