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Kevin Parrott
Inspiring
June 7, 2019
Question

how to remove a spot colour from pdf

  • June 7, 2019
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Does anyone now how programmatically or manually remove a spot colour from a pdf, I don't want to map it, which is easy, as the name of the colour still remains when imported into another app, I tried loking through the preflight stuff, but didn't see anything that really stood out.

cheers

Mac OSX 10.12.6  Acrobat DC

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cicu812
New Participant
January 21, 2020

I've run this convert several times and when I go back to check whether the spot colors have been removed, it hasn't done anything, at all. What's wrong with Acrobat DC? I'm running the latest cloud and am not happy.

Abambo
Abambo
Community Expert
January 21, 2020

Please tell us more about your operating system and version, the software and version. Please use EXACT version numbers. "Latest version" does not tell us that you really have the latest version and will no more be true at the next version level.

 

Did you try my suggestion? If so and it did not work, you could create a dummy PDF and work on that. If it works there, you need to spot the difference. If it does not work, you may post a link to your file or dummy file and someone else will try...

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Abambo
Abambo
Community Expert
June 7, 2019

...use convert colour (print production).

Before:

and after:

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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Kevin ParrottAuthor
Inspiring
June 10, 2019

Thanks for the suggestion, tried it, it doesn't quite fit what i'm after.

If I delete some items in the pdf (using edit colour) that use a spot colour, I would expect that colour to disappear from

ink manager and ouput preview, it does sometimes, so by removing the colour from ink manager would work

as it then will not show once the PDF is placed in Indesign.

cheers

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Kevin ParrottAuthor
Inspiring
June 11, 2019

Acrobat has colour conversion but it does not have the ability to delete objects by spot colour. (If doing this, consider carefully the affect on overlapped objects; it can get real messy, real quickly).


I thought as much, il se if the extend script guru's can offer anything

cheers

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