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how to remove a spot colour from pdf

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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

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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

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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...

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Abambo

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...use convert colour (print production).

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Kevin ParrottAuthor

Inspiring

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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pennys4432362

Participating Frequently

I ended up finding a fixup in the acrobat preflight settings that is able to do mpst of what I want, it will delete all objects named with the colour i give it and save a new pdf, which in turn will delete the colour chip out of colour manager.

The "Remove Objects" fix using apply to "list spot colours with specified name", thne add a property to it called "spot colour name"

then tell it to remove spot colours with a particular name, it will throw a dialog up, so you can change instead of using the default.

This fixup worked for me like a dream. Thanks to a 2019 post working still today!

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