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scottr19778554
scottr19778554
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January 24, 2018
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Looking for actions or automation to remove fill from an element inside a multi page document

  • January 24, 2018
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I am part of a prepress team and recently we got a project from the client that came with a small grey PMS circle at the bottom of the pages to act as a guide for drill holes as part of its binary process. We had to go page by page selecting the circle and then removing the fill from it for all 70 pages. Is there an action or automated process that can do that faster in the future?

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Stephen Marsh
Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
January 25, 2018

If no other objects use the spot colour in question… Then using a custom preflight fix that references a custom preflight check:

This is making the fill object white, not none… So it may not be suitable if over a non-white background (unless overprint or multiply blends were added as a workaround).

I am more comfortable with Enfocus PitStop Pro, so there may be a better way than this quick hack.

scottr19778554
scottr19778554Author
New Participant
January 25, 2018

That was one solution we tried, ignoring the spot color in question. The problem is just how you described it though in that it makes the area white and not simply transparent. We do use PitStop but haven't come up with anything that seems to fix the problem.

Stephen Marsh
Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
January 25, 2018

PitStop is fantastic as it offers many ways to select and change objects. Can you provide a sample PDF? It often depends on document specifics rather than a generic fix.

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