How to save pdf which contains pantone colors properly?

[AngyQ]

Hello everyone. Here is the problem:

I'm usually doing my artwork in CMYK colors, but one of my customer's concepts require two Pantone colors. I use Pantone colors from swatches library and save print ready file as pdf. But, after sending a file to typography I get my file back with the message, that there are no Pantone colors - I used CMYK colors. I don't convert any colors to CMYK before saving, I googled about it and I'm pretty sure I did everything right. I called to guy from typography and he told me how to convert colors to Pantone. I did as he told me, but the result is still the same - Pantone colors are gone in final pdf. Is that possible, that after saving in pdf there is somewhere checkbox, which converts all colors to CMYK? Because I do another work for this client I don't want to face this problem again - so If anyone has any idea, what is the problem, I will be very thankful for your answers.f that question

Thanks

[SJRiegel]

When you export the pdf, what are you color settings? No Color Conversion will retain your colors as Pantone spot colors.

[Larry G. Schneider]

The only one I can think of is in the Ink Manager dialog.

[AngyQ]

SRiegel Hey, I save pdf with no color conversation

Larry G. Schneider in InkManager, there are no Pantone colors shown

And there is one strange thing - I replaced one object's Pantone color with another but from the other Pantone color book, saved as usual and I see this color in InkManager. How is that possible? And as I understood typography handled it (replaced CMYK colors with Pantone I named)

[Larry G. Schneider · Accepted solution]

Which Color Book did you use? Not the Process one I hope. If so that is the problem.

[AngyQ]

I just looked for best match online for my CMYK colors I used at first, so after that I just typed Pantone name/code? in swatches search field and it gave me these two. I searched them in Pantone + CMYK color book, so yeah, probably it was not an good idea, now I see there are process colors too. I honestly don't know the difference, but now I know I should avoid them working with Pantones. Thanks