spotcolors change in other adobe programs

[martin draax]

Hey guys!

When I make a pantone colour in Illustrator and put it in the cc libraries, Indesign makes that a new spotcolour, adding a number to it.

I made a spotcolour called PMS#8640 and added it to libraries. In indesign, I later wanted to give objects that same colour but the spot colours used in the illustrator file are now called PMS#8640 01 and exporting a pdf creates two films (PMS#8640 andPMS#8640 01) for what I want to be one.

Am I the first with this problem? I had to open everything in Illustrator and use the colour seperation window to adjust by hand, but that seems quite sily.

thanx!

martin

[Ton Frederiks]

Currently the CC Libraries are not very reliable when exchanging colors between applications.

But I cannot replicate the behaviour you described. Did you rename that Pantone color? Should it not be PANTONE 8640 C?

That aside, the only reliable way to transfer spot colors with their Lab definition is to create a rectangle in Illustrator, fill it with the Pantone color and drag the object to the CC library.

When you want to use that color in another document, Alt drag the object from the Library into another document. this will add the correct color definition to the swatches and you can delete the object.

[Ton Frederiks]

There is a workaround, you can use InDesign's Ink Manager to merge the 2 spotcolor names into one by assigning an Ink Alias to the duplicate spot ink

[Danny Whitehead.]

I'd definitely advise using the proper Pantone swatch (named 'PANTONE 8640 C'), from the Swatches flyout menu > Open Swatch Library > Color Books > PANTONE+ Metallic Coated.