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Hi, it often happens that certain special German characters such as umlauts (ä, ö, ü) in the names of spot colors are displayed with a hyphen in PitStop Inspector. Such spot color names cannot be renamed to a different spot color name using the ‘Remap spot color’ action. Nothing happens, without an ...

schmitzdp wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 1:05 pm ...I would have preferred to use Pitstop...

As an alternative to a PitStop action list, you could do this directly with Acrobat's own Action Wizard tool and a custom Acrobat action. The screenshot shows how.

Hi Loïc,

'Split in subpaths' alone works fine. I hadn't tried that because I thought I had to select them beforehand with the ‘select subpaths’ action.
Then ‘Split in subpaths’ does not work.

Thank you very much, that's done for me.

Kind regards
yosimo

Hi, when I export a PDF with cut marks from Indesign, the cut marks are defined as part of a path group (subpath). This is what the object browser shows. You can also see all the additional cut marks highlighted in yellow, although only one cut mark is selected. What action can I use to select these...

Hmm, the PDFs only contain simple image data. No alpha fill, no mask and no native transparency.
How is PitStop Pro supposed to find this if the PDF does not even contain the properties to be searched for?

JavierLFPC wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 12:52 pm ...In attachment you can find 2 pdf files, ...

Hi JavierLFPC,
I cannot find your PDF files. Only JPG files are shown. Perhaps you could make the PDF files available for download (from a file hoster)?

Hi Loïc,

I've learned something new with your action list, thank you.
I think it's also easier. And you can pick or grab the spot colors directly in the action.

Hi,

for your PDF you could try the action list as shown in the screenshot.

Regards
Yosimo

...I was really hoping for a pitstop solution...

Hi,
I have a action list for PitStop Pro with which bitmap images can be inverted.
Maybe it will help.

Action list: https://magentacloud.de/s/sdQmjJRsHNH2oXe

I could also offer this RegEx: (?i)([^;]*\bPANTONE\b[^;]*) Explanation: [1] (?i) → Activates case insensitivity (so that “pantone”, “Pantone”, etc. are also found). [2] ^ → Starts the search at the beginning of the character string. [3] ([^;]*\bPANTONE\b[^;]*) → Searches for the first expression tha...

Perhaps a simple pitstop preflight that only names the color separations will suffice.
I think that's faster than an pitstop action list.

Maybe it helps to define the Alternate Color Space of the spot/registration color 'All' in gray?

Hi, my PDF contains objects filled with a "Colored Tiling Pattern". Now the 4c orange is to be converted to a PANTONE color tone and the dark 4c tone is to be set to 90% black. Which PitStop action can I use to select the vector elements in the colored tiling pattern to apply the color val...

Hi Loïc,

the PDFToolbox from Callas offers a fixup “Remove additional encoding entries in cmap of symbolic TrueType fonts”. This corrects the PDF.
There is also a test that can be carried out in advance.

loicaigon wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:20 pm Can you share your file? I would love to test that competition capability of such a fix.

Yes, of course. I have uploaded two files here:

https://magentacloud.de/s/f5czbLPAj3JtgPs

Thank you very much.