Hi,
I'd like to achieve this through preflight or an action:
Jobs with spot colours = Pass
Jobs with unknown colours [knife, cut, don't print, day glo pink, card goes here .... ] = Fail
ALTHOUGH..
I'd like to fail every unknown colour a designer could put in their art - without having to form a list, which could get exhausting
But then, I'd like to allow colours we know what to do with, such as EyeCut, EyeCrease, which are interpreted correctly by our workflows
Not allowing unknown Spots, except some
Re: Not allowing unknown Spots, except some
Perhaps this phrases the question more clearly:
All normal spot colours + some named spot colours I choose to have = pass
Any named spot that is not in the Pantone library, and is not in my white list = fail
E.g
PANTONE 485 C + EyeCut = pass (because EyeCut is in my white list and I know what to do with it)
PANTONE 485 C + Perforate = fail (because the designer is inventing colours to mean something that my workflow can't interpret (yet)
All normal spot colours + some named spot colours I choose to have = pass
Any named spot that is not in the Pantone library, and is not in my white list = fail
E.g
PANTONE 485 C + EyeCut = pass (because EyeCut is in my white list and I know what to do with it)
PANTONE 485 C + Perforate = fail (because the designer is inventing colours to mean something that my workflow can't interpret (yet)
Re: Not allowing unknown Spots, except some
Hi,
Here is a proposal that seems to do the job:
The idea is to use Regular Expression. The hard part is to "reverse" the expression so it looks at anything that do not match specific strings:
^((?!PANTONE|EyeCut).)*$
Here is a proposal that seems to do the job:
The idea is to use Regular Expression. The hard part is to "reverse" the expression so it looks at anything that do not match specific strings:
^((?!PANTONE|EyeCut).)*$
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- Checking for SPOTs not being PANTONE… nor EyeCut.eal.zip
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Re: Not allowing unknown Spots, except some
That's great and very easy to edit to my needs. - Thanks you very much!
One thing .. It flags "DeviceN" when present and I'd rather it didn't - example here
One thing .. It flags "DeviceN" when present and I'd rather it didn't - example here
Re: Not allowing unknown Spots, except some
Voilà…
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- Checking for SPOTs not being PANTONE… nor EyeCut.eal 2.zip
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Re: Not allowing unknown Spots, except some
Wow! I'd like to buy you a beer
Out of interest, how did you know to look for "Shading Objects"?
I had been trying to search for "DeviceN", then add a NOT, but it had not worked.
Out of interest, how did you know to look for "Shading Objects"?
I had been trying to search for "DeviceN", then add a NOT, but it had not worked.
Re: Not allowing unknown Spots, except some
Well beers certainly accepted !
Regarding to shading objects, I just needed to check what the object actually was using inspector. Once I could see it was shading objects it wasn't hard to exclude them from selection.
Regarding to shading objects, I just needed to check what the object actually was using inspector. Once I could see it was shading objects it wasn't hard to exclude them from selection.