Separating CMYK and Spot Colours
Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 5:23 pm
Hello,
I have a PDF where I have CMYK and a Spot Colour. The Spot Colour is intended to be used for digital foil, but I need to separate the two.
I can of course select all CMYK objects and delete them using an action, but the CMYK knocks-out the spot colour when viewing in output preview. When doing it this way, there's no knockout behaviour and I'm left with a full shape rather than parts cut out of it.
Is there a way you can "simulate" printing the PDF with separations turned off so you can keep knock-out behaviour when separating the two?
For workflow reasons we'd rather have a PDF containing CMYK, and another PDF containing foil before imposition.
I have a PDF where I have CMYK and a Spot Colour. The Spot Colour is intended to be used for digital foil, but I need to separate the two.
I can of course select all CMYK objects and delete them using an action, but the CMYK knocks-out the spot colour when viewing in output preview. When doing it this way, there's no knockout behaviour and I'm left with a full shape rather than parts cut out of it.
Is there a way you can "simulate" printing the PDF with separations turned off so you can keep knock-out behaviour when separating the two?
For workflow reasons we'd rather have a PDF containing CMYK, and another PDF containing foil before imposition.