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    Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors?

    Re: Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors? That's correct. Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Still interested in any other tricks or plug-ins anyone has had success with! Speed is of utmost importance, of course.
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    Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors?

    Re: Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors? That sounds like a great plug-in. Can you give similar functionality to Acrobat? I'm not a marketing person, but I would imagine that there are a lot of printers who would love more editing capability in Acrobat. Not all PDF files can be...
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    Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors?

    Re: Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors? The file looks good John. How did you convert the image to Pantone 158?
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    Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors?

    Re: Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors? My e-mail is [email protected]
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    Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors?

    Re: Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors? I'm actually attaching a sample portion of the page. You will see that there is some Orange line art (Pantone 158) and a background image that is supposed to be in Pantone 158, but is a CMYK image. You can select the CMYK image in Inspector, click...
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    Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors?

    Re: Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors? I have a printing business and we receive many files that have color space issues. It is often faster to fix them ourselves, rather than wait for a customer to fix the file and resubmit. That being said, fixing in the native application certainly...
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    Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors?

    Re: Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors? Thanks for the response Tim. However, my image is a continuous tone image, so I don't get the slider bar. Thanks also, AlMaink. With regard to remapping the various color separations to the Pantone color, I don't seem to be able to do that. I...
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    Converting CMYK or RGB to Pantone colors?

    Hello. I realize that it is very difficult to come up with an algorithm that will examine a CMYK or RGB image and decide how to map that to a Pantone ink. When I convert an RGB or CMYK image to a Pantone ink with Pitstop, it ends up screening the image much lighter than I want. And I don't...

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