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I also don't see any benefits over RGB, and it has the same drawback of designers working in out-of-gamut colours. In fact, if I read correctly, they even suggest signing off on proofs that will likely contain colours that are out-of-gamut of the final output. Not 255 Blue out-of-gamut, but...

It makes absolutely no sense, since the digital Pantone Solid Coated and Uncoated libraries are intended to represent how solid inks look when printed on their respective substrates. They're not intended to represent how CMYK values will print. For that, you use CMYK process colours and assign...

I'd say the lack of support for transparency is the strongest case against EPS. Maybe you have a real job that you can use to demonstrate the difference between PDF and EPS? Something with both transparency and spot colours would be ideal - for instance an image that has been masked in Photoshop...

If you just want PDF to send to the RIP (rather than a conversion that you'll be able to edit in future), then it's the old PostScript-Distiller dance. We've a decade or so's worth of legacy FH files in our archive, but luckily I've not had to deal with one for a year or two*. But yeah, for...

I thought the insinuation was that preflighting in Acrobat was untrustworthy, and wondered why.

I must have got lucky, it only converted my type to outlines...

Also, watch out for a bug where if you work on a table on a master page, then cut/copy & paste into a normal page, the headers disappear. You can bring them back back resizing the text box and undoing.

I'd personally call Pantone 937 a pastel green. I guess that bit of 802 in the mix has quite an effect. And it's barely out of the FOGRA39 gamut. I'm another one very much in favour of Pantone ditching those random CMYK breakdowns for Lab, but their legacy looms large.

The wisdom of using an extra light font at 6pt is questionable (the use of light display fonts at text sizes is a common mistake), but to me it looks like it's printing as intended, and is readable. So if anything I'd say it's a question getting the proofer to more accurately reflect the print...

They won't on press.

Presuming the CMYK conversion is a match for how the spot colour actually prints, which to me sounds like the real challenge that's being missed amidst relatively superficial concerns about on-screen appearance.

What application are you making the conversion in? Has this 'Special Orange' ever actually been printed as a spot ink? Because if it has, it's unlikely that it actually matched a 0 85 100 0 process mix on your press, so you'll need a sample to match. I'd consider that to be the important issue...

It doesn't seem like a very smart way to leak intelligence documents. Still, it shows that print's not dead in the espionage sector.

You're right that unless you specifically granted them rights to the artwork, it remains your property, and you have no legal obligation to hand it over, even if they explicitly paid for that part of the job. But the other replies are right that it could be in your commercial interests to hand...

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Well, one might have some reservations about the two, given that bombing ISIS strengthens Assad, and vice-versa. They're both vile, but we need a pragmatic strategy. I don't know exactly what that is, and Trump certainly doesn't.

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Nope, there's no such Pantone number.

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Surely they meant the CS versions. Otherwise, people would subscribe for a month when a new version came out, then unsubscribe again.