Assingning a Pantone to a pattern swatch. Doable?

[Gregg]

I have been supplied a pattern swatch. It currently has a HSB color recipe for the background color. I need it to be a Spot color.

It appears all I can do is assign it CMYK, RGB, Web RGB, Tints, Lab, or HSB values. Am I overlooking something?

I'm in CS4.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Lukas Engqvist]

Illustrator what version? Spot colours in Illustrator are a check box, and will have alternative definition in CMYK, RGB, Lab etc. You should be able to drag the pattern swatch to the desktop, replace the colours as you like and then drag back into swatches.

You should even be able to use re-color artwork which will give you an edited copy of the original pattern limiting it to a pantone book… this will make all colours limited to the closest pantone spot color. Once you have re-colored then you can edit the pantone colours to whatever you like.

(note remember to change to unique names if you edit the pantone colour and dont' want it accidently changing back in the rip)

 

[Gregg]

Thanks, Lukas.

I am in CS4 and trying to use Re-Color Artwork, but I am unable to get any spot color options. This is what I get (see attached screen grab).

 

[Lukas Engqvist]

You're so close. The button right next to where you choose colour mode is where you limit to a library. See the screenshots. You will see the swatches get the corner markings of global spot colours. (note in the settings you can choose if you want to include or exclude black and/or white)

 

[Gregg]

Got it! Thanks so much, Lukas!