kaiserwilhelm
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Question after the setup:
Say I have a letter. It might go digital or it might go conventional.
I want to start the PDF out of Indesign with say 9 spots, CMYK on the front and 1 spot and black on the back.
I want the extra spots to get a much better piece off the digital press. (I have 1.3 billion feet of digital under my feet,
so I know what I need)
Conventional needs to end up as 5/2 (CMYK plus 286) over (K plus 286)
But, alas, my PDF is 9/2
Name of file is XXXYYY.pdf
PDF is brought in from folder and goes two paths.
Path one - digital. Leave alone, but maybe run an EAL for this or that.
Path two - convert ALL colors except 286 into CMYK
Now, imagine that I have a way of attaching the pms numbers that MUST stay for conventional. They are 286, on the front and back to the name of the file.
So, along one path of Switch, I have a pdf named: XXXYYY_F286_B286
Question - is there a way to dynamically make Switch / Pitstop Server convert all spots to CMYK...EXCEPT for the ones that it reads from the name of the file?
Say I have a letter. It might go digital or it might go conventional.
I want to start the PDF out of Indesign with say 9 spots, CMYK on the front and 1 spot and black on the back.
I want the extra spots to get a much better piece off the digital press. (I have 1.3 billion feet of digital under my feet,
so I know what I need)
Conventional needs to end up as 5/2 (CMYK plus 286) over (K plus 286)
But, alas, my PDF is 9/2
Name of file is XXXYYY.pdf
PDF is brought in from folder and goes two paths.
Path one - digital. Leave alone, but maybe run an EAL for this or that.
Path two - convert ALL colors except 286 into CMYK
Now, imagine that I have a way of attaching the pms numbers that MUST stay for conventional. They are 286, on the front and back to the name of the file.
So, along one path of Switch, I have a pdf named: XXXYYY_F286_B286
Question - is there a way to dynamically make Switch / Pitstop Server convert all spots to CMYK...EXCEPT for the ones that it reads from the name of the file?
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