Urgent Illy help
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- Zenith_Kudos
Hi folks.
I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted here, and for that I apologize.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to replicate InDesign’s “New Mixed Ink Swatch” function in Illustrator?
i.e. I want to be able to make a swatch in Illustrator that is a % combination of 2 spot colours. I don’t want to do it by duplicating artwork on top of itself, recolouring and overprinting/multiplying.
Cheers.
- FredMcWoozy0
Just do the CMYK mix, no?
- FredMcWoozy0
I think if you copy and paste the 'art' from indesign into illustrator it will add your custom swatches too.
- Zenith_Kudos0
Thanks Fred. It needs to be two colour and I don’t really want to just make the artwork, say Magenta and Cyan just for print purposes (time factor, and I don’t want the client to freak out). Illustrator loses the plot when I paste the object in from InDesign and just refuses to acknowledge its existence. It add the two spot swatches, but says the object is coloured as white fill, black stroke.
- FredMcWoozy0
dig around in here Zenith
- Zenith_Kudos0
Thanks dude, that looks to be the workaround.
- inkpink0
you could add 2 fills to the object in the appearance panel... tint and overprint.
but not sure if/how that will sep as spots for press... do all appearance attributes need to be flattened?
- inkpink0
i just tried the double fill in appearance and i don't think it'll work without using multiply effect (which defeats spot).
even with overprint applied to each fill, when you check oevrprint preview, the colors do not mix.
much safer to duplicate object ontop of each other and overprint tints.
- Zenith_Kudos0
I’m using the 2 fills in the appearance panel and placing elements in InDesign. This seems to be working. I hope.
- You can do it zenith. I was never good with overlays just a lot of photoshopping.FredMcWoozy