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• • December 2, 2009 at 11:48 pm #54086
    kjgEnergy

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    G'day all,

    1. Client has provided print ready PDF.

    2. I only want to send the SPOT UV VARNISH plate to our supplier (not the rest of the artwork)

    3. Can I turn off all the other plates and somehow do a 'save as' from there?

    4. Or, do I have to go through Illustrator and run the risk of something going wrong?

    5. If I can save via the PDF can I then also make an eps from there.

    Any assistance with this would be great, thanks bucket loads in advance.

  • December 2, 2009 at 11:52 pm #54087
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Anne-Marie just told me about a great method for doing this… but I've already forgotten it! With luck she'll chime in here later tonight or tomorrow.

  • December 2, 2009 at 11:59 pm #54088
    kjgEnergy

    Member

    Thanks David.

  • December 3, 2009 at 11:49 am #54099
    Colin Flashman

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    i have this drama all the time when i'm sending pdfs to suppliers with older RIPs (i.e. they can't take my imposed file from my RIP which contains my spot colours such as diecut, score, spot uv varnish, foil, emboss, etc). its a nusiance and i wish they'd upgrade their RIPs, but until that time this is what i do:

    1) take the pdf into indesign. if its one page just go file, place. if its several pages or an entire book worth of spot varnishes, use the multipageimporter2.2.1 which is available from https://creativepro.com…..downloads/

    2) go file, print. prepare the appropriate page size and marks as normal, but make sure that the file is prepared as separations and only select the separation you want to send the supplier. i normally print to a ps file and then distill this with acrobat distiller.

    this is normally all i need to do BUT if i get a supplier who THEN says “all text has to be converted to curves” (man i hate it when they ask that – grrr), THEN i take the pdf into illustrator and convert all text to paths and save out as an eps.

    IMHO this is a nusiance because each time i have to take additional steps in preparing for these suppliers' draconian specs, i stand a very good chance of destroying the digital integrity of the file, and make it more likely to accidentally foul up the artwork. i put it this way: any supplier which CAN accept files which DON'T have to be set up as black/converted to curves etc… will receive more of our business.

  • December 4, 2009 at 2:53 am #54131
    kjgEnergy

    Member

    Colin, I've just tried your technique and it works a treat. I though to myself when I read your post “oh yeah that makes sense, why didn't I think of that.) I have now named the technique appropriately as the “CC” aka Colin Converter.

    I really appreciate your help, thanks mate.

    Cheers

    kj

  • December 4, 2009 at 4:22 am #54132
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

    Member

    Hey Colin thanks for posting that! But let's not tell anyone from the Acrobat team what we're discussing here, otherwise they'll blow a gasket. ;-) What? EPS! Distill a PostScript file! Open in Illustrator! Ack!

    The trick that I'm going to write up somewhere (that one that David referred to) was arrived at with the help of Leonard Rosenthal, one of the main Acrobat gurus at Adobe. Using Acrobat's own preflight tools he showed me how you can isolate a spot color into its own PDF layer, even if the original PDF has only one layer. (A client needed to do this routinely.)

    But it's complicated and actually has little to do with InDesign …

    AM

  • December 4, 2009 at 8:44 am #54133
    Tim Hughes

    Member

    @Anne Marie This does sound interesting – I would love to know how!!!

    pdf fixups I am guessing

  • December 6, 2009 at 10:18 pm #54152
    kjgEnergy

    Member

    Thanks Anne-Marie. I will wait for the post, very interesting for me working in prepress. This method would feel safer for me as opposed to the gasket blowing techniques that I know.

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