Reply To: Can I save a specified plate from an existing PDF

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 …

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