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• • August 29, 2018 at 11:46 am #110145
    J R

    Member

    Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows if I can assign different color values to a document based on whether or not I want the document to be in CMYK or RGB. My company uses a vibrant blue in RGB that doesn’t have a close visual match in CMYK. Because of this, we wind up creating two versions of the same document so we can assign the correct colors to each. For example, we may have an infographic that we expect will mostly be viewed on a computer screen, but occasionally will be placed in a workbook, we have to create two separate files so that the colors will look okay. Is there a way, when outputting the file to essentially replace a CMYK value with a specific RGB value (or the other way around) so that we don’t have duplicate documents but with different color specs?

    Specific colors in question:
    RGB: 12 42 250
    CMYK: 87 75 0 0

    I hope this question makes sense. :-)

  • August 29, 2018 at 12:17 pm #110148
    David Blatner

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    Interesting idea. Perhaps you could make 2 spot colors:
    “blue rgb”
    and “blue cmyk”
    The blue RGB would be a spot color specced with RGB colors; the cmyk blue would be a blue specced with CMYK colors. You’d assign RGB blue to everything. But when you want it to export using CMYK, you would use the Ink Alias (in the Ink Manager) feature to alias the blueRGB to blueCMYK… and then set the blueCMYK to separate to CMYK.

    More here:
    https://creativepro.com/alias-one-color-swatch-to-another.php

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