Re: Spot colors

Thomas Brodhead wrote:
A number of people have asked me how to create "spot colors" in PostScript.
I'm only aware of the setrgbcolor and setcmykcolor operators; how would
"spot colors" be created with these operators (or another operator)?

Many thanks,
--Tom




/CustomColorTint .5 def

[/Separation (PANTONE 7467 C) /DeviceCMYK {
dup 0.74 mul exch
dup 0.00 mul exch
dup 0.26 mul exch
0.00 mul} ]
setcolorspace CustomColorTint setcolor

This will use a Pantone "spot" color if available, otherwise it will use the CMYK values. See section 4.8 in the Postscript Language Reference for more detailed info.

Jeff Coffield
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