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Cannot Edit a pantone color in illustrator

Aug 9, 2012 12:24 PM

Has anyone encountered the problem of not being ablw to edit a pantone color in illustrator? I'm trying to switch it to process CMYK and the top portion of the editing box is ghosted out.

Solution?

Thanks !!

Ron

577 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: Marko_R, Aug 10, 2012 5:12 PM
 
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  • [scott w]
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    1. [scott w],
    Aug 9, 2012 12:27 PM   in reply to Marko_R
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    Seems to work fine here.

     

    Define "Editing box"

     
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    2. Marko_R,
    Aug 9, 2012 12:35 PM   in reply to [scott w]
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    Sorry - "Swatch Options" box.

    2 Pantone colors are "Un-Editable" - Swatch Name and Color type are ghosted.

     
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    3. John Danek,
    Aug 9, 2012 6:43 PM   in reply to Marko_R
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    You need to have the swatch palette open > click on the element that uses one of the Pantone colors > the swatch should be highlighted in your swatch palette, panel, whatever > you should see the CMYK triangular square in the palette > click on the CMYK icon to convert the color to process > should show up as a new swatch, if not, just drag it to the swatch palette.

     
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    4. Marko_R,
    Aug 10, 2012 5:12 PM   in reply to John Danek
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    Thanks a lot for the info - turns out it was an added spot color in photoshop - so once I merged the spot color channel into cmyk and re opened it in illustrator it worked!

    Thanks again

     
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