[XeTeX] spotcolor.sty and XeLaTeX

[William Adams]

On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Brian C. Ladd wrote:

> (b) If anyone out there either knows of a better way to get PDF/X3  
> separations
> or can tell me that I am on the wrong track, please, let me know. I  
> am beating
> my head against things I don't understand at this point so any  
> pointers are
> appreciated (assume I am very ignorant of PDF's inner workings and  
> you will be
> right).

If possible, you could create all of the spot colour elements using a  
tool such as Adobe Illustrator which does allow spot colours, then  
place those using xelatex, then you'd just need to set everything in  
xelatex to be black or a tint of grey --- you could integrate w/ the  
spot colour elements by placing white over them and knocking them out  
to set text on them.

Or use the old printer's trick of mapping one of the plates (usually  
cyan or magenta) to a spot colour plate.

It'd be easier to help you if we had all the specifics up-front.

William


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William Adams
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Fry Communications
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