[pdftex] Two-color printing with pdftex

[Taco Hoekwater]

On 11/21/2010 11:45 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
> Sure, this is more or less Taco's approach.  Taco is using a primary
> color (cmyk 1 0 0 0) and tells the printer "replace Cyan by PANTONE384PC".
>
> The spotcolor package does a bit more.  It uses PDF features in order
> to define spot colors.  In this case a spot color can be separated by
> name (PANTONE384PC) instead of by value (0.18 0 1 0.31).

A similar approach is possible in ConTeXt, but the number of print shops
that know how to handle spot color separations properly is worryingly
low.

Best wishes,
Taco