Add a "Mixed Ink" swatch like in InDesign

The new separations palette in Illustrator CS4 is a strong move in the right direction for designers and print production, but having the ability to add a Multi-Ink to your swatches like you can in InDesign would be even better. As a printing company, we often do double hits of spot inks and CMYK mixes under spot inks for special effects. These are very easy to do using Mixed Inks in InDesign, but in Illustrator we have to duplicate objects and set them to overprint each other.
Also, an Ink Manager similar to InDesign would be great too.

I agree! It will also minimize the errors especially that there's a tendency to forget setting the overprint in the spot color.
There are lot of medical/scientific Journals that requires a lot of mixed ink swatches not only in the layout but also in individual artworks.
It opens the possibilities for creativity combining appearance palette, mixed ink swatches, and graphic styles.
I also noticed that novice users of Illustrators have apprehensions using the appearance palette. They'd rather duplicate the object and apply overprint which results to error-prone files.
Since this feature is already available in InDesign, I hope there should be little compatibility issue when linking the artwork in the layout even in lower versions of InDesign.
I hope that the Illustrator development team consider this small request...

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Hi,
I want to be able to make mixed inkt swatches from an applescript.
Can anyone help to correct or this script?
Tnx
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
tell document 1
set mylist to {"Process Cyan, Process Magenta, Process Yellow, Process Black, Orange, Green"}
set myvalue to {"10, 10, 10, 10, 10"}
set myColor to make color with properties {name:"color_1", space:MixedInk, ink list:mylist, ink percentages:myvalue}
end tell
end tell

Try this:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
tell document 1
set mylist to {ink "Process Cyan", ink "Process Magenta", ink "Process Yellow", ink "Process Black", ink "Green", ink "Orange"}
set myvalue to {10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10}
set myColor to make mixed ink with properties {name:"color_1", model:mixedinkmodel, space:MixedInk, ink list:mylist, ink percentages:myvalue}
end tell
end tell
Shane Stanley <[email protected]>
AppleScript Pro, April 2010, Florida <http://www.applescriptpro.com>

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Many thanks!
Jessica W.

Here's a little trick that may not even require a third party plugin
On the Master Page
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Alignment make it away from spine (so it's always way out to the right or left)
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duplicate the frame and put it on the other side too.
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I have a mixed ink color consisting of Process Cyan (79%) and a spot color that I created (53%).
I'm trying to convert it to CMYK using IColorSystemUtils::ColorTransform(), but that just causes a crash (in CS3, CS4, and CS5).
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Can anyone help? I recently inherited this code and I'd like to make it work. Thanks.
Bob

You can try exporting selections as excel workbook and check
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I am trying to find out how to embed a mixed ink image into Illustrator (multiple spot colors) and not get single images once it's placed. So far I've only been able to do it with DCS 2.0 files which can only be linked, not embedded. I have been successful with saving PSD files and deleting all of the layer artwork, just keeping the channels, however when I embed that file it converts it into single images of each spot channel and not a mixed ink image. Basically what I'm looking for is when you look up at the top left bar when you have the image selected it should say embedded: mix ink image PPI: 300 or something like that. Instead I've only been able to get single image to show up. Does anyone know what format is required to get that? Thank you.

CS6 for both.
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I know this is possible as I have a file that does this exact same thing I'm talking about and lists the art as a mixed ink image, however I do not know how it was does done as it does not tell me what the format was or how it was created. I've tried numerous formats in photoshop to try and replicate it, but have come up short. That is why I posted here. If someone knows I would be very grateful.
Here is what I'm trying to recreate:
http://img4.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/17911/1791123643792235d8ef3ec0d0ec51b1be1f3151.jpg
but this is what I keep getting:
http://img3.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/17911/179112359b299d33a43698baebeaa7cb1342402a.jpg
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PS I tried to unembed the mixed ink image and it alters the artwork to no longer look correct.

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Hi!
In Illustrator CS3, is there stroke type options and object corner options like in Indesign?
Thanks!
Chris.

No.
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Thank you Peter. Someone else must have been on my computer because I do not change the settings. You pointed me in the right direction.
Thanks again.
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I want to find out:
What software is used to develop complex programs like 'Adobe InDesign'?
Thanks.

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as the subject is ??
is there a freeware program where i can like mix two songs like a dj and do cool stuff.

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My client uses a custom PMS ink mix. How can I make a spot color swatch in Illustrator that shows the color and client name?

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Add web colors as swatches

I'm working in Freehand 11 and I would like to add a web
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managed
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darrel wrote:
>> I'm working in Freehand 11 and I would like to add a
web color (#b0d3d7)
>> to my
>> swatches palette. When I add it as an RGB color, it
is slightly off. And
>> if I
>> go to the paint bucket color in my tools palette, it
won't allow me to
>> type in
>> the 6-digit web color. Is there something I'm
missing? It seems like it
>> would
>> be pretty simple.
>
> #b0d3d7 is just RGB values written in hex code. You just
need to translate
> that into RGB values and input that into Freehand.
>
> Google should turn up a number of translators for your.
Here's one:
>
>
http://www.javascripter.net/faq/hextorgb.htm
>
> -Darrel
>
>

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