Adobe Illustrator: Neon Pantone to CMYK Conversion

So I am working with a client who is going to be making keychains. She wants neon colors, so in Illustrator, I used the Pantone colors 801-814 which are supposed to be neon. I know that those will not show up accurately on the computer screen (They show up pastel-looking). I wanted to convert the colors to CMYK so that she can print it out and see a close comparison. But when I converted it to CMYK, it stayed that same dull/pastel color--both on the computer screen and when I printed it. My confusion is that I thought when you convert Pantone to CMYK it's supposed to convert to a color closest to the actual Pantone and not what you see on screen, yet that is exactly what I got when i printed the converted CMYK.

sgchun,
You can hardly get further away from the CMYK gamut (the range of colours obtainable with CMYK inks) than neon colours.

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Why is illustrator converting pantone to CMYK/paler colors?

Hello,
I have been working on the graphic design of a tin top for some time now, and just now came across this problem this morning. I have been working entirely in RGB since I began so that I could utilize a full range of colors. Recently, I found out that the company that is manufacturing the tin is able to print in Pantone solid coated. I then decided to convert the tin design to RGB colors that match colors in the Pantone solid coated color book. This worked for quite some time without any problem; i was able to design the tin using a vibrant green, red, orange, and purple. This morning, I went to save my most recent document - i have created multiple documents using the same colors with slight design variations - and the only thing that was different about this document was that the red tone i used came directly from the pantone solid coated color swatch palette. When i went to save the document, a message came up that read "when spot colors are used with transparency, changing them to process colors outside of illustrator can generate unexpected results." After that, i don't know what happened. Aside from the original design, which has the vibrant green, i am unable to duplicate the green using the color palette. It automatically converts to a paler, ugly green. As with CMYK, there now many shades that I cannot seem to use because the shade is deemed 'out of gamut'. This problem seems to apply to many of the colors i have been using, primarily green tones. I have checked, and all my color settings are still RGB, even though the color palette seems to be acting as though it is in CMYK. When i select the vibrant green using the eyedropper, it immediately appears paler when i try to access it from the color picker. Also, whenever i save my current tin... the one that still appears with the vibrant green in illustrator... it appears as the paler green as a jpeg and pdf (unless i look at the file in acrobat pro, then the vibrant green is retained.) I don't know what is going on, and am wondering how to get back to my old settings so that I can work with a full range of colors. What surprised me was that I haven't run into this problem before and I have been working with these colors for many weeks... It is also putting these restrictions on all my older documents as well as newly created ones. Any advice would be much appreciated...
Thanks!

I will clarify by taking some screenshots...
Shot 1: This is what the tin should look like, and has looked like as I have been working with it. All the colors are RGB colors. Notice that the green of the tin is the same green that appears in the lower left of the screen on the menu. It is R102 G189 B41.
Shot 2: Now, when I double click on the color picker while it is still in the exact same color as shot 2, you will notice that the color picker immediately identifies it as a darker, paler green, even though it claims the RGB value is still R102 G189 B41.
Notice that the green in the little circle is the same green on the tin, while the green in the two boxes by 'OK' and 'Cancel' are the different green... the same way that Illustrator converts color to the nearest CMYK value. Because I am in RGB, i don't understand why this value is changed.
Shot 3: Now, when i save the file as a jpeg or pdf, when i view the jpeg on my computer or as a pdf in adobe acrobat pro, the green appears at it should. However, when i view either the pdf or the jpeg on another computer, it appears as the altered green.
Hope this helps clarify the problem... Another interesting thing i noticed... The pantone color 368c looks different according to illustrator than it does for photoshop. In photoshop, it is considered the exact same vibrant green as my tin, while in illustrator it is much closer to the green in shot 3. Do you know what accounts for this difference?

Illustrations in Pantone to CMYK

Hi guys,
The designer sent me a couple of illustrations with many details all in Pantone colors. It is kind of a pain to convert one by one to CMYK. Here is a sample
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=17Sx5f0rxPvgN1aP0HUfwiFRqiqY80
Do i have to convert each of the colors to CMYK in order to print it? Is not going to be Offsett or Spot colors, just a regular fast color printer like Kinkos in order to test it.
Thanks for any info.
Cheers,
Sebs

For digital printing, don’t bother. All colours will output as process using either the CMYK values in the swatches or (possibly better) Pantone tables build into the printer.

Pantone solid to process conversion using Adobe Illustrator CS5

Hello everyone.
I´m having a little problem converting a solid color to process using the Adobe Swatch Libraries.
I own a Pantone Color Bridge Coated and Uncoated set books and I chose the color 3262 C for a client of mine.
On the book the equivalent process color for this solid one is C 76 M 0 Y 38 K 0.
But, when I select the same solid color on Adobe Illustrator, and I ask to convert to process, the software is giving me different CMYK coordinates. The software is showing the "correct" process color equivalent to 3626 C is C 78 M 0 Y 32 K 0.
Ok, now my questions:
- Which one I should consider as the most accurate solid to process conversion? The book or the Adobe conversion?
- Maybe my Adobe Illustrator is not updated? I downloaded the digital Libraries from Pantone web site and I´m still getting this mismatch.
- Maybe the book is not updated ? I just bought the "Pantone Plus Series" this week - it´s the most update book of Pantone!).
Thanks in advance for your help!

Well, I think I found my answer. And it´s easier than I thought.
I contacted the Pantone suport and they just realize I was talking about other book.
I have the Pantone Color Bridge Books. But not the standard ones. I have the Plus Series (with the green cover). This is the most updated books from Pantone.
The Plus Series has different CMYK equivalents, because in this edition they unified the European and the North American CYMK standards.
And of course, because of that, the Adobe swatches libraries was outdated.
Then I just downloaded the new PANTONE PLUS Digital Libraries for Adobe on Pantone´s web site. Now I can pick the right color, just selecting the Pantone+ in the swatches libraries. Here is the link: http://www.pantone.com/pages/Pantone/Pantone.aspx?pg=20721 (you have to be a registered member to download it).
Now I have the same both CMYK coordinates from the book and from the Adobe conversion.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help!

Adobe Illustrator is showing CMYK in spot color document

Hi,
I created a PDF using Adobe Illustrator CS4, and although I am only using 2 spot colors, both, Illustrator and Acrobat are showing CMYK plates in the Separations Preview and Output Preview. When I turn off the Spot plates, there is nothing in the document. Could you please help me figure out why is this happenning?
Thanks

Every file has CMYK plates in Illustrator or Acrobat. I think you are over-thinking things.
The important issue is:
Are there any items actually on the plates??
Just because there are plates, does not mean those plates contain artwork. Both Illustrator and Acrobat Pro will always indicate CMYK plates, but if there is no CMYK data, they won't print.

Spot-to-CMYK conversion: Pantone vs. ID

I know this is not a new issue, and was discussed here, but more from the point of view of the visual aspect of colors on one's screen.
I'm baffled as to the conversion of spot colors for printing purposes (sheet-fed).... My client wants me to use PMS 322c in a CMYK job, and she's been always very picky about colors and the way they print. The difference in the conversion formulas between ID and using Pantone's website -- is striking.... See how ID has a significant amount of M, yet low K, while Panton suggests ZERO M and lots of K.... So I'm asking, WHO CAN I TRUST???....

Part of the “problem” is that of how you actually represent the Pantone spot colors. Yes, Pantone provide CMYK equivalent values, but in exactly what CMYK color space? According to what I have been told by Pantone, those CMYK values are nominally SWOP.
You didn't indicate what your full workflow looks like, but the most reliable method of dealing with spot colors, whether used as real spot colors (i.e., you actually have those spot color inks at the press) or you are simulating them, is to pass through the spot color information in the PDF file exported from InDesign or at least as LAB colors otherwise. Preferably, you are using a PDF/X-4 workflow.
Bring in the swatch at follows:
The swatch will then look like:
When you export PDF, you have two choices. If you are actually printing spot color or if you don't know whether real spot color inks are available, set the Ink Manager as follows:
In this case, the RIP will use the spot color if available or if not, it will convert Pantone's more precise LAB color values specified as the “alternate color space” to the press' CMYK color space.
If you know that the press definitely won't have the spot colors, set the Ink Manager as follows:
On PDF export, all references to PANTONE 322 C will be output to the PDF with the exact LAB color values which your RIP will convert to CMYK and no references to the spot color at all.
This is the method getting precisely what Pantone defines for the spot colors and how they will look in process color.
Note that many Pantone spot colors cannot precisely be matched in process color simply because such colors are outside the gamut of whatever process CMYK color space your printing workflow supports.
- Dov

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I have downloaded trial version of adobe illustrator CC.
I am importing .emf file into adobe illustrator CC. it loads an emf file properly with its content but my emf file contains some lines(--------) also..imported emf file doesn't show any line.
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My Adobe Illustrator is CS6 and it corrupts the file if I save it using accents. How do I fix this?
I mean, if I save a file called "crachá" I'm using an accent on "a" so it showed as "á" but if I do this Illustrator says the following error:
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As for the resolution problem: upsampling an image doesn't improve its quality, because there's simply not enough information there.
As for the warning you get: it's most likely caused by RGB color mode or by placed RGB content that interacts with other content in the file (e.g. because you applied transparency)
In English it's this one:
As far as I see it there's no alternative to learning the basics of printing, color management and transparency. This is nothing that can be done by some forum posts.
Printing:
http://rufus.deuchler.net/2011/06/adobe-publishes-a-new-creative-suite-555-printing-guide. html
You need to understand what's happening on conversion of RGB to CMYK color space, which will happen when printing to offset presses. When you print on office printers, something else happens and all kinds of color may come out, because these machines sometimes do their own color correction and everything depends on how you set up the machine.
Provided you check the PDF in Acrobat: you need to set up color management there as well. This might lead to the differences (greenish) you're seeing.
Find a good book on color management and read the manual:
Creative Suite * Understanding color management (there's more about the subject)
As for transparency:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/asn/en/print_resource_center/Transparency-DesignGuide.pdf
http://partners.adobe.com/public/asn/en/print_resource_center/TXPGuide.pdf
Before sending files to a print service provider you need to get information on how they need the file. Most providers won't accept PDFs generated with "No color conversion". Or they won't guarantee for the output.
What you see on your monitor won't necessarily match the printed result unless your system is correctly calibrated and color management set up. And even then there might be differences.
Can't you contact this former colleague, pay him an amount of money and let him teach you the tools of the trade?

Global color values differ between palettes and when converted (Adobe Illustrator)

I have a swatch file with a bunch of global colors inside. When converting the global color to editable RBG in the Color palette, the values are correct. However, if I use the Eyedropper and sample the color, then double-click the boxes in the Tool Palette or Color Palette, the values are completely different. When the colors don't have the 'global' setting checked this doesn't happen. Does anyone know why?
A lot of people are going to use this swatch file, and likely will use Eyedropper to select like colors, and with some peoples' workflow it's likely these incorrect values will creep in.

philwiles wrote:
... my eps logo ..
Why are you using EPS? It is kind of outdated format these days.
EPS does not support color profiles. The default Save as EPS options in Illustrator include CMYK conversion which changes the values. To avoid this uncheck "Include CMYK Post Script" in the save options. Then when you open the file in Photoshop the RGB values will be the same and if you want it displayed the same, in Photoshop choose Edit > Assign Profile and choose the same profile - Adobe RGB in your case. The color settings in Photoshop will have no effect and can remain unchanged.
If you do that using the same computer the colors will be identical in values and appearance. If you do it on different computers the values will be the same and the color appearance will depend on if both computers have been calibrated to display colors accurately.

Open Source equivalent to Adobe Illustrator?

What is the best Open Source equivalent to Adobe Illustrator?
(or closest equivalent)
This may be a matter of personal preference but could anyone share their thoughts or opinions?
Thank you,

I took Inkscape for a test drive in order to compare it to Adobe Illustrator. Here are my comments I would like to share with this newsgroup. Generally and professionally, I prefer Adobe Illustrator over Inkscape because Illustrator is a more responsive program - faster during some key drawing procedures, however Inkscape should not be ignored as it is available for no cost and is very capable and sufficient as a drawing tool. I was impressed with Inkscape - except for its typesetting features, its lack of being able to use spot colours and its limited PDF export options.
I hardly touched all the Inkscape features in this review - only a few main features which seemed to work sufficiently.
This review is written for someone looking for a vector drawing program to learn and use who may not have a lot of experience with a professional drawings programs such as Adobe Illustrator and who may be looking for a no-cost alternative that is sufficiently acceptable.
Inkscape 0.46
www.inkscape.org
Review by Mike
platform: mac computer on OS 10.4
March 2009
Generally, a very capable and extremely useful program - especially considering there is no cost. Under the "Help" menu, is a link to the online manual which you can download too - but I just read that parts I needed online.
I found the info I was looking for a few days ago when I first tried the program. Initially, I couldn't find a way to convert a point from a smooth point to a corner point. I found this feature in the menu bar. When you use the "edit path my node" tool (second tool in the tool box) you can make this choice (corner or smooth point) from a row of icons along the top of the document window - very obvious but I didn't see that at first. Its a good feature to know to manipulate your shapes to exactly as you would like. With this ability, you can choose to convert your point to a corner point or a smooth point - important to being able to draw any shape you like.
You can also adjust the bezier curve angle on the fly (while you draw) (see last point [1] at the end of this review) by holding down the shift key or the control key but that would depend on how much users would want to practice this program. The main thing is, that it can be done - just like in Illustrator. Illustrator users would just have to remember a few different key stroke patterns while drawing.
Doesn't seem to be much this program can't do, except for spot colour capability. Compared to Illustrator, I would be curious to know if there was anything critical you can do in Illustrator that you cannot do in Inkscape. Typesetting in Inkscape isn't so great but generally the program is sufficient.
Here are four main points:
1. Inkscape doesn't have spot colour capability
This is probably the biggest disadvantage of Inkscape for professionals. For commercial artists, printing spot colour is a critical capability which enables such things as specifying a pantone colour to a printer. However, for web pages and CMYK artwork, Inkscape is sufficient because web page art is all RGB in colour (no spot colours are used in web page art).
2. No PDF export options.
Inkscape's PDF export features seem to be limited and do not give you many options such as compression options. That is probably the second most noted limitation of Inkscape for professional artists. There may be a work around however. If you export the drawing as postscript and open it in Adobe Acrobat Professional you could set these options here instead. But then you would need to buy Adobe Acrobat Professional - but which is a very useful program - one that is indispensable for managing pdf files quickly. "Web Capture" is one of my favourite features of Adobe Acrobat Professional - can save a website or a web page to pdf for archival purposes. Merging several PDF's into a single document is also a good feature of Adobe Acrobat Professional for general purpose file management.
3. Inkscape is slower than Illustrator. Some Inkscape features are OK but others are slower.
But that might not be a fair comparison because I am testing Inkscape on my ten-year-old 350 MHz Mac G3. But then again, I am also using Illustrator on this same G3 and Illustrator is very fast. I wonder how fast Inkscape would feel on a newer mac?
Overall, these speed issues may not be relevant because for most projects and drawing tasks Inkscape is fast enough.
The slowest feature of Inkscape I find is selecting a typeface if you are setting any type in your document. It takes too long to scroll down your selection of fonts. Could be my computer - or could be Inkscape ot something to do with the fact I have many fonts - but they are all managed by fontbook. I am not sure why selecting a type face seems to take so long to scroll through the list of fonts.
4. Inkscape struggles with type setting.
Typesetting in Inkscape is slow. The critical problem with Inkscape type is that the type in the final Inkscape document (which is natively in the .svg format) will not open in Illustrator. This is not good. I am not sure why and I may possibly be doing something wrong - but I tried this in many ways and there appears to be a problem with the way Inkscape saves type - maybe its just certain fonts (non-type-1?) - not sure. Any Inkscape documents will open in Illustrator but the type will appear in a large black box - major problem. Obviously there is a font translation problem with the way Inkscape saves blocks of type. The solution is to not expect type to work between these two programs (between Inkscape and Illustrator) - but often you don't need to transfer your files between Inkscape and Illustrator and so for these projects this may not be a problem. Another solution is at the final stage of your drawing in Inkscape, convert all the type (if there is any type)to paths ("convert to path" feature) - but this procedure is irreversible - so save a copy of your document first with the fonts not converted to outline. I am sure newer versions of Inkscape will correct this problem eventually. I think there is future hope for Inkscape on this issue.
Here are some other general points I noticed about Inkscape:
The pattern tool (good for wallpaper):
For fun, I tried the pattern tool to try and design a wallpaper pattern. Its pretty cool. You can turn any objects you draw into a wallpaper pattern.
Another way to do wallpaper is to just manually copy and paste in a repeated manner offset by the length of your object until you have enough copies to make a full piece of wallpaper - but that takes longer than simply using the pattern tool.
However, the best tool for generating patterns for wallpaper is probably this tiling feature:
tiling:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles.html
I wouldn't bother reading the whole manual - just the parts you might need to reference while working on a project. The bezier curve section in the manual is good to read:
bezier curves:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Creating.html
As mentioned on that page, paths can be created using three ways:
1. the Freehand tool
2. the Bezier
3. the Calligraphy tool
My favourite is the bezier tool. It offers precise control.
The other tools are good too (and probably fun to use) but for precise drawing, I like the Bezier tool myself.
Other users might prefer the other drawing tools (Freehand tool or Calligraphy tool) for faster stroke creation and faster line effects.
Once you draw a shape and close it (click on the first endpoint when placing the last endpoint) (I always recommend closing a shape - but you don't have to) then you can colour the shape any colour you would like or with a shaded gradient or even make it transparent to any degree and overlay it on top of other shapes. Lots of control to do some pretty creative stuff.
I would also recommend organizing your drawing into layers. If...(continued on next post...)

RAL colours colors to CMYK conversion

I already posted times ago the request for a colour book integration into Illustrator for the missing RAL colours.
I don't know in the US, nut in Europe it's widely used, and every colour shop has RAL colours.
Therofore for those people, and me too :-), if you need a conversion you can use this link
http://www.centromedia.com/download/ral-colors.pdf

Real professionals knows that RAL colours are used in painting. can't you immagine how to use them in Illustrator? How bad.
Gernot Hoffmann and Jacob Bugge can't you immagine how to use a RAL colour book to print printingplants or simply a draft copy on paper?
Why don't you ask Adobe to delete Pantone Metal colors ? Gernot Hoffmann don't metal colours exceed RGB working spaces ?
It's a useful add-on for every professional, if you don't need it don't use it.
Make a contructive forum and add useful info's instead saying a colour book isn't useful in a painting-design program.

Adobe illustrator CS scriptsing problem.

So i dived into AppleScripting because I have a few hundred stills I ran a Live Trace Batch on. But since Bridge does not allow you to change the Art Board properties before the batch. I need to program a script that can go in and change the Art Board properties. I was hoping to use Automator with Applescript to Batch resize all my stills. So far this is what I have written for the Applescript.
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
set properties to {width:640, height:480}
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I thought this would be straight up easy but i got an error.
set properties to {width:640, height:480}
"Adobe Illustrator CS2 got an error: Can't set properties to {width:640, height:480}."
So it seems I can't set the properties on the art board. Any suggestions or clues or anything would be extremely helpful.
I would also like to add that I wrote a script to make a new document.
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
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Which works fine. What I don't understand is why it wont change the Artboard properties of an existing document that I have opened with my first script.

Document page size and colour mode are 2 features that I have submitted a request to be changed from read only properties with adobe hopefully it may make a future release of this application. For the time being my work around has been to use some UI scripting. I don't know if this will be of any use to you but you could give these a try.
tell application "Illustrator CS"
activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Illustrator CS"
key down command
key down option
keystroke "p"
key up command
key up option
delay 1
keystroke tab
keystroke "300" --Your measurements in ruler units… not points as the rest of illustrator scripting
keystroke tab
keystroke "300" --Your measurements in ruler units… not points as the rest of illustrator scripting
keystroke return
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end tell
end tell
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activate
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tell docRef
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tell application "System Events"
tell process "Illustrator CS"
tell menu bar 1
click menu item "CMYK Color" of menu "Document Color Mode" of menu item "Document Color Mode" of menu "File"
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end tell
end tell
end if
end tell
end tell
--

"This is an Adobe Illustrator file that was save without PDf content."

I have a client that has been working on a file in AI CS, never left his machine, but when he went to open it today he gets a message that says this file "was generated by a newer version of Illustrator. Would you like to import this file? Some data loss may occur".
And when we click the "Import" button, we then get:
"This is an Adobe® Illustrator® file that was saved without PDF content. To place or open this file in other applications, it should be re-saved from Adobe Illustrator with the "Create PDF Compatible File" options turned on. This option is in the Illustrator Native Format Options dialog box, which appears when saving an Adobe Illustrator file using the Save As command."
However, even though this was created in AI CS, all other machine and all other versions of AI (even CS3, 3.3, 2, etc..) we get the same exact error message. How it can be newer than CS 3.3 when it was created in CS is strange to begin with.
I assume this is some sort of corruption, but was wondering if there were any cures. It seems our backups have backed up this file in it's current state (corrupt), which is a huge issue at this point.
Thank you very much for any help!

I have sometimes had this trouble since I updated Acrobat.
"This is an Adobe® Illustrator® file that was saved without PDF content ..."
Not sure what's wrong - it seems to happen even though the Illy file is saved with PDF content and everything embedded.
Another thing: When viewing pdfs under Advanced>Print Production>Output Preview I repeatedly get an RGB simulation preview even though I know that the file is CMYK. So I have to choose a CMYK simulation preview and then things look o.k.
Is there any way to stop the RGB preview coming up? I note that Convert Colours messes things up completely, so it's only the preview that's wrong.
Any ideas, Wade?

Illustrator with pantone colour can't show up

I am make some graphic in the Adobe Illustrator CC. I use the graphic with pantone colour and after that i save in the PDF.
Pdf files made in Illustrator have a problem being displayed on mac computers during the preview when the colors are Pantone colors and will show up as black and white.
I don't know what's the problem...

I have attached a screen shot of what I am referring to. The second one is the box that pops up after clicking on Enter/Submit on a Company page for Contests or even connect to Facebook through any website.

Adobe Illustrator save as PDF

I'm not exactly sure where my new problem lies. I'm trying to save out single page PDFs from an Illustrator CS4 document with multiple artboards. Each artboard should become a PDF. I can get a multi page PDF, but when it saves single page files, I get white PDFs with error messages on them (I think it is saving .ai files with a .pdf extension).
this is where I am now (simplified, of course):
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
set docName to name of current document
set itemNumber to 1
tell application "Finder" to set fileLoc to path to desktop as string
set pageCount to (count artboards in document docName)
tell current document
set allPlacedItems to placed items
repeat with h from 1 to (count of allPlacedItems)
set thisPlacedItem to item h of allPlacedItems
tell thisPlacedItem to embed
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set allTextItems to text frames
repeat with j from 1 to (count of allTextItems)
set thisTextItem to item j of allTextItems
tell thisTextItem to convert to paths
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repeat with i from 1 to pageCount
set pdfSaveOptions to {class:PDF save options, pdfXstandard:PDFX None, compatibility:Acrobat 6, preserve editability:false, generate thumbnails:false, optimization:false, acrobat layers:false, artboard range:i, view pdf:false, color downsampling:0, color resample:nodownsample, color compression:none, grayscale downsampling:0, grayscale resample:nodownsample, grayscale compression:none, monochrome downsampling:0, monochrome resample:nodownsample, monochrome compression:none, compress art:false, trim marks:false, registration marks:false, color bars:false, page info:false, page marks style:Roman, trim mark weight:trimmarkweight025, offset:6.0, bleed link:true, bleed offset:{0, 0, 0, 0}, color conversion id:none, color destination id:none, color profile id:include all profiles, trapped:false, font subset threshold:50.0}
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set destFile to (fileLoc & pdfName) as string
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close current document without saving
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Hi Stephen,
The problem is that the input for the page range is text (even if it is just one number). You're trying to put in a Number (the i you get from the loop). You'll need to convert the number to a string, probably by using the "as text" command.
What I use is (simplified): first check for multiple art boards (and set the range as text), if there is only one set the multiple artboards option to false, else set the page range. You don't have to build a loop to export each artboard seperately.
tell document 1
if (count of artboards) > 1 then
set pagina_bereik to "1-" & ((count of artboards) as text)
else
set pagina_bereik to "1"
end if
end tell
if pagina_bereik = "1" then
save document 1 in file DestFIle as eps with options {class:EPS save options, preview:color TIFF, embed all fonts:true, embed linked files:true, include document thumbnails:true, PostScript:level 2, save multiple artboards:false}
else
save document 1 in file DestFIle as eps with options {class:EPS save options, preview:color TIFF, embed all fonts:true, embed linked files:true, include document thumbnails:true, PostScript:level 2, save multiple artboards:true, artboard range:pagina_bereik}
end if
Hope this helps,
Ton

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