Bitmap with spot colours export to PS. How?

Hello
I`ve Ai document with many objects. One of them is embedded image which is made from spot colours.
How to export it from Illustrator to Photoshop with these spot colours for further edit.
Menu->export->*.psd,*.tiff and others wont work.
Photoshop always converts it to CMYK.
Thanks for any help.

The Export to PSD does not support spot color and Photoshop cannot open AI document and preserve the spot either.
The only thing you can do is raster the whole document and enable preserve spot color. But the problem is that their is no way to extract the raster from the Illustrator document. Not even from Acrobat.
The only solution is to use PhantasmCS Publisher plugin from Astute Graphics. http://www.astutegraphics.com/
The publisher version of the plugin allow to edit embeded image from inside illustrator. So what you need to do is raster the whole doc, and edit it with PhantasmCS Publisher to edit it in Photoshop.

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