LC-designer fieldproperties in CMYK

dear all,
i'am looking for a solution to define fieldproperties (fillColor, textColor, strokeColor) in CMYK with LC-designer
acroforms are possible to define by using javascript arrays like this
color.myred = new Array("CMYK", 0, 1, 0.6, 0)
this.getField('textfeld').textColor = color.myred;
how does this work within LC designer fields?
this is also a cost situaton, RGB textColor fields (255,255,255) will be printed as a colour page and not as black page (0,0,0,1)
thanks for helping
hannes

Designer does not support CMYK only RGB.

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