Spot Pantone to CMYK processed with ease?

Question

Hi,
I am placing a series of graphic art samples that consist of
Pantone spot colors into what will be a CMYK (processed color)
document for a presentation.
How can I convert all the samples that are Pantone assigned
color to CMYK easily?? Is there a broad selection sort of solution
because these are detailed & I don't want to have to
individually click each & every element by hand + click on the
color mixer to convert...that would take ages!
Surely you've got the answer? -- Thanks!

Answer 1

r_tist wrote:
> Judy, I will indeed be printing to an imagesetter. So
your advice is to trust
> Acrobat Distiller & hand over to the printer with
the settings you specified
> and that will be good enough? -- Do you recommend this
particular method
> because it will save a bunch of time vs. the conversion
process & providing an
> .EPS?
>
>
> From past experience I know that every single graphical
element must be
> converted to CMYK otherwise it will not show up on the
plate. (I need to be
> really cautious with this particular job)
r_tist,
I'm very sorry, my advice to create a composite CMYK PDF via
the print
dialog does not work. I should have checked before I wrote
that. You are
correct. The Pantone spot colors will be preserved in the
PDF.
I'm fairly confident the PDF would print fine, as long as the
printer
selected 'separations' and 'convert all spots to process' in
the Acrobat
Advanced Print Setup. However, you'd be relying on someone
else to make sure
that happened.
I do know that Pantone solid colors will correctly output to
process
separations when 'print spot colors as process' is checked in
the FH print
dialog.
You may want talk to your print shop and see what kind of
file they would
prefer. Because they would know the characteristics of their
own press and
paper, they may want to do their own adjustments to convert
Pantone solid
colors to CMYK.
Judy Arndt