Belongs to
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Category: Color
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Type: Changes
What it does
Remap color is a complex but powerful Action that allows the remapping of colors from one color
space to another.
For each color in the document you can specify whether or not you want to map it to
another color (by means of "remapping rules"), and whether or not the overprint
settings should change.
Note:
- Use the Analyze page or Analyze
document buttons to get an overview of the colors in the
document being processed.
- To change a remapping rule, click Change and make
the required changes; to add a new one, click
Add.
- Keep in mind that the order of the rules is important. You can change
the order by selecting a rule and clicking Up or
Down.
- You can remap colors, color spaces, color ranges and channels.
Example
Suppose you have a CMYK PDF that you want to print in a single spot color, MySpot.cv.
To remap all the colors to this spot:
- Under Attributes for Remap color, select the row that mentions
All other and click
Change.
- In the Color Remap Rule popup, under
To:, select Color.
- Select the repository color MySpot.cv. You should have specified this color
earlier in PitStop.
- Select the desired overprint setting:
- Keep the overprint settings as they are, do
not change.
- Enable overprint: On
- Disable overprint: Off
- Click OK.
To remap everything except, for example, 100% black text and objects to the selected target
color MySpot.cv, you need a slightly more elaborated action:
- Click Add.
- Under Remap, select Color and
Device CMYK.
- Set the values to: C 0% M 0% Y 0% K 100%.
- Under To:, select Keep.
- Select the desired overprint setting.
- Click OK.
- Select Add.
- In the Color Remap Rule popup, under
Remap, select Device
CMYK.
- Under To:, select Color.
- Select the repository color MySpot.cv. You should have specified this color
earlier in PitStop.
- Click OK.
The above Actions must be performed in the correct order. Under
Attributes for Remap
color, you should have three lines:
- The rule for "keep 100% Black" at the top
- Then the rule for "remap to MySpot.cv"
- "All other" at the bottom