Hi Ed,
probably your colors are set to automatically separate to CMYK in Illustrator: If you use a pantone library, all colors here are by default defined as CMYK-separating colors, although a pantone value is displayed in the color window... => Set the two colors to "spotcolor" in the color options (swatch options). A small dot will then be visible in each color (in the swatches palette for the document). After this, when producing a PDF, set the output option to "no color conversion". The pantone colors will then have their own plates in the pdf as spot colors. Pls see also: --> http://karafintechteam.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/5/3/7853240/spot_color_and_adobe_illustrator.pdf Best regards Tino H. Haida, Berlin Ed Nodland: > This seems like it should be simple and done routinely by many others. > > I have an image of a flammable substance label. It has a pantone red, a pantone yellow, and black. I want to use the image in a Framemaker document that will be sent for commercial printing using "Spot Color" not process printing. How can I accomplish this? > > The image is an Illustrator file. I save the file to PDF, load it into Frame 10, save the Frame file as PDF, open in acrobat pro and use Advanced > Print Production > Output Preview to see that the image is a mix of CMYK not my spot pantone colors. > > I also suspect that the image saved from Illustrator as a PDF format should display the spot colors but it does not. So the problem/solution might start there. > > Ed Nodland
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