

> FunctionFox is a leader in timesheets and project management for creative teams since 1999. News and special offers from our sponsors: STEP THREE: When I open the Separations Preview panel and turn the View popup menu to Separations, the Ink Aliasing kicks in, converting all instances of Pantone Blue to M圜olor… and also showing that M圜olor is being converted to CMYK (using the CMYK values I set up when I created the color). And then I selected M圜olor and clicked on the icon in the left column, which means convert this color to process.

STEP TWO: I opened Ink Manager (from the Swatches panel menu), selected the Pantone Blue and then chose M圜olor from the Ink Alias popup menu. I also created a new color that is a spot color, but defined with a CMYK value, called "M圜olor 50/10/85/0". I then applied that Pantone Blue spot color to some text in a text frame. AI file (it could also be a PDF) that contains two spot colors (Pantone Blue, and a yellow called Pantone 114). David's report from his post-podcast testing (see the episode 251 Show Notes on our site for screenshots that illustrate these steps): In a heated discussion during the podcast, the question was debated: If you alias a spot ink to another spot ink, will it separate out to CMYK correctly? Answer: YES.
