Re: Renaming spot colours

[Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>]

Hello Duncan,

Duncan Hothersall wrote:

> More questions!
>
> I'm using black plus one spot colour in a document, and I include PDF 
> images generated in an external program (CorelDraw) which use the same 
> spot colour. In the images the color is called 'PANTONE 294 CV', but I 
> can't use that name for my colour in ConTeXT because names can't 
> contain numbers or spaces. So in ConTeXt I define
> \definecolor[PantoneTwoNineFour][c=1,m=.56,y=0,k=.18]
>
\definecolor[PANTONE 294CV] [c=1,m=.56,y=0,k=.18]

% test
\framed[background=color, backgroundcolor={PANTONE 294CV}]{Test}

\color[PANTONE 294CV] Test

% the only thing that doesn't work is \PANTONE 294CV

> The end result is a file with two spot colour spaces instead of one. 
> Is there a way I can combine them, either by a last-minute renaming, 
> or a mapping, or a pre-process, or something? (I tried the brute force 
> method of search-and-replace on the PDF file but there must be 
> binary-encoded references to the names as well as ASCII ones, because 
> that broke the file.)
>
> Any help as ever greatly appreciated.
>
> Duncan
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Hope this helps

    Peter