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Converting Colors |
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Microsoft® Office Publisher® 2007
In our example we have a document using the Bluebird color scheme. To convert your colors, in the Format Publications panel, select the Color Schemes tab. Then click the Create new color scheme... text at the bottom of the tab. Change each Accent color by selecting the down arrow under the New column, and select More colors... You can use the Custom tab to select the nearest process color build, or you can select the PANTONE® tab for the closest spot color. In the example below we are going to select PANTONE 287 C for our blue. Click OK when you have finished making your selection. After converting each of the Accent colors in your document, type a Color scheme name, and click Save when you are done. Convert Colors to Inks
Once you have converted your Accent colors to process or spot colors, we will need to convert these Colors to Inks. From the Tools Menu select the Commercial Printing Tools > Color Printing... option. Select the type of colors you want to use. In the example below, we are converting to Process colors plus spot colors. A confirmation dialog box will appear, click OK to convert all the existing colors to process. The process color will now appear under the Inks tab. If you have defined Spot colors or Process colors plus spot colors, then you will need to convert your Accent colors to spot. First select the Colors tab. Select each Accent color one at a time, right click, and select Convert to Spot. For Accent 5, which is usually white, you can Change or Delete this. In the example below we have selected Delete and the Replace Color dialog box appears. Select the CMYK (0, 0, 0, 0) white and click OK. Now your Accent colors will appear as Spot colors under the Inks tab. Click the OK button. In this example our Offset Colors scheme has been sucessful converted to a (Custom) color scheme of spot colors. Microsoft product screen shot(s) reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation. |
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