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Layout Designer 2013 will then create the color with the exact CMYK colors specified
by the PANTONE system and not adjust it in any way when printing.
This option is cheaper than using the PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE as no additional
plates are required, and the print company does not need a special ink — all colors are
created using the normal CMYK color process. But you will not be able to achieve
some of the colors available through PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE
Using a PANTONE color
To use a color from a library either:
• Just drag & drop the color from the
COLOR Gallery onto the object to which you
wish to apply the color (for other ways of applying colors from the
COLOR Gallery,
see Color handling (on page 159)).
• Or in t
he
COLOR Gallery, drag the color you want to use from the library section
up to the section for your current document. This lets you copy several colors in
one operation. (See Galleries (on page 64) for details of selecting items in a
ga
llery.)
This copies the library color into the document and displays it on the color line.
You cannot delete, rename or redefine colors in the color libraries. However, you can
change copies of colors used in your document.
Note: Altering a PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE color will cause it to become a process
(CMYK) color.
Important notes when using PANTONE colors
PANTONE colors (and CYMK colors in general) are useful for reproducing a known
color. There is no other reason to use CMYK or PANTONE colors, and for all normal
use we recommend using HSV or RGB colors.
If you use any of the MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 transparency effects on or
over any CMYK or PANTONE color, the color will be modified by the transparency
process (which mixes any transparent colors with those underneath the object) and
will not produce the expected PANTONE color. This is an unavoidable consequence
of the way transparency works.
So a simple rule if you require a PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE color or a specific CMYK
color value (and that includes the use of pure K shades of gray) is to not use
transparency, feathering, soft shadows, bevels or Live Effects on or over these objects.
Doing so will result in that object or portion of the object being processed as RGB
colors and so will result in color shifts.