CYMK export to PDF - need help

[MrMoon]

Menu: Window --> Show Printer Colours --> Simulate Print Colours (it will not be the same but near to pdf view)

[Albacore]

It will never as Xara uses RGB colours in its display and when you export it the colour profile then gets change to CMYK. This means that certain colours will look washed out. Now you can use Pantone colours with the Pro version but what will happen to that colour is that it will be converted using the export PDF filter into CMYK. The easiest way to get the Pantone colour is to tell your printer every thing that is 50% grey (it could be any colour) gets the Pantone colour that you want. Have a read in the Help files this will give you a better understanding of the subject. One big point of using spot colours that it can be cheaper using 1 or 2 colours and if you are using Pantone colours then this spot colour must be named. Pantone produce booklets or cards with with all their colours printed on them so if you specify that colour it will print that colour exactly. My big advice to anyone who is sending something to print for the first time don't use an online site as a lot of them do not want to take time to get to know their customer and their wants, I would use a local print shop who you can talk to and if you have a CMYK desktop laser printer you will just about see what your biz card will look like.