Delivering 'Pantone Files' for Printer Using Spot Colors

[gwpriester]

All Pantone colors or Pantone and CMYK colors?

I think as long as your colors are designated Pantone colors they should appear fine in the PDF/X document.

I applied Pantone colors to three objects including text and exported as PDF/X-4

In Acrobat > Tools > Ink Manager the three spot colors appear. The presence of CMYK colors are indicated too but there is nothing in the document that is CMYK. And a printer printing only Pantone colors would just not process the CMYK colors.

[hseiken]

Thanks I'll give it a shot. I'm running a little blind here since there's two middle men between the printers and I, and I don't even know what company is doing the printing so I can't just call them up and ask.

Much appreciated!