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Subject:Re: PMS Colors in Word From:"Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>, <wtreisz -at- raque -dot- com> Date:Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:40:31 -0400
Wes,
Word is not a publishing program. It manages colors well enough for a desktop printer, but it does not deal well with separations, CMYK, or PMS spot colors.
Save your Word document as RTF. Then import it into publishing program (PageMaker, QuarkXpress, maybe FrameMaker, ...) and convert your colors there.
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>Hello,
>Has anyone ever attempted to set a PMS font color in Word? ... if so, how? I
>might be missing something, but it appears MSWord doesn't allow it.
>Best Regards,
>Wesley T. Reisz
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