Janet,

ALL is a special spot color in PostScript Level 2 that will print on all
color separations. It is normally used to print crop and registration
marks. PitStop's Preflight tool can show you which item is using the spot
color.

Most likely, the color All is in the original PostScript file. This can be
verified with the DSCVerifier if you have a Mac. Or use BBEdit to
search the file for the letters "All" with "Case Sensitive".

The color All could also be created via Distiller's Prologue.ps file if
you are using one.

Regards,
Bob Anderson

> ----------
> From: Hughes, Janet
> Reply To: Acrobat Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 12:17 AM
> To: 'Acrobat Talk'
> Subject: Phantom spot colour
>
>
> I have a strange problem occuring. We are using the latest Acrobat
> (4.05) to process postscript files (out of QXP 4.11 on PC). These files
> have
> no spot colours when the postscript is created. When they go through
> Acrobat
> Distiller, PitStop finds a spot colour called ALL. Checking shows this to
> be
> in the job header that Quark adds to the top of the page. I assumed that
> Quark was causing the problem until the other day. I received an outside
> file (advertisement) that contained a TT font. Because our RIPs crash on
> these, I recreated the EPS file by exporting from Acrobat, then
> re-distilled
> it through our Distiller set-up. The phantom spot colour All (which had
> not
> been in the original PDF file - I double checked) suddenly appeared when
> re-checked with PitStop.
>
> How is this happening? Has anyone ever seen this. Our settings are
> straight out of ones we developed in co-operation with Adobe (they can be
> found at www.3dap.com.au) and have not been changed.
>
> I am very confused. What is happening here??
>
> Janet
>
> Janet Hughes
> ACP Publishing Applications Specialist
> Tel: 9282 8427
> Mobile: 0412 061 134
>
>
>
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