Matthieu Stigler <matthieu.stigler <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Hi > > We are about to publish a book, which contains figures made with R > plots. An important detail that we did not take into account is that the > book will not be printed in 4 colors (cmyk mode), but only 2 (black > +"spotcolor"). The spotcolor we use is part of the big Pantone family. > > The problem is that both pdf() and postscript() offer either rgb or > cmyk, but no spotcolors such as pantone. I'm afraid this constraint > can't be solved at all, and we can't use R for creating these plots? I > did not find any package that would extend the colormodel to include > spot colors... Did anyone had a similar experience? >
Wasn't aware of spotcolors, but I bet you could hack the PDF reasonably easily (if you have many figures you might have to use awk/sed/perl ?) ... if you don't use R, what is your alternative for creating the figures? Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
