Hi, I may be wrong, but I have the impression that tikz (a LaTeX drawing package) can handle spot colors (that's what Google seemed to tell me [*]). If this is the case you could output R graphics using the tikzDevice package, post-process the output (readable, plain text file), and eventually have LaTeX produce the pdf image with spot colors.
Worth a try, perhaps. baptiste [*] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Colors#In_TikZ On 13 April 2011 21:15, Matthieu Stigler <matthieu.stig...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > > Thanks!! > > Matthieu > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.