R plots pdf() does not allow spotcolors?
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.stigler at 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
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