Creating a PMS Duotone in Illustrator

[Luc St-Pierre]

In indesign, you can create and edit a color from two inks. Just cut and paste a box in Illustrator and that color will pop-up in your swatches and will be understood by any rip.

[suess]

It appears this could be done a number of ways.. but maybe a simpler approach would be to draw the shape/object .. Open the swatch panel and then open the swatch libraries to pick your Pantone set Coated/Uncoated etc. then press CTRL+F9 to open the Gradient as well (might be tricky in CS3/4 depending on how your workspace is setup you will want both open at the same time "drag the tabs out") ... Press "G" on Keyboard for the Gradient tool. Grab and drag and drop the first Spot Color to the Gradient window @ 0% or 100%, then the same for the second. Then use your mouse to apply the gradient to the selected object, as you would in photoshop etc. I attached a zip of a video that quickly shows this.