This Enfocus PitStop command allows us to change the names of Pantone spot colours in a document that do not conform to modern nomenclature.
The command will search for any spot colour names in a document that may fully or partially match any of the previous Pantone colour names. If it finds them, it will apply the chosen corrections to them.
"Full or partial" means, for example, that it will change names containing the sequence "pantone" but not those containing only "panton" ("Apantoneskoglu" is corrected, "pantono" is not corrected). Obviously the command is intended to change names provided by Pantone, not delusions perpetrated by some creative user.
If we have chosen to have PitStop report in case of error, the program will give a warning when there is a colour that looks like a Pantone but for which it cannot find a plausible match in modern catalogues ("No substitution found…").
Warning: The standardisation is just a nomenclature standardisation. The command does not check or change colour values or the values they have in alternative colour spaces. If the normalisation causes several spot colours to end up having the same name, they will be merged into a single colour separation. This may not display as corrected at first glance, but if we just save the document and reopening it, we will see the correction has been applied (it's a minor glitch in the software).
However, each object will retain previous colour definitions and alternative colour space definitions (and it might not be displayed on screen). If we do any subsequent colour conversion of these objects, these differences will be revealed - in some cases very obviously. Be warned!
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