[WillAdams]

The wedding invitation is still there, and if you submitted it to a printer to print as a spot colour job, would print fine.

If you want to print it on your CMYK inkjet printer, just choose the CMYK build, and if you want to put the image on your web site, choose the RGB hex representation.

Because Adobe doesn't have an option for substrate representation, there are two spot colour libraries (for coated/uncoated stock), and in order for a job to print properly on a commercial press, spot colours have to be identifiable so that a plate can be made.

To use a car analogy, it's like a person complaining that their truck needs diesel because they didn't understand what the diesel engine description on the window sticker meant.

[moolcool]

For the car analogy, it seems to me more like Ford pushing a firmware update to remove support for Ethanol based fuels IMO.

[WillAdams]

No, because they are consciously choosing an option which their needs don't support, and which every time their files are professionally printed someone needs to explicitly change.

[moolcool]

Their needs do support it though. They were happy with the output, and it printed on their inkjet printer just fine. Then Adobe rug-pulled and they weren't able to view their own files any more.

[WillAdams]

It printed in a preview mode, not as a spot colour job --- if it's not getting printed as a spot colour, don't pick a colour so defined.