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11:17 pm
December 13, 2011


GregB

Tasmania Australia

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Hope someone can help with a colour swatch problem in CS3

Have you ever had circumstances where CMYK colours have converted themselves to random decimal percentages, or where 100% black is separated to random decimal CMYK percentages.

 We’ve had some issues of late, where a colour has been made up correctly (for example hot red C 0, M100, Y100, K0) but when opened on another machine it has converted to something like C0.76%, M87.65%, Y88.30%, K0.89%

It’s obviously a colour setting thing, but we synchronize our settings in Bridge to use a newspaper setting… have noticed lately that the colour settings are defaulting to something other than the newspaper's colour setting when we turn our machines off.

Thanks

11:34 pm
December 18, 2011


atwfg828

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Not sure the exact issue, but to give you a starting point. It sounds like your swatches are being converted to RGB and then back to CMYK at some point. It will not usually make a radical difference like you are seeing, but it could be that it is being converted to something more radical than RGB. The most likely culperate is that it is one of the many crazy issues that develop from corrupt preferences.

To reset you preferences see: http://indesignsecrets.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences.php

It looks like Steven was having a similar issue: http://indesignsecrets.com/reb…..ment-11655

7:18 am
December 21, 2011


David Blatner

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This also happens when the document is pushed from one color space to another using Edit > Convert to Profile. 

I bet the Edit > Color Settings were set to CMYK > Convert to Working Space (instead of the far more sane Ignore Linked Profiles Preserve Numbers). This is a huge (but fortunately rare) problem.

You can learn more here:
http://indesignsecrets.com/why…..-color.php

and here:

http://indesignsecrets.com/my-….. 

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8:39 pm
December 21, 2011


atwfg828

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@David

Great! Thanks for filling in the specifics.
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