Problem with two gradients disappearing Indesign to Illustrator

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January 8, 2025
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Hi!

I have a problem when exporting two CMYK gradient colors from Indesign(2025) and then opening up the document in Illustrator(2025).

I export it as an .pdf CMYK Fogra 39 but as soon as I open it up two of the gradients in the document disappears.

I will Attach the indesign document "Utredning_FLH" and its the two first gradients that disappears.

Some of you have any idea of what could be the problem?

Utredning_FLH.zip

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Exporting means what? You export a PDF and then open the PDF in Illustrator?

Illustrator is not a general purpose PDF editor. It might or might not work and when it doesn't work, just rebuild the gradient

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antonk114510Author

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Yes, exporting it as an .Pdf from ID then open it up in illustrator.

I usually get .pdf documents from clients and then open them (to put cutlines bleeds etc.) trough .ai and rarley get any problem but with this file it didnt work and was just curious what could be the problem. Also to tell the client what they can do to do the .pdf file correct.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

It's a bad idea to open client provided PDFs in Illustrator if the PDFs have not been saved from Illustrator with "preserve ditability" turned on.

Either the clients provide you with a printready PDF or they give you the source files or you use dedicated prepress tools for those edits.

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