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_George_Coghill_
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March 8, 2009
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"Your current color settings discard CMYK profiles in linked content" error message

  • March 8, 2009
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I keep getting the following error message:

"Your current color settings discard CMYK profiles in linked content but profiles were set to be honored when this document was created."

every time I open an Illustrator document. I have no idea how this setting was set and no idea how to turn it off. I am just using the standard N America Prepress color setting in Bridge.

I have tried opening new documents using the supplied Ai CS4 new document profiles, no luck. So I am assuming it's a pref that is set in the app itself, yet I have no idea how to change this setting? I don't even see anything referring to a setting like this.

I found this archived discussion: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b58d84 which had no resolution. Thought I would throw it out there again and see if anyone has been able to fix this. It drives me insane having to deal with that error every time I open a saved document.
      Correct answer Monika Gause

      I'm glad someone asked this. This fix seems to just cover up the problem. I would like to understand exactly what it's seeing and how to fix incoming art or what my workspace management policies should be and why. I can design stuff but I don't understand all the technical coloring stuff that my presses need.


      If you receive files from other people then the only way to get rid of the error is to set up your environment just as they did.

       

      This warning is just a notification that different settings have been used. The setting the warning is reminding you of, concerns how CMYK profiles are handled. Will a profile mismatch cause Illustrator to convert color according to the different profiles? Or will Illustrator keep the numbers and discard the different profile.

       

      In CMYK most of the time you want to keep the numbers, because you don't want 100 K black to be converted into something dirty and you don't want a 100% yellow converted to something that has some percent of dark ink in it.

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      Anonymous
      July 28, 2009

      just do the following:

      menu edit > color settings > color management policies

      change the settings to 'convert to working spaces'

      unchek the three boxes 'ask blah-blah-blah...'

      you`re done.

      note that all color profiles wil be substitude by your own profile (standard N America Prepress color setting)

      bye.

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        skvilhaug
        Participant
        August 31, 2009

        I get the same error message.  I tried to follow the advice of Unchecking the three "ask..." boxes, and it did not fix the issue.

        This has ONLY been an issue since my company upgraded to CS4.

        Please help!

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          Wade_Zimmerman1
          Inspiring
          September 1, 2009

          You guys probably are using linked images and therefore the message which is unavoidable unless your profiles match and you probably want them to match, so the way to avoid this would be to sync your color settings in all your Adobe applications and use the same color space for the document and the placed images.

          More than likely you have CMYK document with RGB images?

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