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Color in work area less alive than pdf

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November 18, 2020
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Hello

I am just trying to use Indesign and I encontred a little problem with color.

They look little bit differente from work area to the pdf, i mean in the work area of Indesign they look less alive :).

You can see,what I mean, in the screenshot that I attached here. All colors are in cmyk and to creat the pdf I used the export of Indesign.

Thank you for the help

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You could have a corrupt monitor profile—CMYK color gets converted into your system’s monitor profile for display, so the monitor profile has to be an accurate profile of the display. I’m on OSX, so I can‘t help with the Windows monitor profile setup

franco5FA7Author

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ok any suggestion how to start to solve my problem?

thank u

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Here’s a Photoshop thread on corrupt Windows monitor profiles:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/yellow-screen-in-photoshop/m-p/10745446?page=1

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Here are Fogra39 CMYK fills, exported with the default PDF/X-4 preset viewed in AcrobatPro:

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What are your InDesign Color Settings set to?

Does the document have an assigned CMYK profile—Edit>Assign Profiles...?

franco5FA7Author

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This is what I have in edit>setting color and in edit>Assign Profiles.

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Are you viewing the PDF/X in Acrobat?

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Try using the PDF/X-4 or PDF/X-1a preset when you Export.

franco5FA7Author

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Thank you for the answer.

I followd your suggestion but the result is the same.

I really dont know if the problem is the pdf or the work area. there is any setting for that?

However what do you think about the color in my screenshot? it looks too differente ?