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monsieurl73093884
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November 8, 2022
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Colour Issues when Publishing Online and ePUB export

  • November 8, 2022
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Hello everyone,

 

When I publish an RGB document online the colours seem washed out and as if they are being converted to CMYK.

The same happens when i export the same file to ePUB.

When i export to PDF everything is perfect.

It used to work perfectly for years, and the problem is now happening for 3 weeks or so.

I dont know what could be the issue since nothing has changed regarding the colour settings.

 

I ofcourse checked the traditionnal colour problems occuring with enabled wrong settings:

-transparency is set to RGB

-bridge has never been installed on our creative suite

-space colour is sRGB

 

i tried the emulate Adobe Indesign 2.0  SGC disabled trick , it worked on 3 online publications then stopped.

 

Now every online publication ans ePUB exports are wrong

 

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3 replies

Mike Witherell
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Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 29, 2022

I was wondering if you had noticed that your color management was not synchronised? I always take care to set it up in Photoshop, and then make sure InDesign and the others follow the same .csf that was set in Photoshop.

 

It might or might not apply to your problem, but it is important to have the whole thing doing one set of house rules when it comes to color management.

Mike Witherell
rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 30, 2022

Hi Mike, The example I attached above only contains profiled sRGB color, so the colors should publish to HTML unchanged. The test includes matching image and native ID sRGB values, that publish with noticeably different appearances in the HTML doc, but match in the PDF download.

rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 16, 2022

Hi @monsieurl73093884 , can you post a screen capture showing the color change?

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Benjamin27121716k5le
Participating Frequently
November 17, 2022

here is one of a published online portfolio i just did

 

html on the left, indd file on the right

the reds are totally washed out and lack saturation (mostly)

rob day
Community Expert
rob dayCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 17, 2022

It looks like the difference I would expect between AdobeRGB and sRGB:

 

 

What version of InDesign are you using? Have you tried deleting your Caches folder and if that doesn’t work resetting your Preferences?

 

Could you share the ID file? You should be able to attach it to a reply—don’t need the fonts.

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    Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 9, 2022

    If it's being converted you're in control of that.

    Can you please share your export settings?

     

    Have you tried changing your export options.

    As far as I know there's no way to convert colours to CMYK for ePUB. 

     

    So there is something going on - if you can supply the export information you are using.

    Thanks

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    Benjamin27121716k5le
    Participating Frequently
    November 16, 2022

    Sure here are my presets for the epub export.

    I am really concerned by the wrong appearance of the html pages generated via the Publish Online feature, i must say.  I have absolutely no control when using this option...

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