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How to Restore Color Settings Policies After Installing InDesign CC2025

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October 18, 2024
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I think my Preferences and Workspaces from CC2024 were held but the Policies that were all ON before (I checked) were all OFF at first use.

This has happened for me before, but worth checking. Hopefully someone will be helped.

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Correct answer Mike Witherell

In your above screenshot, what is lacking is clicking on the Save button to have a named CMS file. If the switches were turned on and the settings were saved and named, you would be still in business with color management policies.

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All my other Preferences held ok.

reproo2773183Author

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v20.0.1 wiped my Color Settings again, this time I had it saved as a named CMS file.

Very quick to put back but annoying that it keeps happening.

It also reset my Workspace, again very easy to put back because I have it saved, and less annoying because you can't miss it.

I'll trawl through my Preferences and report back.

Mike Witherell

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This is setup once in Photoshop and saved and named. Step 2 is go to Bridge and choose it in Color Settings. This dispatches the same setting out to Illustrator and InDesign. I really dont go directly to InDesign to set it up (nor Illustrator). The wholistic approach is to begin with Photoshop > Edit > Color Settings.

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Syncing the Color Settings with Bridge isn't right for me. I'm in Pre-Press so need to know when there is a mis-match when opening InDesign because its with the document and I'm not in control of how someone set it up. Photoshop is set to always use the embedded profile when opening so the only warning I need is when pasting. Also for me I have AdobeRGB Default in Photoshop because its most likely to give pleasing colour but sRGB Default in InDesign because unprofiled images are usually crud from the internet or jpegs out of camera.

Mike Witherell

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There is an exception to every rule!

Mike Witherell

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Not sure what you mean by Policies?

If you mean strictly the color management, then after upgrading, you have to setup color managment policies to re-instate your usual color management settings. For me, that usually means a trip to PS to make sure it has the same CM and then a quick stop at Bridge to send out the synchronization command to AI, ID, and Acrobat.

If you mean those check boxes at the bottom of dialog boxes (usually Preview), then, yes, annoyingly, they are all turned off and you have no Preview until you check them all on again. I find that annoying, and I wish there was a Preference to turn them all on at once, or else when Preferences are brought forward to the next version install, it would see and preserve them. Maybe next year?

Mike Witherell

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InDesign's Color Management Policies

Mike Witherell

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In your above screenshot, what is lacking is clicking on the Save button to have a named CMS file. If the switches were turned on and the settings were saved and named, you would be still in business with color management policies.

Mike Witherell

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