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January 26, 2026
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•  Parameters (Presets) for exporting Pantone® colors and viewing them as vivid colors.

  • January 26, 2026
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Hello,

I am having trouble saving PDFs for Pantone® colors (originally intended for paper printing) so that they appear very vibrant.

I have tried multiple settings (even RGB) and nothing works.
These colors still appear relatively dull.


Could you tell me which settings I need to check, or
even the settings I mustn't forget?


My base document is an InDesign file,
•  Intent = “WEB”
•  The profile is “Adobe RGB 1998” (I even tried sRGB, etc.)

•  …

knowing that the ultimate goal will be to create a JavaScript that will save PDFs in batches

Thank you.
 
 
— Dimitri

 

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rob day
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Community Expert
January 26, 2026

Hi @dimitri_cas , Check the definition of your PANTONE Swatches. InDesign no longer includes Pantone Libraries, but when they did there were solid ink spot libraries with the colors defined as Lab (C), and separate libraries for CMYK process color simulations (CP) .

 

A large number of Pantone solid ink colors are outside of the typical CMYK color gamut, so to display out-of-gamut Pantone colors you need the solid ink Lab definitions. Here you can see the difference with the out-of-gamut PANTONE Orange 021, which cannot be matched via CMYK printing:

 

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