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M Cor
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November 21, 2025
Question

PDF/X-4:2010 Preflight Warning: Colour separation for special colour are inconsistence

  • November 21, 2025
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Hi!

Maybe the community can help me with this:

 

When exporting a InDesign-document to Adobe PDF/X-4:2010 for prepress/print, I get a warning about color separation inconsistency. When checking this out, it points to the ”cutting-marks” and to the document-info of the PDF (this is all outside the printing-area). It also warns about the system font Helvetica. 

 

I have never seen this warning before. And even more strange: When I do a preflight of the PDF in smaller chunks of pages, everything is ok. The PDF-document have 336 pages.

 

Translation, screenshots:

Registreringfärg = Special colour

Övertryck av/på = Overprint on/off

 

I work in:

Adobe Acrobat, version 2025.001.20841 (Creative Cloud Standard)

Adobe InDesign, version 21.0.1 (Creative Cloud Standard)

Mac Studio Sequoia 15.6.1

 

/Marta

 

2 replies

Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 27, 2026

BTW, new Adobe forum interface: What is a Braniac?

Mike Witherell
Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 27, 2026

Have you considered retesting after patching to current versions?

Patch up to macOS Sequoia 15.7.3

and InDesign 21.2

Mike Witherell