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M Cor
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Nov 21, 2025 11:18 AM UTC
Question

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

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
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Jan 27, 2026 12:22 PM UTC

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

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Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
Jan 27, 2026 12:21 PM UTC

Have you considered retesting after patching to current versions?

Patch up to macOS Sequoia 15.7.3

and InDesign 21.2

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