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Xterkater
Xterkater
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October 26, 2017
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Schoolproject - Color doesn't appear after exporting

  • October 26, 2017
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Hey all,

I'm currently working on a schoolproject. We had to make a movie poster for our own made science-fiction story. First we had to work in Photoshop. From there you had to import the Photoshop file into InDesign and work on the fonts etc. The title of my movie is called 'Climax'. I gave it a sort of grey color, but when I package the whole file and I open the PDF file from the package, the title is completely white. In InDesign it still has the grey color, but when I open the exported files, it's just white.

Does anyone know how I can solve this problem? I can't find the solution..

Thanks in advance!

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Xterkater
XterkaterAuthor
Participant
October 26, 2017

Now I get it! The problem is finally solved haha. Both of you, many thanks!

Jongware
Community Expert
JongwareCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 26, 2017

How did you color the text? Post a screen shot with that text selected and your Color panel in view.

Xterkater
XterkaterAuthor
Participant
October 26, 2017

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. The 3 images on top are when I select the grey 'Climax' in InDesign. The image below is what I see when I open the PDF file.

Jongware
Community Expert
JongwareCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 26, 2017

What you see is correct behavior (and, uhm, so you did this wrong).

You told InDesign that the paper that you are going to put into the printer is gray. InDesign shows this gray background so you get an idea of what it is going to look like. Now, think a bit further. If the paper already is that color, then why should it appear in the PDF? If it did, then it would also print!

Change [Paper] back to its default white color and add a new swatch with the color you want. Select the text, apply the swatch, export to PDF.

You will get a different background image as well, because (again) you made InDesign think the background was going to be gray. If you intend the background image to be gray-ish, you can play with transparency options inside InDesign itself (overlay a transparent black rectangle, for example), or edit it in Photoshop and be done with it.

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