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Inspiring
January 19, 2021
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Change/Convert Hex color number for whole PDF document?

  • January 19, 2021
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Hi,

 

I have a huge document that I've discovered has not only hex color black (00000) but also another color that shows up sometimes (262626).  I'm trying to get all text color uniform throughout the PDF (00000).  I know I can do a text box but that would take way too long for the whole document; and besides, it messes up the formatting of my footnotes for some reason.  But when I do the text box I can manually convert the hex color to 00000.  Surely there's a way to do this for the whole document?  When I try to go to Print Production (preflight/color conversions) I can't seem to be able to do what I'm trying to do (for example if I try to convert all to B/W or sRGB).  Whatever I try, the hex color remains the same.  Please help!

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Correct answer Jon5C92

Have you poked around the Ink Manager yet?  If I remember correctly (don't have the app in front of me currently), you can specify a color to swap/reassign in there.  Should be accessed from the Print Production tools.\, if I'm remembering correctly.

My best,

Dave


So I was finally able to figure it out, if anyone else is having a similar issue.  First, I converted the whole document to generic RGB.  Then, I converted the whole document to generic CYMK.  This fixes it.  Hope this can help someone else.

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Dave__M
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January 19, 2021

Does this PDF have actual editable text, or is it an image-based PDF?

 

My best,

Dave

Jon5C92Author
Inspiring
January 19, 2021

It is around 400 pages of text only, aside from one picture at the very end.