How do I convert rich black text to 100%K?

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August 7, 2019
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I am preparing ads for a print publication. I am trying to change small rich black text to 100% K. I use the editing tools and set the sliders to 100% K but it just changes the text to RGB after I close out of the editing tools. Is there some way to "apply" change? What am I missing?

Luke Jennings3

Community Expert

You need to duplicte the preflight profile from the "Options" fly-out menu.

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matthiasb2985353

Participant

Preflight -> "Correct 4C Black" works fine.

Lukas Engqvist

Community Expert

In Acrobat Pro the simplest is to use Convert Colours under Prepress tools. You can choose to convert text objects only and Keep Black and Promote CMYK-K to Balck. Also converting to a greyscale profile will also convert to black. There is of course the above mentioned preflight, and you can also make a preflight into a droplet so that you can apply the fix by just dropping files on it.

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Rocket Rod

Participant

Greetings Lukas:
I'm told by my book publisher that my PFD contains 4 color black type. I've used "Convert Colors" option with the "Photoshop 5 default CMYK" selection for any object and color space. I've also opened the "Ink Manager" and checked the "Convert all Spots to Process" option. Then I chose the "Preserve Black" option. Wouldn't this ensure that all the text is rendered on the black process plate? In other words, rendered in black with no separation. I'm stuck and would really appreciate any advice on how to keep all the text in my book black.
Thank you in advance,
Rod Machado
Loyal Adobe User

Luke Jennings3

Community Expert

Here is a link to a related discussion that includes instructions on using a preflight fixup:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/how-to-convert-color-image-to-black-in-acrobat-dc/m-p/11138554?page=1

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2014/09/acrobat-pro-preflight-fixup-to-convert.html

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Jackie298589920iyr

Inspiring

@Stephen Marsh This works like a charm! Thank you! It's not converting my lines though. Lines in charts, underlines and stroked lines. Any idea why? I changed text objects to a bunch of different settings and nothing worked. (Lines that are rich black, lines under 2pt that are rich black)