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FlyingSaucy
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December 7, 2023
Question

Setting defaut colourspace for a pdf

  • December 7, 2023
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Is there a way to 'force' a pdf to open with 'Adobe RGB' as it's default display profile?

 

I'm creating a document in Indesign (document set-up Web), with the Adobe RGB colour profile. I'm exporting it with No Colour conversion. This document will never see print.

 

When I open this in Acrobat the colours look dull - but when I manually change the 'simulation' to Adobe RGB they pop as they should.

 

I need the document to open in this way rather than having to ask my client to manually change it, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this.

 

The RGB colors used are out of gamut for the CMYK space, so there's no suitable alternative. This choice is out of my control.

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JR Boulay
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 8, 2023

Using Adobe RGB for a document is a non sense, you should use sRGB IEC61966 instead.

The latest post in this topic should help you: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/v%C3%A9rifier-profil-icc-sur-pdf/m-p/14042807#M425793

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 8, 2023

Did you embed the correct colour profile? What are your export settings in InDesign?

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer