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JGiaffo
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August 30, 2020
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Dull Colors Exporting to Image Formats (PNG, JPG)

  • August 30, 2020
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My apologies if this has been successfully solved elsewhere. The best I could tell, my issue was presented here in 2012, but I have not yet come across a solution that fixes it, and that thread is now locked.

 

All I am trying to do is export some PDFs as images to manipulate for a video. However, it appears that some kind of color conversion is happening on export, forcing all of the colors to look dull. I cannot find any settings for .png or .jpg exports that would handle this, but I am seeing that when I change my color spaces for RGB or CMYK, the export colors vary slightly, implying that a conversion is happening. However, I don't really understand why a conversion to CMYK would be automatic and fully forced for computer-image exports, and I would like to bypass any conversions of this nature to maintain the colors that are being displayed on the screen in Acrobat.

 

I'm less concerned about this particular instance - I've already moved to taking a screen capture of the PDF for what I need. But for future situations, it would be really helpful to be able to maintain colors in what would seem to be a fairly rudimentary feature, as this has been an issue in larger projects as well.

 

See below for samples from the project I was working on. Left ones are the colors as displayed in Acrobat, right are after exporting. Final export format (.png vs .jpg) makes no difference.

 


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One thought: if you have Photoshop, it's generally much better at this job than Acrobat; more flexible, and more control over things like resolution and colour.

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Pat Maguire
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March 18, 2021

I had the same problem with saving PDFs from illustrator and I went to OUTPUT when saving the PDF and set "Color Conversion" to "Convert to Destination" and it fixed the pdf colors. 

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    August 30, 2020

    One thought: if you have Photoshop, it's generally much better at this job than Acrobat; more flexible, and more control over things like resolution and colour.

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      JGiaffoAuthor
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      August 31, 2020

      Thank you! It didn't even occur to me that Photoshop may be able to open PDFs. This works perfectly for what I've wanted.

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