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February 1, 2018
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Printing to PDF for color document

  • February 1, 2018
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I am working with a color document in Adobe Acrobat DC.  I am making comments and editing objects and I want to send the document to someone else but I don't want them to be able to edit the comments I've made.  The only way I know to do this is by printing to PDF.  When I do this, however, the colors come out much more dull and light in color.  Is there a color setting I can select to fix this?  The colors on the original document are very bright and vibrant and when I print it to PDF it comes out dull and hard to read.  Thanks!

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Correct answer chelsead8825893

I actually figured it out by clicking the Advanced button and changing the Color Handling setting to "Same As Source (No Color Management).

Thanks for the help!

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AnandSri
Legend
February 1, 2018

Great! Good to hear that and thank you for sharing the workaround. Nice job troubleshooting that.

Give us a shout if you need any assistance with Acrobat/Reader/Document Cloud Services in future.

Regards,

Anand Sri.

chelsead8825893AuthorCorrect answer
Participant
February 1, 2018

I actually figured it out by clicking the Advanced button and changing the Color Handling setting to "Same As Source (No Color Management).

Thanks for the help!

AnandSri
Legend
February 1, 2018

Hello chelsead8825893

As per the description above, you are getting a dull PDF when you choose Print to PDF, Is that correct?

Please refer and try the solutions from the following KB docs which discusses the similar scenario Dull, muted colors when creating PDF Link: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/961510

Printing color PDFs (Adobe Acrobat Pro) Link: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/printing-color-pdfs-acrobat-pro.html

Advanced PDF print settings, Adobe Acrobat Link: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/advanced-pdf-print-settings.html

Let us know how it goes.

Regards,

Anand Sri.