Adobe Illustrator warnings GO AWAY

[FPS_Fish]

This Illustrator warning:

"Your current color settings honor CMYK profiles in linked content but profiles were set to be ignored when this document was created."

comes up for EVERY SINGLE FILE we receive, download, purchase.

Yet these warnings are constantly there.

I honestly have no memory of this always happening in Illustrator in earlier versions.

HOW DO YOU GET RID OF THESE‽

And don't say "you have to work in the profile they were set up in."

I'm a video editor and animator,

I want to work in RGB

and frankly I don't really care about a colour profile mismatch.

I want the warnings banished.

I absolutely cannot stand OK dialogues.

Extra clicks for nothing seems like some kind of punishment for something I didn't do.

As far as programmers are concerned,

I think it should just be a warning symbol that appears in the bottom of the frame without an "ok" button

or maybe a temporary floating warning that appears off to the side.

[Anubhav M]

Hello @

Thanks for reaching out. Would you mind disabling the notifications for Profile Mismatch and Missing Profiles under Illustrator's color settings to see if it helps?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav

[Monika Gause]

That will not solve it. It won't even help not embedding a profile. Besides: turning off the warnings is the worst idea concerning color management and will cause a boatload of additional issues.

https://youtu.be/8D4tHrlsA7A

[FPS_Fish]

Respectfully Monika...not it won't cause me a boatload of issues. It's a CMYK file that I'm going to move into an RGB environment. I have to. Unless somehow the world makes all TVs CMYK compliant, I can't get around this. I know there will be a colour shift. I'm preparred for that. Not the end of the world. And definitely not worth warning me about every single time.

[Monika Gause]

The warning is not caused by transferring a file between color modes.

It'scaused by the Policies for CMYK conversion. That is what you have toset up in the same way as was set up for the document. Ignoring profiles for CMYK documents will not affect your RGB workflow.

[FPS_Fish]

Excellent! Now... how do I get rid of those warnings that don't affect my workflow? Or have it automatically convert the files and do so without giving me a warning?

[Monika Gause]

The warnings will only go away when you set up your color management differently. As I said: the CMYK policies need to be set up differently.

[FPS_Fish]

...and...how should I set them up? Bearing in mind, the warnings come from files whose origin and colour profiles are unknown to me when I receive them. 

[Monika Gause]

Color management policies for CMYK has to be set to ignore profiles. If you get files from different people, you might have to set that back, because those warnings cannot be suppressed.

It's all in the video BTW

[Monika Gause]

And also: turning off the warnings might indeed hurt your colors.

Particularly when you open RGB files into your RGB workflow.

[FPS_Fish]

Yeah. Still want to supress them. At times I can open dozens of file sat once. Every single file "warns" me. I have to click "ok" for each and every file.  I hate it. I want to stop it.

[Monika Gause]

If you collaborate with professional print people, then most probably they have their color rules set to "Ignore profiles". If you set up yours in the same way, then you will not see the warning you are referring to.

As for the different color profile warnings: you do want to have those turned on, because otherwise you might ruin your colors in your files when copying objects back and forth in your RGB files. This forum is full of threads about exactly that. And people only notice the difference in the very last moment, because they had the warnings turned off.

[FPS_Fish]

I realize that at this point I'm probably coming off as a jerk.

And I apologize f that is the case. 

But I want to be clear:

this is happening with every single file given to me regardless of source (unless I make it myself)

No settings change this.

And this did not used to happen.

Before...when it did not happen...no colour issues were coming to light.

No files burst into flames.

No international peace treaties were violated. 

No babies died.

I get a lot of files, especially from stock companies - and I don't get to collaborate with the designers.

I can and usually do manipulate and change all the colours to my liking.

I do not require a warning...at all.

The warning provides me with nothing. 

No useful information.

In fact it's made worse by it's frequency.

It's like if I got into my car and a warning buzzer went off telling me my door was open each time I opened the door to get in,

that would be both annoying and totally useless.

After a while I would probably find the little buzzer unit that made that sound and tear it out with pliers.

I'm asking someone, maybe a programmer at Adobe, to make it stop.

Just a preference I could check on or off.

At that point I could get a warning.

I'd even be willing to compromise and say each time I start the software

it might warn me on one file and then go away until I restart.

I'm an adult.

I think I can handle it.

[Monika Gause]

If you want to make a feature request, please do so at https://illustrator.uservoice.com

Find people that support your request, because numbers matter.

is it always the exact same ""Your current color settings ...." warning? Or different ones? Always the same should not happen when you change the "color policies" setting as described in my video.

If it still does, maybe reset the preferences. 

[FPS_Fish]

I tried. But it won't let me log in with my password (????). So I went to my Premiere feature request page, backed up, chose Illustrator and then chose feature request. 

[Monika Gause]

You need to create a new account. It's not an Adobe site.

[FPS_Fish]

This Illustrator warning:
"Your current color settings honor CMYK profiles in linked content but profiles were set to be ignored when this document was created."
comes up for EVERY SINGLE FILE we receive, download, purchase.
Yet these warnings are constantly there.

I honestly have no memory of this always happening in Illustrator in earlier versions.

Can we have an option to bypass these?
And please don't say "you have to work in the profile they were set up in."
when we don't know what they were set up in.

I absolutely cannot stand OK dialogues.
Extra clicks for nothing seems like some kind of punishment for something I didn't do.
I think it should just be a warning symbol that appears in the bottom of the frame without an "ok" button
or maybe a temporary floating warning that appears off to the side.
Thanks for listening.

[Monika Gause]

If you want to make a feature request to the engineers, please post it to Uservoice. It makes no sense here. They only read Uservoice.

They are the only people who can turn off that warning.

The setting you need to match is either the policy set to ignore CMYK profiles or to respect them.

[FPS_Fish]

Anubhav  ...already fully disabled. The warnings still keep coming.

[TimO7712]

Having the same issue here with the newest Illustrator upgrade. 

How do we turn it off? haha, I see it's not possible as far as today, 12/9/24

[Ton Frederiks]

There are 2 posts on uservoice waiting to be voted:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/44399508-annoyi...

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/322...