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November 29, 2024
Question

Adobe Illustrator warnings GO AWAY

  • November 29, 2024
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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.

 

2 replies

Anubhav M
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 29, 2024

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
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 29, 2024

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

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 29, 2024

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.

 


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.