Error Message

[Fleur_de_lis86]

An error message appears every time I open files "your current color settings honor CMYK profiles in linked content but profiles were set to be ignored when this document was created." Is there a setting or something I can adjust to make this window stop popping up every time I open files?

[rcraighead]

There's usually a "Don't show the message again" checkbox. I take it this message does not have one?

[Monika Gause]

set up your color management accordingly.

Did you create these documents or did someone else?

if someone else ask them about how they want color management

it‘s a good thing Illustrator shows these warnings, because surrely you don‚t want to mess up color

[Fleur_de_lis86]

I work in a company and all of the files are on a company server.  I do not know how to fix the color management.  There is not a checkbox to avoid seeing the message again.

[Monika Gause]

Setup of color management depends on a lot of variables related to your production workflow and even your location.

So please have the experts in your company set it up for you.

[mark-heaps]

This happens when people work in differing color spaces like CMYK vs. RGB, and there are even micro-levels like different gamuts of RGB or CMYK. So Monika is right, you may want to check before making a gross change to workflow incase any of those files are supposed to be in a specific space and your machine isn't set that way. However, if you are confident this isn't an issue you can go to EDIT > COLOR SETTINGS and change some properties here for your machine. At the bottom you can see it shows Checkbox for Profile Mismatches and to "Ask When Opening", etc... if you uncheck these the problem should go away.

[Fleur_de_lis86]

Thos boxes are already unchecked.  The message keeps coming up.

[Monika Gause]

It's this setting that has been set up differently by the creator of the file.

And in order to not mess up the colors of the artwork, you will need to check and double check what was intended.

Please learn about color management. It has been there for 20 years. It won't go away. And check the file and your settings with your supervisor and with the client.

[Herbie299886866752]

I get this same error message when I make the file, save it, and immediately open it. 

[Guest]

A solution that may work (seems to work for me):

- Go to "Edit > Color Settings".

- Set "CMYK" to "Preserve Embedded Profiles".

- Open your document (the one that provoke the warning).

- The warning will appear ("WARNING: Your current color settings honor CMYK profiles in linked content but profiles were set to be ignored when this document was created.").

- Click "Continue".

- Add a modification to the document (like adding and then removing a shape).

- Save the document (using either "File > Save as > Illustrator file" or "File > Save").

- Reopen the document.

- The warning (may) have disappeared.

[Monika Gause]

- Set "CMYK" to "Preserve Embedded Profiles".

By @Deleted User

That setting may lead to CMYK to CMYK conversions turning 100K to muddy black, which is something you might or might not want.

It's very risky to change to this setting for the sole purpose of getting rid of a warning that doesn't do any harm to your file.

[Monika Gause]

That setting may lead to CMYK to CMYK conversions turning 100K to muddy black, which is something you might or might not want.

It's very risky to change to this setting for the sole purpose of getting rid of a warning that doesn't do any harm to your file.

[Guest]

Thank you for your feedback. Do you think choose one of the 3 others option whould be better? (because I need to choose one anyway)
1) Off
2) Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles)

3) Convert to Working Space

[Monika Gause]

For vector content "Preserve numbers" is the best choice, because CMYK vector content most of the time cannot be handled by the ICC based conversion workflows. Converting colors based on ICC profiles will make a mess of your colors most of the time.

For raster artwork (and this also affects raster images placed into your vector files) you sometimes need to do profile based CMYK to CMYK conversions.

I have mine set to Preserve numbers. YMMV.

[Herbie299886866752]

There must be a glitch in the color settings handling of AI, becuase I get this message everytime I open an AI file I just made! I've used the same color settings synchronized for years, and just recently I'm getting this error. (Illustratpe 28.2)

[Monika Gause]

and which settings are they?

[Herbie299886866752]

sRGB and US Sheetfed Coated -- convert to destination.

Even when I make a new AI file with these settings, close it, then open it, I get that dang warning message.  Every—time.

[Monika Gause]

How are you creating new files? Based on templates?

And please show a screenshot of the warning.

[Herbie299886866752]

I am not using a template, but just the normal Command-N New File dialog box. I just made a new file, added 2 filled boxes, then saved and closed. Openned it, and got the color error message again. (There is no linked content in the file, as well.)

Here is the error message:

[Monika Gause]

Can you reset your preferences and try again?

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html

This will erase all your settings.

[Herbie299886866752]

Alas, I tried that, hoping it would clear things out and fix it, but it did not. I removed the Preferences file and launched AI. Made a file, saved and closed it, opened it, and still got that message.

Thank you for the suggestion, though.

[Ton Frederiks]

What happens if you change your color settings like in Monika's example with the fat red line: Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles) ? Yours is still on Convert to Working Space

[Herbie299886866752]

Yeah, I could do thay, but then content would not be converted the my working space. 

The problem is, why is AI wanring me about something that is not applicable? Made in this color space, saved in this color space, then opened in this same color space. 

[Ton Frederiks]

Converting CMYK to another CMYK working space can lead to things like fuzzy small white text on a black background.

It will be harder to keep black and greys neutral when they get converted to multi-inks black.

That's why it is generally better to leave that conversion to apps/rips that can handle that better.

Sometimes that is nessecary, when you retarget your design for a very different printing process (offset/newsprint).

[misobetter]

I have this same exact problem and it is driving me mad. Whatever I do with the settings I still get this error message. It must be a bug (still prsent in the latest v28.6).

In Color Settings I have the three checkboxes in Profile Mismatches and Missing Profiles all unchecked, which should surely stop the annoying warning messages.

Color management is NOT important for the type of work I do (architectural CAD), as color rendering being absolutely correct is just not necessary. So dealing with these dialogs even when the warnings are switched of is really annoying!

It is particularly annoying because I cannot even see why I am getting these warnings - the settings seem to me to be such that there should not be a warning at all.

[misobetter]

Here is a screenshot of my color settings dialog, but I STILL get the error message when I open any illustrator file. Please tell me if there is any setting in this dialog that would cause these dialogs to be displayed?