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Illustrator Shows CMYK Color Profile Warning on Every File Open

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
February 25, 2019
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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?

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Geowel31355519aob8

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Go to edit Assign profile and select "Dont colour manage this document, pop up will dissapear"

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misobetter

Participating Frequently

That is exactly how it IS set for a document which I have just opened and I received the error message. Still get the error messages almost every time I open any document.

Also, in Color Settings:

Color Management Policies are both set to Off, and the Profile Mismatches checkboxes are all unchecked.

There doesn't seem to be anything else I could do...

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naz35805936op1p

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Adjust your Adobe application's color settings, ensuring proper CMYK profiles. Check and set the color profiles for both the document and linked content. Save color profiles with the document and consider resetting preferences or reinstalling the application if the issue persists.

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Herbie299886866752

Participating Frequently

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

Community Expert

and which settings are they?

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Herbie299886866752

Participating Frequently

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.

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Anonymous

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

Community Expert

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

By @6159229

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.

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Anonymous

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

sharp_hands16B8

Community Expert

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_lis86Author

Participant

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

Monika Gause

Community Expert

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.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

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_lis86Author

Participant

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

Community Expert

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.

rcraighead

Legend

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

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