Getting Color Settings dialog box while opening an Illustrator File.

[Mike Witherell]

Hi gang,

Every time I open an AI file into Illustrator, up pops a Color Settings dialog box that I must OK. I wish it wouldn't pop up at all. After all, I have already set up synchronized color management. How can I turn it off?

Mike Witherell in Washington DC

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This is odd. Check your edit/Color Settings  dialog box to see if there is something odd selected there or in edit/preferences.

In any case you might want to restore your preferences to default and see if it corrects the problem. Of course if you have lots of things changed in preferences, you will have to reset them to your taste.

How to set preferences in Illustrator

[Mike Witherell]

The dialog box says:

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

[Monika Gause]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Mike+Witherell  schrieb

The dialog box says:

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

The warning says that this document has been created in a non-secure color workflow.

The secure workflow is to ignore profiles and instead keep the numbers.

You can now set your color management to that setting, which is usually something you'd want to avoid. But maybe whoever created the document wanted it that way. You will need to find out.

The alternative would be to keep your setting and click OK to that warning every time. Personally I would not want to turn off those warnings, because usually a mismatch is something you would want to know about. If the creator of that file doesn't care about color management, maybe it would be a good thing to make them aware.

[Nikhil R Gupta]

Hello Mike,

You may try the below steps .

1. Open Illustrator and make sure that there is no Ai file opened.

2. Go to Edit and Color Settings.

3. Make sure missing profiles and profile Mismatches option is unchecked.

4. Try to open the file again and check.

Thanks,

Nikhil Gupta

[Mike Witherell]

Thanks Nikhil, but those settings switches are already off.

[Mike Witherell]

When I first searched the forums on this topic, I didn't get any related results to read. But after trying again a few days later, I see many have written about this topic. I am practicing a holistic color management workflow using calibrated monitors, and essentially I want to simply force this dialog box not to show. It shows up on anything and everything new and old. Some describe it as being next to a bug or poor design or poorly worded. Currently, tho, I see there is no place to turn off this message.

My holistic CM is to work on  a calibrated monitor. I visit Photoshop to set up strict color management, choosing to Convert to Working Space permanently for pixel-based images.

Then I go to Bridge and send out the do-it-this-way command to ID, Acrobat, and AI. I do not make any changes in AI or ID color management; instead leaving it all to PS to call the tune.