Printing an InDesign document to a digital printer.

[Anndrea]

If a file was originally created in Illustrator and a PDF was created, if someone places this pdf in Indesign, will it compromise the colors?

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[Monika Gause]

That totally depends on color and color management settings in Illustrator, InDesign and in the PDF options.

[Srishti Bali]

Hi Anndrea,

Thanks for reaching out. If the colors looks fine in exported PDF, then it should look fine in InDesign as well. Two things to which you can check are:

• Color sync all Adobe applications: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/keeping-colors-consistent.html
• When PDF is imported in InDesign, it gets placed as an image. Make sure that High quality display is selected in Display Performance for better rendering of images.
  

Regards,

Srishti