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antonk114510
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January 8, 2025
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Problem with two gradients disappearing Indesign to Illustrator

  • January 8, 2025
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Hi!

I have a problem when exporting two CMYK gradient colors from Indesign(2025) and then opening up the document in Illustrator(2025).

 

I export it as an .pdf CMYK Fogra 39 but as soon as I open it up two of the gradients in the document disappears.

 

I will Attach the indesign document "Utredning_FLH" and its the two first gradients that disappears.

 

Some of you have any idea of what could be the problem?

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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January 8, 2025

Exporting means what? You export a PDF and then open the PDF in Illustrator?

 

Illustrator is not a general purpose PDF editor. It might or might not work and when it doesn't work, just rebuild the gradient

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antonk114510Author
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January 8, 2025

Yes, exporting it as an .Pdf from ID then open it up in illustrator.

 

I usually get .pdf documents from clients and then open them (to put cutlines bleeds etc.) trough .ai and rarley get any problem but with this file it didnt work and was just curious what could be the problem. Also to tell the client what they can do to do the .pdf file correct.

Bill Silbert
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Bill SilbertCommunity Expert
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January 8, 2025

Did you actually have a native InDesign file with the colors applied through InDesign's swatches panel or did the InDesign file contain imported pdfs? If the latter is the case then importing from InDesign would not produce editable pdfs in Illustrator. Did the client provide the pdfs that were brought in to the InDesign file? If so then then those should be directly imported into Illustrator. Also, please note that any pdfs that are essentially images cannot be edited at all in Illustrator. For any chance of editability the original pdf will need to have been created from a "live" file.

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