"Your current color settings discard CMYK profiles in linked content" error message

[_George_Coghill_]

I keep getting the following error message:

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

every time I open an Illustrator document. I have no idea how this setting was set and no idea how to turn it off. I am just using the standard N America Prepress color setting in Bridge.

I have tried opening new documents using the supplied Ai CS4 new document profiles, no luck. So I am assuming it's a pref that is set in the app itself, yet I have no idea how to change this setting? I don't even see anything referring to a setting like this.

I found this archived discussion: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b58d84 which had no resolution. Thought I would throw it out there again and see if anyone has been able to fix this. It drives me insane having to deal with that error every time I open a saved document.

[Guest]

just do the following:

menu edit > color settings > color management policies

change the settings to 'convert to working spaces'

unchek the three boxes 'ask blah-blah-blah...'

you`re done.

note that all color profiles wil be substitude by your own profile (standard N America Prepress color setting)

bye.

[skvilhaug]

I get the same error message.  I tried to follow the advice of Unchecking the three "ask..." boxes, and it did not fix the issue.

This has ONLY been an issue since my company upgraded to CS4.

Please help!

[Wade_Zimmerman1]

You guys probably are using linked images and therefore the message which is unavoidable unless your profiles match and you probably want them to match, so the way to avoid this would be to sync your color settings in all your Adobe applications and use the same color space for the document and the placed images.

More than likely you have CMYK document with RGB images?

[skvilhaug]

Wade - I hear what you are saying regarding a profile mismatch with linked images, however that is not the issue in my case.  We are getting this error message with files that have NO linked content, as well as those with links.

Also, when it appears with the items that DO have linked images, I have checked and all those images are already in the correct profile.  We made sure to have everyone set the profile we is in Adobe Bridge so as to avoid profile mismatches.

[sincere_Radiance16B8]

I am ANNOYED by the same error message, too. It's a MAJOR PAIN. Get rid of it, Adobe!

I also get the error with files that have no linked content at all.

And, I have already gone into Bridge and created a custom setting to force conversion of all files to Adobe RGB and SWOP and turned off all 3 warnings and Synchronized across the Suite. Same thing. Always the same message. Even with files I've created completely from scratch after synchronizing settings, meaning they were definitely NOT created under any old color settings that honored CMYK profiles.

This is not 'designed behavior' for Illustrator. It's a bug. And an annoying one because the error message also interrupts SCRIPTING automation.......

Anyone find a solution to completely disabling this error message?

[muditsingh]

To disable the alert via scripting you can use the following line:

{

app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS;

}

Put it in a function with null return and call the fuction where you want to supress any error dialog.

Mind you this would supress all the alert dialogs of the Illustrator App. 

[sincere_Radiance16B8]

Thanks for the reminder about the application level warning function options. But, as you noted, that will turn off all warnings, which in some cases you may not want....

I'm wondering if the CMYK honoring profiles message will go away if I recreate a fresh copy of a blank CMYK user prefs template file?.....anyone try that yet?....don't have time to test right now, but will later...

[bagonterman]

That works...

[Richard33315560okpp]

I agree. I can create a file from scratch then open it back up and it still gives me the message. So, the profiles are exactly the same since I created the file and have them open in Gracol CMYK.

[kpfair68]

you are wonderful!!!! Thank you!!!!

[matias.valo]

So your way to fix this is hide warnings?

[Monika Gause]

matias.valo  schrieb

So your way to fix this is hide warnings?

There is nothing to be fixed with the warning.

The only thing that needs fixing is not knowing about color management.

[Cheryllion]

I'm glad someone asked this. This fix seems to just cover up the problem. I would like to understand exactly what it's seeing and how to fix incoming art or what my workspace management policies should be and why. I can design stuff but I don't understand all the technical coloring stuff that my presses need.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

If you receive files from other people then the only way to get rid of the error is to set up your environment just as they did.

This warning is just a notification that different settings have been used. The setting the warning is reminding you of, concerns how CMYK profiles are handled. Will a profile mismatch cause Illustrator to convert color according to the different profiles? Or will Illustrator keep the numbers and discard the different profile.

In CMYK most of the time you want to keep the numbers, because you don't want 100 K black to be converted into something dirty and you don't want a 100% yellow converted to something that has some percent of dark ink in it.

[Harmonious_Wave50BB]

But how do I set up my environment? Simply speaking where do I go to change the settings?

[Monika Gause]

Edit > Color Settings

[brooked7202254]

I signed in just to tell you THANK YOU - you just fixed my problem and saved me so much grief!! 

[Guest]

Well, i am not expert and i dont know if i make something wrong, but i have the same problem with the error alert about the color settings in CS5, and what i did work for me just fine.

menu edit > color settings > color management policies

change the settings to 'convert to working spaces'

Close the program,

I went to Library - Preferences - Adobe illustrator CS5 Settings - en_US and delete the Ai color settings file....i re-open the program and it automatically generate a new ai color setting file and thats it...

I think it can work also for the cs4.

Hope it works for anybody having the same problem.

[Arty Greg]

olemexico - thank you so much ... it worked! I'm using CS3 - have been for many years without this issue but just recently it started up.. every single time I open any file no matter how I created it.. linked files or not ' error message 'your current settings honour cmyk profiles in linked content... yadda yadda' - driving me nuts!  but your solution has fixed it.

Not sure if the glitch started from recently trying out creative cloud or a job I've been working on that required using live-trace on RGB jpgs, editing, then saving as CMYK... hmm?

Anyways - thought I'd report it works on CS3 as well - made my day as I have an aweful lot of files to work on!

[meganw39929130]

Is there any other options to change this? My settings don't list it the way you've stated.

I have "edit..color settings.. and then nothing that says emulate adobe illustrator"

[Monika Gause]

meganw39929130 schrieb:

Is there any other options to change this? My settings don't list it the way you've stated.

I have "edit..color settings.. and then nothing that says emulate adobe illustrator"

Exactly what is it that you want to change?

Emulating Illustrator 6 won't solve any problems, it will only create some.

Emulating Illustrator 6 has only made sense in the days of Illustrator 6. And then you didn't need to emulate it.

[syed_ifthequer]

Hai every one....!

just do the following:

menu edit > color settings > settings > emulate adobe illustrator( 1st option )

I hope every one problem get solve.

Thank you & Happy to help you all.

[Monika Gause]

syed ifthequer schrieb:

Hai every one....!

just do the following:

menu edit > color settings > settings > emulate adobe illustrator( 1st option )

I hope every one problem get solve.

No. Just no. Don't.

Learn about color management instead of pretending to turn it off.

[markb360]

Finally!!!! After the most recent CC Illustrator version, (27.7) I kept getting the same error message.  This fixed you. THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!