RGB images Illustrator 2024 and 2025

[Sylvain31032703oiqy]

Hi,

I noticed that Illustrator 2025 convert automatically RGB images to cmyk when generating pdf. Ai 2024 was keeping images in its original mode. Any idea?

Thank you,

[Ton Frederiks]

What are your PDF settings?

[Sylvain31032703oiqy]

Hi,

I use Illustrator default or Pdf-x4, everything without conversion and images are converted to cmyk in Ai 2025, Ai 2024 is not converting to cmyk. Thanks,

[Ton Frederiks]

That is strange, did you check if in the Output section it still says Color Conversion > No Conversion?

And did you check the result in Acrobat?

[Sylvain31032703oiqy]

I suspect that this is an automatic conversion when opening the file in Ai 2025

[Ton Frederiks]

You open the pdf file in Illustrator?

[Sylvain31032703oiqy]

No, it is a Ai file

[Ton Frederiks]

And it is a CMYK Illustrator file? And the images are linked or embedded?

[Srishti Bali]

Hi @Sylvain31032703oiqy

Thank you for sharing the details. Could you please provide a screenshot of the output settings in the "Save Adobe PDF" dialog box when exporting the PDF?

Regards,

Srishti

[Sylvain31032703oiqy]

Hello, here are the 2 set-up. Please note that Ai 2024 works fine on this.