I get this message "When spot colors are used with transparency, changing them to process colors outside of illustrator can generate unexpected results" when I open the ai file.
When I save as a pdf on the Output tab I select No Conversion for Color Conversion but my pdf file still shows a different color.
This file was not created by me; it was created by the customer. So it is important that I preserve the color settings.
The pdf will not be used for printing but it will be used to inspect if the file is correct this is why I would like the color to be correct.
If you save your file with the preset PDFx-1a or PDFx-4, your file will maintain the correct spot colour name and consistency. Your starting point has to be a cmyk document. With this preset, your PDF will be perfectly formatted.
When I save as a pdf on the Output tab I select No Conversion for Color Conversion but my pdf file still shows a different color.
The warning comes because somewhere in that file there is transparency: reduced opacity, blending modes, whatever. And there are spot colors. It warns you of conversions that can be done in other applications. Such as when the file has been placed into InDesign and you change the colors by using the Ink manager.
About the changing of colors that you see in the PDF:
1. what exactly do you export?
2. what exactly is the nature of that change? Something you see on screen? In which app? Or something you measure?
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