Ai File looks different after saving

[teamk16407686]

Hi there, I hope I can describe my problem in english so that you can unterstand what I mean (my mother tongue is german 🙂 ) 

Last week me and my colleagues finally got the newest CC 2020, now the first problem occured.

I downloaded a AI file from Adobe Stock (# 196019218), I open it and it looks fine.

Original FileSaving

I'm deleting for example the text layer and save the file, I get a new file with [Converted], so far so good, nothing new. It looks good in Illustrator.
New File

But when I take a look at the mac preview, it looks really distorted and when I'm placing the new AI File in InDesign it's also not right, when I'm exporting a PDF from ID it looks like the preview. I already tried different settings when saving in AI, but it doesn't change. 

Also when I'm saving in EPS it works fine. I really don't know what's wrong. I have this problem not with every AI File from Stock, but with some (#215812761 this one too). 

PreviewIn ID

I work with an iMac Retina 5k. 27-inch, 2019 and Catalina 10.15.5.
Thank you in advance for your help 🙂 

[Simmer1]

Hi

Is your working colour profile the same as the Adobe Stock file?

You can check this by going Edit> Assign Profile.

Sim

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

These files only work in RGB color mode.

They absolutely need the correct color profile attached so that you have a slight chance to have them converted correctly in InDesign, but I wouldn't count on the correct conversion anyway.

Your color management settings in Illustrator and InDesign would need to be synchronized so that you can get a somewhat precise preview of the result in Illustrator. But I wouldn't count on it either.

What I would do is export them as raster based files from Illustrator at a sufficient resolution and then place that in InDesign. There are raster effects all over the place anyway.

[Ashutosh_Mishra]

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