Document Color Mode & Convert to CMYK Failing?
If anyone can help with this one I'll be so grateful.
So I start a new CMYK document and trust that any colors I use when creating objects in that document will be CMYK, right? A simple example: colored background for a trifold brochure plus some text. Document color mode is showing as CMYK in the document tab and when I go to File- Document Color Mode- CMYK. When I'm done and export to high quality print or press quality PDF, then send it to the printer, I get a proof back from the printer before it's ready to go and the colors look way over or under saturated. I ask what's going on with the color and they respond that I sent my document in RGB. Eh? I open the file back up in Illustrator and check; document color mode is CMYK. But then I select any colored objects throughout the document and go to Edit- Edit Colors and see that Convert to RGB is grayed out while everything else is open to select. Does that mean the object is in RGB? I assume so. I click "Convert to CMYK" and again assume it's good to go as CMYK. I do this with the other colored objects in the doc, then I check that my work was not in vain, that I did indeed convert everything to CMYK. But it's still showing grayed out Convert to RGB and everything else is open to select just like before. Does that mean that all my colored objects are in RGB? How in the heck do I make objects CMYK if not the ways I just described? Where am I going wrong?!
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