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haneadino
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June 25, 2019
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100% black is not being right for printing and coming out as 4 colours when exported as a pdf

  • June 25, 2019
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I am facing a big problem about the 100% black is not being right for printing and coming out as 4 colours, from my InDesign document when I export it as a pdf. My swatch for the black text  in Indesign is set at C=0 M=0 Y=0 and K=100, which seems not to work as100% BLACK after I have export it so pdf? Please can anybody help me, so I can get 100% black text in my PDF?

The only thing I want AFTER I export the pdf, is that the BLACK TEXT are  100% black, not a 4 colour rich black, in the exported pdf. I also have the same issue in Illustrator? So what is going on?

Thank you so muh!

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Correct answer haneadino

I think I have to uninstall Acrobat DC. And reinstall it again


Hi everybody!!!

The problem was my Acrobat!!

I uninstalled it,  and then I have reinstalled it and now it works!!!! See video: Loom | Free Screen & Video Recording Software

Thanks a lot everybody for your help!!!!

 

I don't know if this is a bug, but 2 others of my friends had the same problem. So I have to contact them and ask them to uninstall the Acrobat.

Again Thank you!!

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rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 25, 2019

Export using the PDF/X-4 preset and check the output values in Acrobat Pro's Output Preview.

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haneadinoAuthor
Inspiring
June 25, 2019

This didn't help?

Here is a video: Loom | Free Screen & Video Recording Software

Colin Flashman
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Colin FlashmanCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 25, 2019

Is it just this file, or ANY file?

If you were to make a new print document and copy and paste that text frame into the new document, and try make a PDF out of that, what happens?

There is a thread from a little while ago that may delve into this issue further: Changing uneditable rgb black to cmyk black


The only other thing I could suggest is to package this particular file you are having issues with, upload it to a service such as dropbox, and let us see if we can replicate the fault on our machines.

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!
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