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All spots to process grayed out in PDF presets

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
June 11, 2019
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The most recent update to InDesign 19 has made the PDF preset option (under output) of "all spots to process" no longer available (it is grayed out). I am using a profile based on PDF/X-4 with color conversion set to convert to destination with destination set to Working CMYK - U.S. Web Coated which is what my printer requested and which I have been using for this project for over a year. My document contains may advertisements created by others which contain spot colors which must be converted to CMYK for the final output.

Why is the all spots to process no longer available.

I do see that if I select as the destination "no color conversion", the spot colors are removed, but I hesitate to go that route as it is not what my printer requires.

What are others doing in this case?

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manal shanableh

Legend

I noticed that if there is no spot colors in the document, this option will be grayed out.

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Manal,

see into reply 4 above where a screenshot is showing a very strange state of the checkbox:

[-] All Spots to Process

Regards,

Uwe

manal shanableh

Legend

seems like some inks checked as --All spot to process but not all... meas that this check box work for selected inks.. not for ALL.

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Cyndee,

did you check the settings of the Ink Manager ?

There you could convert all Spots to Process.

Regards,
Uwe

C

Cyndee MAuthor

Inspiring

Yes, sorry, I wasn't clear enough. It is in Ink Manager with the option of all spots to color is grayed out.

rob day

Community Expert

Rob, you are correct that almost all of them are CMYK swatches, but there are 3 that are not and on PDF export, those 3 show as separate plates in Acrobat's output preview.

However, I made a new blank document to taste, and when using only 2 spot colors, 1 CMYK and 1 RGB, the ink manager DID have the option of all spots to process.

So the problem is obviously within this document, but as the spots come from outside ads, there is no way for me to remove them (other than converting all ads to CMYK first in Acrobat -- a lot of files to process). Is there any other option?

I don’t think All Spots to Process should ever be grayed out, even when they are wrapped in a PDF. You my try deleting your InDesign caches folder (Saved Data), which can be the culprit with UI problems.

Another way to convert to process is select all of the spot swatches and do it from Swatch Options. you should be able to do this even when a spot comes in from a placed file:

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