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Color Settings - Reverting to Emulate Adobe Indesign 2.0 CMS Off

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March 17, 2021
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Hi - My color settings keep reverting from 'North America General Purpose 2' to 'Emulate Adobe Indesign 2.0 CMS Off' - this is occuring frequently. I am using MacOS Big Sur 11.0.1 and Indesign 16.1. I have not had this issue occur previously.

Any help appreciated - thanks.

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Correct answer rob day

It might actually be this:

⁨Users⁩ ▸ ⁨username ▸ ⁨Library⁩ ▸ ⁨Preferences⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe⁩ ▸ ⁨Color ▸ ⁨ACEConfigCache2.lst

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/photoshop-update-causes-indesign-color-management-settings-to-be-reset/td-p/11891667

rob day

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I don’t think the bug is related to sync’ing—the latest update(s) seem to turn off CM in InDesign and Illustrator whether you sync or not.

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Laubender

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Hi alison.aaha,

there is no need to synch color management via Adobe Bridge

It could be convenient, yes, but there is no need to do this.

InDesign, Illustrator and PhotoShop, they all share the same panel when you have to switch to a different color setting.

The most options to define a custom color setting and save it as csf file is with PhotoShop. So define the csf in PhotoShop and load it with InDesign, Illustrator and PhotoShop.

However, you should look into your crashing issues with Adobe Bridge.

But this here is the wrong forum to do this. Better ask here in the Bridge Forum:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge/bd-p/bridge?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all

And with all related questions for color managements go to:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/color-management/bd-p/Color-Management?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all

Ah. There is already a thread underway that could be very interesting for all facing that bug:

Color settings (from Bridge: Synchronize settings) change all the time
massimob47359698, Mar 12, 2021

https://community.adobe.com/t5/color-management/color-settings-from-bridge-synchronize-settings-change-all-the-time/td-p/11890733

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

Yes, there's no NEED to use Bridge, but it does help when setting the same set of settings across the suite.

What I noticed when I was dealing with this issue on Mar 12 (after the latest updates), is that none of the programs, including Bridge, would keep any attempt to change settings back to what they should have been. In my case, I have a Custom set I use across the suite. After the bug, Bridge had reset to one of the built in sets, and the individual apps reset to diffrent ones.

Once I deleted the Cache file, I was able to reset to my Custom set in Bridge, and behold, all the other programs popped back to my Custom settings without even touching them individually.

I've been fine ever since, and without doing the Photoshop rollback that was suggested.

Lukas Engqvist

Community Expert

Syning colours in bridge is only really useful if you are in a closed loop workflow, or you only are working towards one output profile. I can imagine working for a publisher that only prints on one type of stock is such a case. It is a simple solution because it lets you feel you have managed colours, but if you are working towards multiple output channels and want to have paper qualities such as Coated, uncoated and newsprint you ought to be changing the colour settings throughout your day. Now if you are working to a fixed output intent once you have configured your applications you won't need to change them.

If you are using multiple channels then you may also be creating assets for multiple outputs. And that all open assets are for one channel only is unlikely… in which case you may not want to sync the applications because as you set the settings for one job you are changing the settings for other programs which may ruin another job.

The one setting I miss in the csf for Photoshop is it does not have a Safe CMYK oprion (for CMYK preserve numbers). So by all means create the csf in Photoshop, but then open it in Illustrator and modify so you can have the CMYK preserve numbers (Pure black).

InIndesign you will want to be switching between profies matching your paper, and ought to have sRGB as the default RGB because it "s" means standard and is the correct profile to assign unassigned assets. It is also the assumed profile for RGB values from Pantone, and ought to be the base profile for brand manuals since it also is the default for office applications.

In Illustrator the situation is similar to InDesign. The problem is if you are working with technical applications sometimes you may want to prioritise problem free printing and keeping thin lines pure black, which means a CMYK safe workflow.

In Photoshop Images with unassigned profile should be assigned sRGB, and if you need to edit in extreen Blue/Cyan converting to Adobe RGB (ECI RGB or similar) wil let you access some of the brighter colours that are printable but not within the sRGB Gamut.

Sorry for the rant… but I think the problem is that many who are picky about colour and understand colour managmet don't sync using bridge as @Laubender implied.

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alison.aaha

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I'm also having this same issue. I deleted the "ACEConfigCache2.lst" file and tried opening Bridge but it won't open. It keeps freezing.

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ercee89857529

Inspiring

I came across this aswell the last few days and deleting the folder didn´t help me. I usually spread my set profile via Bridge, but this time it seems it doesn´t help.

What I found out is that every single time I changed the profile back to it´s supposed one in Indesign and simply changed into Photoshop and went back to Indesign the Profile got deactivated again. Making me suspision I looked into Photoshop and found out that my profile was not set correctly in there.

It seems that the Bridge did not spread my settings to Photoshop. I changed the profile in PS manually and - WOW - Indesign does not deactivate the profile anymore.

Maybe this helps