HELP! InDesign document swatches suddenly changed to RGB!

[Shlomit Heymann]

I have no idea how it happen but I suddenly noticed that the CMYK swatches on my document has changed to RGB! I don't know why and/or what to do

PLEASE HELP ME

Shlomit

[Laubender]

Hi Shlomit,

you changed the intent of your document from Print to something else, Web or Mobile.

Go to Document Setup and change it back to Print.

From my German InDesign, Document Setup with Print Intent ( Zielmedium: Druck )

Document Setup with Web Intent ( Zielmedium: Web )

Regards,
Uwe

[Shlomit Heymann]

Dear Laubender,

Thank you so much, but I can promise you, I did not do such thing. I never ever work for web.

You are right though that it has change, but when I select Print, it changes the layout. why?

I'm under pressure as it must go to print now, I don't have time to redo all the job

shlomit

[Laubender]

Hi Shlomit,

so show us your current Document Setup where you are seeing the RGB swatches.

Note height and width of the pages setup there.

If you change to Print Intent do the same values and meassurement system for width and height.

Hope, you did not change page sizes with the Page Tool or that there are any Alternate Layouts.

That would complicate the matter a bit.

Regards,
Uwe

[Laubender]

Ah. Here a selective change of property intent that can be done by scripting (ExtendScript/JavaScript):

app.documents[0].documentPreferences.intent = DocumentIntentOptions.PRINT_INTENT;

That would not change page size.

Regards,
Uwe

[Shlomit Heymann · Accepted solution]

The current is selected with red frame, on top is when I change, so I entered to correct measurments and it looks fine.

Thank you,

I will now have to go through the doc to make sure it didn't change.

I still don't understand how it happen, but I'll make sure to pay attention so if it's a bug I will be able to report it.

shlomit

[Shlomit Heymann]

By the way, look at the swatches, all changed to CMYK, but the "RGB" Cyan name didn't changed...

The rest did.

Look how it looked before:

[Laubender]

Hi Shlomit,

I have no answer to this. It should be not the norm.

You could try to edit your left over "RGB Cyan" swatch.

Regards,
Uwe

[vinny38]

You probably accidentally changed the document intent from Print to Web.

You can revert that in the document setup panel, but...

BUT BE CAREFUL:

Changing the intent can change the document height & width !

Regardless of your default swatch color mode, did you not notice that your document layout is all messy? If not, lucky you!

[Shlomit Heymann]

No, something is wrong.

A few days ago, I opened the cover.

I noticed immediately that the swatches changed.

I closed the document and reopen it and it was fine.

So if it happen upon opening than something is terribly wrong.

This is a disaster!

[vinny38]

No panic, you can just change the intent to print and reassign the correct height and width values before hitting OK.

But, can you confirm that your layout is actually the way it is supposed to be?

Can you provide a screenshot of your Document setup panel?

Now, the way you describe how the problem occurred is very strange.

Looks like some sort of corruption.

I have an alternative solution, but it's a bit more complicated, so please first share your document setup panel first ^^