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The NeVille Group
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February 26, 2019
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How to overcome ICC profile warning & export an ID file to PDF

  • February 26, 2019
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Please help.  I've tried cleaning up doc, no errors present; I've tried saving a copy; i've tried saving, closing reopening indesign and exporting, still fails.  What is going on.  How can i even find what profiles are the issue?

 

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Correct answer katherinef9735109

What finally worked for me was clicking Covert to Destination for colors under Output when Exporting, and then I got a pop up message the next time I tried to export telling me which page the offending image was on. It ended up being a background image that I'd placed as a pdf. Brought it back in as a jpeg and had no issues after that. 

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Participant
February 18, 2021

Hey I struggled with this for a bit. Went through the advice other people gave and still had issues. Some of my ICC desginations were just blank in my links panel so I couldn't figure out if those were tripping me up. Simplest solution for me was to go to export and when you get the dialog export box go to Output on the left hand side, you'll see an option for Color Conversion: click on the drop down box and select Convert to Destination. Hope this helps. 

 

Participant
April 2, 2021

THANK YOU!

Participant
November 19, 2020

Narrowing down to step by step helped to solved the problem - thank you @rob day 

JamisonArgent
Participating Frequently
October 1, 2020

I managed to fix this issue. To do it I located the problem page by exporting the first half, then the second half and kept splitting the page range until I found the offending page. I then deleted 1 image and exported the page again, and repeated this for each image, until I was able to export without error, meaning that last image I deleted was the problem. I'm not sure what caused the issue, many of my other images were in RGB, but this one was different. Anyhow, in photoshop I changed the image to a CMYK profile, and placed this back into the document. I then exported the whole document and had no more errors.

bgrosz
Inspiring
March 17, 2023

This helped me too.  Thanks so much for the detailed explanation and instructions on how to remedy the situation.

Participant
July 22, 2019

Just to go a little further on this problem and for anyone else who's experiencing it and finds this thread, the ICC Profile warning usually occurs when you have an RGB image placed in a CMYK document. Fortunately, in InDesign, you can choose to view an ICC Profile column in the Links Panel. Go to the Links panel, in the pull down menu, scroll down and select Panel Options... In the Panel Options pop up window, select ICC Profile under Show Column. In the same Panel Options window, you can also select Color Space. This will tell you if an image is CMYK or RGB without having to look at each image's Link Info. Hope this helps future troubleshooters.

Celine.Wright
Participant
November 21, 2020

I have the same problem-Looking at the colour column in the Links pannel it shows all my images seem to be RGB! So should I then make the document an RGb document which will then all convert to CMYK when exporting as Print Quality? 

tanyaa2885541
Participant
November 23, 2020

I just had this issue, and all of my images were RBG as well. When I looked at the ICC, one of them had a weird description - most said Document RGB, but one had sRGB and some other words. So, I export all of the pages before that page and they exported fine. I exported all of the pages after that page and they exported fine. Then I exported that 1 page and it gave me the error. I looked at that page and replace the image that I had on that page, and everything exported fine after that. So the solution above will still solve your problem by helping you find the page with the image causing the error.

rob day
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 26, 2019

Version 4 ICC profiles will generate the warning on export. It doesn‘t have an affect on color conversions so you can usually safely ignore the warning.

The NeVille Group
Participant
February 26, 2019

Thank you! Do you have any idea how to override failure and still export pdf? Doc will not export as it is now.

rob day
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 26, 2019

Usually that means there is a placed object causing the error. Try exporting the first half, then the second half and keep splitting the page range until you find the offending page.