InDesign Orange Boxes???

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March 22, 2019
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Hello, I have been using inDesign but today I opened the file and all of my pages are suddenly filled with orange boxes, the background of the page also has a slight tint of orange.

I created a new page thinking there was an error but as soon as I paste something into the page there's more orange boxes!

When I export the file as a pdf and view it, the orange boxes DO disappear but it's quite annoying having to edit my pages with this occurring.

Could someone please guide me into how to fix this? Examples uploaded as picture.

Thanks!

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Correct answer Laubender

Reset preferences still the same problem

Hi Michael,

your color mangement is turned off.

That's the main cause, I think.

Regards,
Uwe

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michaelnewAuthor

Participating Frequently

I have checked all my colour settings in photoshop and in indesign and everything seems to be perfectly white.

When I place the picture into inDesign it changes to orange. Still doing it, I've tried changing the settings to RGB in photoshop too and still the same problem.

When I export the indesign document the orange boxes show and it's really affecting my university work... Any other suggestions? In quite a panic at the moment

manal shanableh

Legend

Please send one image that we can check, also you can send an indesign file with 1 image linked.

You can send via wetransfer.com

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michaelnewAuthor

Participating Frequently

Hi Michael,

your color mangement is turned off.

That's the main cause, I think.

Regards,
Uwe

Laubender, That worked! My work shows no more orange boxes. Hopefully it is the same when I attempt to print it.

Thank you all for your help, much appreciated!

I turned the setting to Off and it didn't show the orange boxes anymore.

manal shanableh

Legend

Check the display performance, View> Display Performance> High Quality.

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

Open your swatch Panel and double-click on the swatch called "Paper". When the Swatch Options dialog then opens make sure that the CMY&K values for it are all zero. InDesign does not have a color called white. Instead it uses this paper swatch to simulate what the paper that the job is printed on will look like. The default for it should be zero for all four process colors (simulating white) but it sounds like yours may have been altered.