Interactive PDF RGB Colors Dulling

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January 7, 2022
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I have a problem that just started happining. I have several documents with Transparency Blend Space > RGB. When I export them as an interactive PDF, the color dulls (is it converting to CMYK?). I don't have this problem when exporting as a regular, High Quality Print PDF. And I didn't have this problem prior. I've gone back to old documents that have vibrant interactive PDF's and tried resaving those, and I get the same result. My INDD and Acrobat Pro are both current.

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Correct answer rob day

There was a bug in the first version of CC2021 (16.0), that set Color Settings to Emulate Adobe InDesign 2.0 CMS Off. The CMS Off setting strips the document’s color profiles and disables color managed conversions. You should be able to use any Color Settings other than CMS Off and get the correct conversion on an interactive PDF export.

You might want to check documents you have created since upgrading to CC2021 and make sure they have profile assignments.

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VerelleAuthor

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Looks like I solved this by changing the color setting to North America General Purpose 2.

rob day

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There was a bug in the first version of CC2021 (16.0), that set Color Settings to Emulate Adobe InDesign 2.0 CMS Off. The CMS Off setting strips the document’s color profiles and disables color managed conversions. You should be able to use any Color Settings other than CMS Off and get the correct conversion on an interactive PDF export.

You might want to check documents you have created since upgrading to CC2021 and make sure they have profile assignments.

rob day

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Hi @Verelle the change doesn’t look like an RGB to CMYK difference because the starting color looks like it is in gamut, and normally you wouldn’t see a color change on a CMYK to sRGB conversion—with interactive PDFs all color gets converted to sRGB. Does it happen if your document’s assigned RGB profile is sRGB (Edit>Assign Profiles)?

Also, check Color Setting and make sure Color Management hasn’t been turned off.

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VerelleAuthor

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@rob day

1) This is the color I've been using. I've been using this same orange in documents for years and the color has always been vivid, as previewed in INDD. I even went back and tested saving out old documents that had vivid interactive PDF's and the new version saves dull (old version looks great).