Overprint is greyed out for text?

[Das Boomer]

Greetings,

I've created, with my limited artistic skills, well-meaning Christmas cards that utilize specialty toners (white, silver and gold) for the Xerox Iridesse Press. You can download the card here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y5vm2qtne242319/Christmas%20Cards.zip?dl=0

I need to understand why when I select multiple text elements I cannot also select overprint fill.

Any help, artistic as well, is welcomed!

Cheeers from Vancouver 🙂

PS: This is in the latest Indesign on Catalina.

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi BetterColour,

did you select text frames or did you select text with the text tool?

If you selected text frames the overprint would work on a fill color you applied to the frame ( not to the text it contains ).

If your text frames have no fill color applied the overprint for fill is grayed out.

So the solution would be:

Select text to access overprint for the fill color of the text.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Das Boomer]

thank you Uwe! That did the trick 🙂