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    • June 7, 2018 at 12:08 pm #104246
      Susan Foley
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      I have a color swatch on my documents that I call date. By changing the options of “date”, I can in a quick click change the color of a folio depending on the background of the image that is behind the page number. ie The image on a page is dark, by just changing the cmyk value of my “date” color I can change the color of the text from black to white. Recently something has happened that my Swatch Options say color mode of CMYK but where it used to give me CMYK values, it now has PANTONE with an area to put a Pantone value and blank space to insert a % value. I can not find anything that will allow me to change this back to a straight C – value, M – value, Y – value and K – value. My work around has been to create a new “dates” change the color of the swatch and delete the “date” swatch replacing with the “dates” swatch. Anybody have any ideas how to fix this. I am operating Indesign CS 5.5.

    • June 8, 2018 at 1:35 pm #104260
      Colleen Shannon
      Member

      Susan,

      Do you have placed artwork (.ai, .eps) that has those Pantone colors? That might explain why you can’t change them to CMYK in InDesign, you need to fix them in Illustrator. Also, if you don’t need spot colors, convert all of them to process in InDesign and Illustrator.

    • June 8, 2018 at 2:33 pm #104262
      Susan Foley
      Participant

      No I don’t. We are very careful to only use CMYK colors. It helps us control the colors that are returned by our printer. This document is totally text. There are no images in the file.

      Susan Foley
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      307-634-8895
      arts@wyotraders.com

    • June 13, 2018 at 12:32 pm #104294
      pnamajck
      Member

      since you’ve been using indd-cs5.5 all along … the problem is not the software. do you retain copies of your past files used … say, on disk or other removable media? then you’d be able to go back to a file which allowed you the conversion … compare with your latest file … see where the difference lies.

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