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• • November 6, 2011 at 1:22 pm #61011
    jfettig

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    Hello,

    I placed a filled rectangle on it's own layer to create a background color for a single page, simple doc. I've placed a few text items on a layer above this and if I change the opacity of any of the text items, the background opacity changes also. This happens if I use the opacity changer in the menu bar or the Effects panel, and regardless of which aspect of the text I change. I haven't adjusted any other settings (e.g., blending mode) and neither box in the effects panel is checked. I haven't ever had this happen before and can't think what I'm missing or why this is happening.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.

  • November 7, 2011 at 9:04 am #61013
    Lala Lala

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    I don't know either but I got a similar bug(?) recently… changing opacity of one item in a complex document caused the background color to change on screen. The thing is, it was a subtle shift (sort of like switching between CMYK and RGB in other adobe products). The basic color was correct, it just seemed to get muted. And the color panel said its color values were the same. I suspect it's just a visual bug and the actual printed color is identical either way… unless the shift you're seeing is more dramatic than what I'm describing?

  • November 8, 2011 at 6:26 am #61024
    jfettig

    Member

    It is similar to switching from RGB to CMYK, but when I print I get the color that looks as though it has reduced opacity. I tried creating the different objects in a separate doc, reducing the opacity, then brining them in, and that worked for most. But you've given me some ideas to try. Thanks.

  • November 17, 2011 at 3:10 pm #61086
    Mike Rankin

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    CreeoDo-

    The shift you're seeing is most likely what happens when you have RGB colors on the spread and you're using CMYK Transparency Blend Space. You can check in in the Edit menu. When you introduce transparency onto a spread, everything on the spread gets converted on the fly to the blend space so that colors can be blended. It's just a side effect of InDesign allowing you to mix CMYK and RGB colors on the same spread: they have to be converted to a common color space to blend. So your intuition was exactly right. And it's not a bug, it's a feature :)

    Jennifer-

    Not sure if this is what's happening in your case.

  • November 19, 2011 at 7:35 am #61105
    jfettig

    Member

    Thanks Mike. I've tried it with Print and Web settings, making sure in each case that I've created only CMYK or RGB colors respectively, but I have the same result either way. Transparency Blend space for web docs is RGB, so I think I must be missing something else.

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