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Overprint Preview triggered by Illustrator vector with reduced opacity setting

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    • April 2, 2018 at 4:30 am #102771
      Kim Hughes
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      I have an image on a page (rgb from photoshop) linked to a page – when I placed an illustrator graphic on that page which had an object with reduced opacity setting it caused the page to change to the Overview Print display ie less vibrant colours, etc – same as it looks on a PDF. I determined this when I set the opacity back to 100% and the page displayed its rgb colours again. Any element placed with opacity less that 100% caused this to happen?

      With limited understanding of cmyk – rgb colour theory I am wondering if there is any way around this effect so I can add a partially transparent ai graphic – at least on the screen if not on a PDF or printed?

      Is there some way (maybe via colour settings) that rbg colours can be accurately converted to cmyk so as not to lose vibrancy, etc. – from what I can gather this cannot be avoided?

    • April 3, 2018 at 11:01 am #102810
      Colleen Shannon
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      If your final output is CMYK, you should think and work in CMYK mode (use CMYK color sliders). RGB has a wider gamut than CMYK, so a precise conversion is not possible.

      Not sure what’s happening with your transparent .ai image, but make sure you don’t have any Spot Colors in both your .ai and .indd file.

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