Hi everyone – I just hope what I’ve written below is not too confusing!
I have a problem that I know how to sort out with a workaround, what I want to know is what is causing this problem and how to solve it without a workaround. Please read below and hopefully all will become clear …
I regularly have to import book covers supplied to me as a PDF into InDesign and have to manipulate them. Certain colours I found do not display as the original cover PDF when I’ve finished and created my own PDF in InDesign.
Most of the time this is not noticeable but sometimes the colour changes are drastic. I’ve just worked on a cover that has a bright orange background colour, but when I PDF it, it changes to a red colour.
I’ve tried adjusting the Colour settings and Profiles etc. but that did not really make a difference.
The only way I can make the colour come out OK is to use InDesign CS5.5. If I use CC17, 15, 14, CC, CS6 the colours are wrong.
Here is the clue to the problem – if I make a idml file from CC2017 for example, and call it up in CS5.5 and PDF the colours are still wrong. And here is the big clue! – if I make a brand new CS5.5 and cut and paste the PDF from the idml file into CS5.5 and produce a PDF the colours are still wrong. The only way to get it to work is to import the PDF directly into CS5.5. Then when I create a PDF the colours match the original PDF colour.
Finally, if a open the CS5.5 file up in CC2017, for example, the colours will PDF OK in CC2017. So there is some import setting in all the InDesigns except 5.5 which is altering the colour when you import a PDF (when I say alter the colour – they look OK on the screen, it is only when you produce a PDF that they go wrong).
Where are these settings because I want to naturally use any version of InDesign so that they produce PDFs to the true colours of imported files.
Hope you understood this, and thanks for any help in advance.
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