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Hi. I need something printed. I have done all the artwork in illsutrator, and when I save the file as a pdf the colours go really dull. So the colours in illustrator are bright. But when I open the pdf in adobe reader the colours go dull. Does anyone know why this may be happening?
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c258/Zeb_raa/colour.jpg.example of colour difference
twogun
06-18-2006, 11:50 AM
no idea zeb but had the same problem myself the other day, looking forward to hearing why!
i'm running CS by the way, what about you?
Are you by chance working in RGB in illustrator and saving the PDF as CMYK?
thelob
06-18-2006, 07:52 PM
It could also be a spot colour you selected within illustrator that is out of gamma when saved as a cmyk pdf (i.e cyan, mag, yellow and black cannot reproduce the colour)
PrintDriver
06-19-2006, 01:38 AM
A spot color should save as a spot color in pdf out of gamut or not. The screen view in Reader is usually at fault. Most times they print ok. Most times...
Check your color space like Kool suggested. In Illy the default is CMYK but some people change it for some reason or other.
yeah I am running cs. I'm working in cmyk.
Yeah i was originally thinking that it could've been readers screen view. But when I printed it it came out dull. But then when I made a high res jpeg of the same thing and printed it, the colours came out almost exactly like the original illustrator work file.
So maybe I'll just do it like that for the moment. Its only for an assignment. Due tomorow though, so don't really have much more time to figure out whats wrong.
Thanks for help though guys.
Broacher
06-19-2006, 04:00 PM
I had this problem when we first started working with ID and the resulting PDFs. I traced it to some switch in, of all places, the Advanced Print Setup in Acrobat. I think it was simpy the Printer Profile selection, which I reset to 'Same As Source".
I've seen the same thing and it has usually been because the color profile in the original was different than that in Acrobat. There are color management abilities in Acrobat Pro, make sure they match the same profile used in your design software.
Broacher
06-19-2006, 07:35 PM
>>make sure they match the same profile used in your design software<<
That's where resetting the switch to "Same as Source" works (even when there ISN'T any embedded profiles). The print setup is not an obvious place to look for this, but what you set there gets preserved even between opening different documents, and closing/re-opening Acrobat itself.