Guide on Color space for indesign

[Optimusdinkus]

Bassically Im kinda frustrated with one file. Every time I export it says the color transparency is not the same as what is being exported or something to that nature. I checked assigned profiles and it matches as well as every dialog box in the pdf window... can anyone point to somehwere that can better describe all the different color profiles?

[garricks]

Which version of InDesign?
Exporting to Acrobat?
CMYK or Spot colors?

[Optimusdinkus]

bah! I allways hate leaving important details
CS 3 indesign
To acrobat 8
and CMYK

[hewligan]

Sounds like one of your linked images is in the wrong colour space.

[garricks]

:D That's what i was getting at. Check two things:
Do a preflight to ensure none of the linked images is RGB.
Check your colors in the swatches panel to make sure they're all process and not spot.

[urstwile]

If you could post a screenshot of the exact error message, that'd be helpful.

[Optimusdinkus]

bleh, then thats the issue. The problem is there are so many of the damn things that in lew of time, it would be best for me to preflight first, then convert all of the linked files to CMYK..... less their is a way in the links panel or something to do it that way, or just to make all the docs assign the color profiles to those images. Any takers? And trust me, I could spend a whole week just converting all of those bastards.

[garricks]

I had a look in the Photoshop Actions panel. There's no RGB > CMYK action listed, but I'm sure you could easily write one.

Urst is right, please post some screen shots.

[hewligan]

Use Indesign's preflight to identify the problem images.

Open one of them in photoshop, and record as an action converting the image to cmyk.

Then, select all of the images that need converting in bridge. In tools -> photoshop, select the image processor. Tell it to apply the action you just created and then save tifs in the appropriate location.

Then go for a coffee. This can take a bit of time, and your computer will be heavily loaded while it does it.

["Technical" Terry]

If you are just blindly going to convert images, just leave them alone. Allow the RIP or whatever else down the line do the conversion.
I highly suggest the Photoshop route however. You NEED to look at the resulting image and make any necessary corrections.

[MikeHun]

In the future use a Photoshop droplet to automate the image conversion process. I use this feature in CS-PS whenever I have a multitude of images and photography that need to be converted into the final color mode. It's an automated feature that saves an incredible amount of processing time.
I usually run one when I'm not using the computer like an appointment or meeting. last catalogue I designed, I had over 3 thousand images to convert from raw digital format!

[steve2112]

If you export a pdf x1a out of indesign it should convert all images into a cmyk pdf to print from. If a pritn for the pdf is an option. That is what i usually do if the job is a quicky and color isn't too much of a problem. I work in a print shop and do a lot of stuff from supplied pdf that are overnight jobs and color conversions are not to much of a hassle. Actually some press RIPS process rgb images very nicely. Mine doesn't


steve