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Background color not picking up color when exporting to pdf. I just get white color instead of yellow. Anyone had this problem before? Thanks

 

I never had any issue with this until recently. I didn't change anything.

 

When I export to PNG or JPEG background color picks up correctly (i.e. yellow), but when I export to PDF, for some reason it doesn't pick it up. It shows as white instead of Yellow. Anyone else had this problem? I don't think I've had it before.

 

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My Color Format is RGB/8

Color Profile sRGB IEC61966-2.1

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Thank you

 

 

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How are you setting that background color?

-- Walt
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Thanks. I've no idea what might cause that.

Can you supply a sample .afpub document that shows the same behavior?

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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Cannot reproduce on Windows. Colors might be slightly off, otherwise looks ok.

Which exact PDF Export settings do you use?

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Looks like my Adobe pdf Viewer had "Replace Document Colors" checked! Not sure how this even happened. I unchecked it.

I never touched adobe preferences but somehow it was checked. I'm sorry to lead on a wild goose chase but if you had not checked it from your end I would have been perpetually stuck. Luckily it's now solved.

I started looking and fixed it according to this youtube video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N7PgpkH8lM basically the screenshot below. I remove the check mark and it worked

Thank you @NotMyFault and @walt.farrell

This is really my bad for wasting your time like that :/ I really tried to find solution before posting here. I was investigating for whole week

 

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56 minutes ago, aymanzone said:

This is really my bad for wasting your time like that

No worries. Happy everything got sorted out quickly. 

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