rachaelamber Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Hi, I seem to be having trouble exporting my publisher file as a PDF properly for my printer. I followed all specs and instructions, the profile is set to CMYK, and all pages were proofed to make sure all black text is 1c black – 0C/0Y/0M/100K. Yet when I export the files and send to my printer for pre-press proofing, they keep saying it's 4c and not the same as my working file... I'm not sure how to check the PDF for whether it's 4c or 1c black. But apparently something is going wrong in the export settings. Attached are the details of exporting. Additionally you can see the color bar is at 1c black when I'm highlighting black text within the file. Are there other settings I should be looking out for that could be messing with the export? Is this an "overprint black" issue, which I already unchecked I believe? How can I make sure this is exported with 1c black text for my printer to proceed with the process? Is there some way to only export text as "K" and ignore the other colors even if they're set to 0? I'm not sure where else to go but this is delaying the print process as they won't move ahead until I have it exported properly. Additionally, they want to try the file themselves but they work in inDesign so I don't believe I can export it for them to work with unless they have affinity? or is there a way to export for others to edit? And for the future, were there initial settings or steps I missed or preferences I need to adjust to make this the default? (all text seems to be created at a default of the 3rd screenshot but perhaps that's because I drag the color picker instead of specify.) Thank you so much for any help you can provide in advance! -R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 When you select File > Document Setup > Color, do you have CMYK/8 as the color mode and U.S. Sheetfed Uncoated v2 as the color profile? If not, or if you have the document color mode in RGB, and your workspace CMYK profile (determined by Edit > Preferences > Color) is other than U.S. Sheetfed Uncoated v2, then export time color profile definition will perform color conversion, which causes e.g. change of K100 values to four-color black. To correct the problem, choose File > Document Setup > Color and use the Assign mode to switch to correct CMYK target profile (if the mode is "Convert", then you will experience similar conversion of color values as when changing the color profile at export time, so e.g. K100 values will be converted to four-color black; this is by design). In lack of anything better, you can open your PDF exports in Publisher and check that color values are as expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachaelamber Posted June 6, 2022 Author Share Posted June 6, 2022 On 6/4/2022 at 12:27 PM, lacerto said: When you select File > Document Setup > Color, do you have CMYK/8 as the color mode and U.S. Sheetfed Uncoated v2 as the color profile? If not, or if you have the document color mode in RGB, and your workspace CMYK profile (determined by Edit > Preferences > Color) is other than U.S. Sheetfed Uncoated v2, then export time color profile definition will perform color conversion, which causes e.g. change of K100 values to four-color black. To correct the problem, choose File > Document Setup > Color and use the Assign mode to switch to correct CMYK target profile (if the mode is "Convert", then you will experience similar conversion of color values as when changing the color profile at export time, so e.g. K100 values will be converted to four-color black; this is by design). In lack of anything better, you can open your PDF exports in Publisher and check that color values are as expected. Thank you so much @lacerto, I appreciate your support and this seems to have done the trick. Being able to check the PDF after exporting was helpful to confirm this. Hopefully the printer agrees all is fixed now. Thanks much, be well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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