Nathan Shirley Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 I'm trying to convert a PDF I've brought into Publisher into CMYK to match my project. If I double click on the PDF within Publisher it seems to opens it as a separate project. There I can make changes to it and they seem to carry over to my main project, which is great (and better than InDesign already). In this editable PDF, I can hit Ctrl-A to highlight all elements, and then give (most of) them a CMYK value, and it seems to take in the main project. So some questions: 1) When I export the full project as a CMYK PDF, any native project text seems to come out as expected, but the "converted" PDF elements don't seem quite the same, close, but a bit off (this might be true in the display within Publisher too). Is there a better way to do this perhaps? 2) When editing a PDF within Publisher I seem to be able to assign CMYK values for all fonts, but not things like lines. Is there a way to do this? 3) I'm always a bit hazy on best practices for mixing different color spaces in a project to be exported to CMYK for printing. What would be the best general recommendations for doing this in Publisher? 4) Sorry, this isn't exactly Publisher specific, but do most programs (not graphic design based) export RGB PDFs? I'm thinking of most general software that can export PDFs but doesn't give you any control over color space. Many thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 Try importing the PDF using File/Open instead of File/Place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Shirley Posted May 7, 2019 Author Share Posted May 7, 2019 That still doesn't seem to let me modify the color of all elements. It does let me choose which color space to import as, but I still can't get all the blacks in any PDFs to match the CMYK blacks in my Publisher project. Strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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