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I'm still having problems with colour profiles.

I am working on a drawing that has a custom colour profile attributed to it.

 

I now want to edit this drawing and find that the colour picker does not work with this profile. This is odd because it must have worked when I did the drawing in the first place!

 

If I select an object its correct colour shows in larger cirlce to the left of the eyedropper. If I then use the eyedropper to select that colour, then select another shape and click on the smaller circle to the right of the eyedropper, although it looks like the correct colour, the shape's colour is darker.

 

If I go to Document setup, and replace the colour profile to the default profile all the colours in the drawing change.

 

My question is why can't Designer stick to whatever colour profile is chosen? What purpose is there in allowing different profiles if they don't work? Is this a bug?

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That's odd, but even if AD ignores the profile - have you tried to change the profile and use the "assign" instead of the "convert" button directly beneath the profiles? Makes a big difference :)

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Hi Markus,

I didn't realise what Assign and Convert were for! However When I choose Assign and OK it doesn't make any difference and the colour problem is still there. I then checked this setting again and discovered that it had reverted back to Convert. I checked it 3 times and it never stays on Assign.

If voting made any difference it wouldn't be allowed!

Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.

To be ignorant of world happenings is forgivable - to be willingly ignorant is unforgivable.

Truth does not need to be protected only lies do.

Mac OS Monterey 12.6.4

AD version 2.4.2

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The difference is: Convert will change definitly the values of the colors based on the selected profile. Assign just assigns the profile to the document but doesn't change the values. The button always jumps back to Convert, so you can't see if you have converted or assigned last time used :(. But for me it works good enough. If I use the basic CMYK profile it wouldn't be embedded into the file, if I use any other profile it will be embedded (see filesize). Assign only makes sense if you still have the correct colours used/selected, if they got allready false converted there is noch way back as to revert to a older version of the document :(

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