Pure black not working anymore - publisher

[Thomahawk]

I am exporting from publisher 1.7.2 for CMYK offset print.

Document color setting is cmyk
I set a global black 100% K  only and overprint. Text color is set with that
I Export PDF with cmyk separation, x-4 or x-1a, coated fogra 27

Check result in Acrobat, all text is a combination of colors like 71c 71m 65y 77k

I have no clue why all of a sudden this does not work anymore!

I have a document here that  created before the 1.7.2 update and export still works fine with black separation... so I am really at a loss here.

[Dan C]

Hi Thomahawk

I've created the below test document using a Global & Overprint colour set to 100% K -

Then exported using the following settings -

I then opened the resulting PDF (ktest.pdf)  in Acrobat and useds Preflight to check the properties of the object, which is shown below -

As can be seen, the objects fill is set to 0/0/0/1 - 100% K only.

Does my document or export settings differ from yours? Are you using the same colour profile in your document that you set at export?

[Thomahawk]

Thank you Dan. You were right. Despite I always set document colour right at the beginning, and I am sure I checked it again when I first had this problem – the document colour profile was wrong! Now it works.

Thanks again

Thom