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RebeccaBa3
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November 17, 2022

Workfront proofing Color PDFs showing colors differently

  • November 17, 2022
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I have a user/designer creating files with many transparent gradients. They are complaining that the color in Workfront Proofing is not the same as the proof in Acrobat. I don't believe there are admin settings in Workfront proofing to change color settings. Does anyone have any suggestions? I recommended exporting at PDFX-4 pdf because they work better for files with lots of transparency, but the source files are RGB. 

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    RandyRoberts
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    RandyRobertsCommunity Advisor
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    November 17, 2022

    Are these InDesign files?

    I've had the same issue twice now. They fixed it once in March 2021 (Case #00300854)and then it broke again in June 2021 so they fixed it again (Case #00258547). You should open a ticket and cite these 2 cases.

    Here is an excerpt of one of the support convos:

    "I went into Illustrator and created a PDF using the sRGB settings and it looked fine, so I exported the PDF RGB settings from Illustrator to a PDF preset. I went to InDesign and used the preset that worked in Illustrator to export a PDF in InDesign. I created a proof from that and the colors are washed out like a CMYK view.

    It seems as if PDF exports from all other apps work fine, but any PDF from InDesign is washed out no matter what settings are used. I checked the InDesign PDF in Acrobat and there is no CMYK at all, everything is RGB.

    If I save it out as an EPS from InDesign and then run it through distiller with RGB preset, it still looks bad."

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    RebeccaBa3Author
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    November 17, 2022

    Yes, these are InDesign files. I will add a support ticket and reference your case numbers. Thank you.

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    andye3477008
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    November 19, 2022

    I have a 22MB zip file that contains all my testing files from InDesign in both CMY and RGB to illustrate the problem, and test the solution. If you need them I can get them to you.


    We have the same issue which has been reported, for us not all pdfs are affected, it's looks like it's to do with proof generation, this creates tiled jpg images for it renders quicker.

     

    For testing we uploaded a jpg instead of a pdf and no colour differences were found, we can do this for one of our departments but the others rely on pdfs.

     

    We were told that it is being worked on but that was over a year ago no.

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