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#1 2005-03-29 11:37 am
- jimbobmitch
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Indesign CS problem
I'm having a problem I have created and sent the pdf's to be printed and the Black is showing up in all four colors of the cmyk.
I have no idea how to specify it to be just black in all of my images. Has anyoe else run into this problem? Please help if you can.
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#2 2005-03-29 6:28 pm
Re: Indesign CS problem
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#3 2005-03-29 6:41 pm
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Re: Indesign CS problem
First off, a little more information is called for. What color space is your document in, that is to say, is your document all Greyscale, or are a few pages CMYK? Is your text still printing as black?
Generally speaking, you should make sure that any image that should print as greyscale is specified as greyscale in photoshop before placing into InDesign.
If you have a CMYK/Greyscale project, (i.e, a newspaper with only the outer pages in 4 color), set any images that are to print greyscale to greyscale in photochop (under image>mode), and then In the PDF export menu of InDesign, under advanced, set "color" to "leave unchanged." If your problem is what I think it is, this should do the trick.
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#4 2005-03-30 1:31 am
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Re: Indesign CS problem
i'm having an issue with exporting to PDF in InDesign CS, too. The colors all darken by about 15% when I export; doesn't seem to matter what export profile I choose. I have selected "Leave Unchanged" in the Advanced menu. Any suggestions?
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#5 2005-03-30 9:08 am
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Re: Indesign CS problem
Thanks for the re-post I am not have a problem with the grayscale images and the text in the book is jst black. However 80% of my images are noit seperating black i am getting black ink along with registration. So it is going to end up being printed a mess. I have figured out a manual way to erase the CMY colrs from the parts of the images that should just black but this will be an agonizing process. I think its some kind of setting that i am over looking (though I feel Ive been throgh evry setting imaginable) The most confusing part is that some of these images woked perfeectly just last year in a publication that we did last year in Pagemaker. I'm going to rip my hair out!
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#6 2005-03-30 9:18 am
Re: Indesign CS problem
are your placed images RGB? is text color set as registration when it should be set to black?
when you export the PDF what preset are you using? If using the "print" i have found an issue where it does not work correctly regarding color space. If you choose "print" from the pull down you must click to the "advanced" tab on the side for it to leave the colors as they are set in your document. You will know this because it will not give you the two warnings after clicking the export button. Try it and see for yourself. (p.s. this is in ID CS)
as well, if your images are RGB and you use the "press" setting they will be converted to CMYK and this may be your issue with the black rendering improperly.
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#7 2005-03-30 9:32 am
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Re: Indesign CS problem
Were some of the images in process color? Is converting them to Graysacle TIFs or EPS possible? You can use Photoshop actions to automate the conversion.
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#8 2005-03-30 9:38 am
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Re: Indesign CS problem
The images were in process colors. What photoshop actions do you mean? I feel like it is a setting in indesign. If I place these same images i pagemaker7 it works fine. Unfortunately I dont have time to redo the entire 500 page book in pagemaker.
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#9 2005-03-30 9:47 am
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Re: Indesign CS problem
Do you know how to seperate the black from reg. in photoshop? I have many eps files that are showing black and reg in the channel pallette when they shouldnt. Is there an easy way to tell photoshop t seperate theses colors?
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#10 2005-03-30 9:51 am
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Re: Indesign CS problem
If the images were in process color in InDesign, you need to use photoshop to change them to greyscale TIFFs. Open in photoshop, go to image>mode>greyscale, then save as. Because of the simplicity of this, you can create (or download I suppose) a photoshop action that will do this for a large number of files by just dragging them onto the action. Then, all you would have to do is relink your images and you would be done.
If the images were only in process colors in your PDFs, I give up. Does your printer accept packaged Indesign files? 
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#11 2005-03-31 1:00 pm
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Re: Indesign CS problem
Good News! I figured it out. I had to set the custom Cmyk in the color settings to GCR with black at 100%. I also had to take the poorly convertes Cmyk images and convert them back to RGB. After that I went in and set the GCR that was in the color settngs under custom CMYK. Thank god for the actions in photoshop it would have been very painful to convert close to 1000 images.
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