Discrepancies in InDesign color output
Discrepancies in InDesign color output
- Subject: Discrepancies in InDesign color output
- From: "Chris McFarling" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:43:18 -0500
InDesign CS and CS2 both use Apple RGB and Photoshop 5 Default CMYK as the
RGB and CMYK working document profiles when color management is turned off,
according to the documentation.
As such, if color management is on and the documemt is explicitly assigned
Apple RGB and Photoshop 5 Default CMYK as the document profiles, it would
stand to reason that any output should be the same as if color management
were off.
I'm getting different results however when trying both scenarios. My test
document contains an untagged RGB image. I'm exporting the page as an EPS
and selecting CMYK as the Color option in the export dialog box. I'm then
processing the EPS through Distiller and tagging (not converting) all CMYK
data with a custom profile of ours. When viewing the resulting PDFs side by
side in Acrobat, the one generated from the EPS with CMS OFF is more
saturated than the one generated from the EPS with CMS ON. There is a
definite noticable difference in color between the two. I'm curious as to
why there is this discrepancy.
With CMS ON in InDesign, I have the rendering intent set to Relative
Colormetric and BPC enabled. Does anyone know what rendering intent InDesign
uses when converting colors with CMS OFF and whether or not it uses BPC?
Chris McFarling
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