Re: Indesign dropping profiles on placing?
Re: Indesign dropping profiles on placing?
- Subject: Re: Indesign dropping profiles on placing?
- From: Tom Lianza <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:19:01 -0500
- Thread-topic: Indesign dropping profiles on placing?
Hi Todd,
Now that's a feature we can surely live without. I don't know how we handle
that within the ICC. Any advice from the crowd would be welcome (I
think...)
Regards
Tom Lianza
Chairman ICC
On 1/24/11 2:44 PM, "Todd Shirley" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Klaus Karcher wrote:
>
>> Todd Shirley wrote:
>>> I'll chime in to this discussion because we encounter this "broken"
>>> profile problem all the time in InDesign. We always embed profiles
>>> into our images (in Photoshop) and when we bring them in to InDesign
>>> I'd say about half the time InDesign lists them as "document CMYK" in
>>> the links palette.
>>
>> ... in this case it's not a bug, it's a feature ;-)
>>
>> You decided to "keep CMYK numbers" in InDesign's Color Settings -- and
>> actually this is a synonym for "ignore CMYK profiles".
>>
>> With this setting, InDesign treats every CMYK image as if it were already in
>> the CMYK working space to avoid CMYK->CMYK transformations which would bang
>> up pure blacks and primaries. The drawbacks are possible color shifts,
>> inconsistent separations and the risk to exceed the intended total ink limit.
>>
>> Klaus
>
> Hi Klaus
>
> Indeed, I do want InDesign to ignore CMYK profiles and I don't want
> conversions, and it performs perfectly on this front. I just find it curious
> that sometimes it tells me what the embedded profile is and sometimes it says
> "document CMYK". I guess "Emulate Adobe InDesign 2.0 CMS Off" means:
> inconsistently display embedded profile information in the links palette.
>
> -Todd Shirley _______________________________________________
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