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I have opened a new A4 document and put a rectangle (and only a rectangle - no other elements) of the same size and coloured it P327, then changed spot colour to P313, then changed it to a CMYK swatch, then to a RGB swatch, made the rectangle smaller to fit within the document and then bigger than the document. There is nothing showing in the Acrobat layers column in the back (failed background) or front (successfully shown background) covers of the AI files opened in Acrobat. I also removed the images from the AI file and saved as PDF with the same no show background. The channels in the 2 images used in this 'brochure back cover' have no apparent spot channels - see attachment 6.
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I do not understand the term "enable PDF compatibility" when saving the AI document, where does this show when saving an AI document Check Replace Document Colours, and set the right colours you want.
EXPORTING INDESIGN MAC TO PDF NOT SHOWING BACKGROUND COLOR INSTALL
Once you install the 400MB app, you can change the background colour in Preferences ( cmd + ,) > Accessibility. The only difference is the fact that this background does not cover 100% of the document page. So Preview does not have this feature, but more on that in a moment. Interestingly if you look at my attachment 5 of a saved PDF of the front cover of this brochure visual you will see that the green P327 background is shown. See attachment 4 for Advanced>Print Production>Output Preview to see the P327 spot colour clearly shown, I thought this may be just for the horizontal stripes rather than the background so removed stripes in AI and saved to PDF again and it still showed the spot colour as being there.Ĭhanged the swatch to Book in AI and assume you mean by 'enable PDF compatibility' to save as a PDF which I did with no change to missing background. No info shown in Acrobat layers so assume must be hidden. Select your images and then: - In the properties window, on the bottom, set 'Show Clipping' to 'No'. 2) Make Sure that you Have no Clipping Boundaries. Therefore, try to resize your images to 2500 pixels or under in all cases. Printer_Rick - opened AI saved with a preview with Acrobat (in AI I do not normally save with preview so it shows just text telling me so) and got the same no show background. Keep in mind that images bigger than 2500 pixels may not show up in PDF's. Larry - played around in Advanced>Print Production>Output Preview with no success.