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1. Re: Eyedropper Values Based on Low-Res Proxy (RGB)
mckayk_777-PN6kWE Dec 15, 2010 3:12 PM (in response to bpylant)Probably has something to do with the preview that indesign offers on screen, Indesign only does a low res preview of PDF placed items, not like something you have drawn yourself on the page. Where as with Images (JPG PSD and so on) you can use the eyedropper fine
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2. Re: Eyedropper Values Based on Low-Res Proxy (RGB)
bpylant Dec 16, 2010 11:19 AM (in response to mckayk_777-PN6kWE)That's exactly why I think it's weird... why would InDesign bother with the proxy at all, when it clearly knows the values in the file?
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3. Re: Eyedropper Values Based on Low-Res Proxy (RGB)
Daniel Flavin Dec 16, 2010 2:17 PM (in response to bpylant)I ignore the warning and use it...
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4. Re: Eyedropper Values Based on Low-Res Proxy (RGB)
bpylant Dec 17, 2010 6:23 AM (in response to Daniel Flavin)I can't do that, as I need to match the exact CMYK values in the PDF. Easy enough to get (either through the Separations
Panel, or in Acrobat) but annoying.
I'll file a bug report / feature request when I get a chance...
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5. Re: Eyedropper Values Based on Low-Res Proxy (RGB)
mckayk_777-PN6kWE Dec 17, 2010 3:32 PM (in response to bpylant)If you really need to know the colour, open the pdf in illustrator and pull the
pdf apart till you can get to the part that has that colour.
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6. Re: Eyedropper Values Based on Low-Res Proxy (RGB)
P Spier Dec 17, 2010 3:42 PM (in response to bpylant)What makes you so sure the separations preview is showing you the "correct CMYK values"? What the seps preview is showing is what ID will output based on the color in the PDF, your color management settings, and your working profiles. For all you know the color in the PDF might actually be RGB.
Granted, ID must know what the "real values" are in order to calculate the seps, but that doesn't mean the numbers you see there are the sam as the ones in the PDF.
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7. Re: Eyedropper Values Based on Low-Res Proxy (RGB)
bpylant Dec 21, 2010 6:31 AM (in response to P Spier)Understood... in this case I know it would be the same values, though, since we don't output from InDesign with any color management or profile conversions. (We print everything here, so we're already working in the correct colorspace, or with customer-suppied CMYK values that must not be altered at output.)
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8. Re: Eyedropper Values Based on Low-Res Proxy (RGB)
ceiben Feb 10, 2011 8:44 PM (in response to bpylant)I just had the same problem...I went to Edit > Colour Settings and changed the InDeisgn doccument to CMYK by selecting Convert to Working Space. This could maybe be your problem? good luck




