Exporting to PDF deletes color and elements, help!!!

[nastasyat41473428]

Attached pics from Acrobat and InDesign and export settings.

First shot is how it looks in ID, second is how it looks in Acrobat Pro, third is the settings used.

Color and the worm's eyes are deleted!

I need this to work for school! Help me PLEASE!  Thank you!

[vinny38 · Accepted solution]

Hi

Did you modify [Paper] swatch in order to get your yellowish background?

If my guess is right, this is why your background color "disappear":

From : Create documents in InDesign

Note:

You can change the on‑screen color of your paper. With no text or objects selected, double-click the Paper color in the Swatches panel (choose Window > Swatches). The Paper color appears on‑screen only and does not affect output; it is intended only to simulate designing for nonwhite paper.

So, go back to white values for [paper] and create a colored frame with same size than your page (or bigger if you use bleed) in your Master page.

Place it on a specific layer (i.e. called "background"). Finally, place this layer under all other layers.

Hope that helps

Vinny

[nastasyat41473428]

Thank you, it's a file from Classroom in A Book and they did use the paper color. I still don't understand why my

worm's eyes are missing though. Those I put on myself.

[rob day]

I need this to work for school! Help me PLEASE!  Thank you!

The [Paper] swatch is literally the color of the intended paper stock and will always separate as 0% ink even if you have given it a color. You can also edit the paper color in AcrobatPro by checking Set Background Color and clicking the color patch in Output Preview:

[cinziamarotta]

If you didn't change the paper swatch, then check the Acrobat preferences: Accessibility > Replace Document Colors hasn't be activated