Layouts not exporting with correct colours

Question

Today I am no longer able to export my layouts with the colours that I have set up in the maps. At this point, I have exported over 100 layouts from this project (or some version of it as I save a new one every week) and this problem creeped up without me having changed anything to my knowledge.

This is what the layout looks like in layout view:

And this is what it looks like exported to pdf:

My export to pdf settings are always the same:

Any idea why this is happening?

Thank you very much!

D_McRitchie · Answer

Might be worth exploring the settings in your PDF viewer. Based on what Laura has highlighted, it could be a setting elsewhere that causes colours to appear differently on .pdf files, but not on others such as .png.

Laura · Answer

That’s what I assumed would happen. Sometimes my annotations don’t display properly when exporting directly to PDF, so I export as a PNG instead. If I need a PDF, I convert the PNG to a PDF afterward. I can’t say exactly why things don’t always work correctly in PDF, but I do know that changing the format usually fixes the issue.

OverstoryGIS · Answer

no, i just tested .tif and .jpeg and both export correctly without issue.