topic Re: Colorissue while Exporting a PDF-File in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Colorissue while Exporting a PDF-File

KevinBullenkamp — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:28:02 GMT

Hello everyone,

anyone else got the issue while exporting a CMYK colored map/layout into a PDF-File, that the black value (0,0,0,100) is not black anymore, when opening the file via Adobe illustrator? Here the black is more brownish (about 70,70,70,70) as you can see in the picture. I don't see any possibilities in fixing it by changing the exportsettings in ArcGIS Pro. Maybe someone got the same problem before and solved it.

Thanks for your help!

Best regards

Kevin

Re: Colorissue while Exporting a PDF-File

RobertBorchert — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:54:47 GMT

Interesting. I have had numerous issues when printing as printers may have their own interpretation of a color

Can you duplicate the issue using RGB.

However, what you are showing in your example is not CMYK black

Black is 0% 0% 0% 100%

Re: Colorissue while Exporting a PDF-File

Witherbys — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 19:49:01 GMT

Hi Kevin, did you find a fix for this? I'm experiencing similar problems that you describe except the CMYK values are all scrambled.

We send our maps to an external printer and would like to use 100% black for printing black linework and text.

Cheers, Lisa

Re: Colorissue while Exporting a PDF-File

BobbiLay — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 22:24:19 GMT

Same question! Has anyone found a solution? I make sure black is 0,0,0,100 and yet is still isn't 100% black when opened in Adobe.