Timeline for Working CMYK or Document CMYK, what are the difference for color output in InDesign?
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| Nov 8, 2015 at 0:03 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | This answer is very unclear and hard to decipher. I've read it through twice now, and I still don't understand what it's trying to say. It's very simple, though: Working CMYK = the colour profile that InDesign is set to work in and interpret documents through (the one new documents will be, and the one it checks whether files you open are). Document CMYK = the colour profile embedded in the InDesign document itself. | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 19:39 | comment | added | Ganbayar Gansukh | Why do I have to export if I'm currently working on the document and export it. Still not clear, sorry. If I were currently working on the document, I would export it to RGB, since it will be used on monitors, if I print in house printers, not in press for final printing, I would be using the "Working CMYK"? | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 15:45 | comment | added | Peacockerie | @gburning has the right of it. Working CMYK is just what it says, only really used during the working process. In the end, it will all be outputted to whatever CMYK settings your program is set up to. | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 15:03 | comment | added | gburning | If I understand things correctly, working CMYK doesn't have any real effect on the way your document is ouput, it just changes the way it appears while you're working on it. As for the document color mode it would be CMYK in either case as you're designing for print. | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | Ganbayar Gansukh | My documents has RGB images and spot colors, I'm converting all the spots to process colors. So you are saying Working CMYK would be right fit for my document? vise versa Document Color should be used when there is no RGB images used in the document? | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 14:09 | history | answered | Peacockerie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |