Version 4 ICC Profiles were converted to version 2 ICC Profiles during PDF Export error Indesign

Question

Version 4 ICC Profiles were converted to version 2 ICC Profiles during PDF Export error Indesign

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I am currently trying to export a file from Indesign into a PDF, however, I am getting the following errors:

Version 4 ICC Profiles were converted to version 2 ICC Profiles during PDF Export.

Followed by:

Failed to Export the PDF file.

I looked this up and came across this forum on Adobe help centre. Following the answers on there, I isolated the issue to Page 5 (which has a number of images). However, the forum suggested the problem was having an RGB image on a CMYK, but all my images on my file seem to be RGB (No CMYK) and since there is only an issue with one page, this must not be the issue.

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Does anybody know why this error keeps happening? How can I fix it or if need be override it to create the PDF?

Answer 1

Without knowing anything about the color profile your images have I can't go into details with what is going on, but often when stuff like happens a quick and dirty fix might be to somehow save the files again.

If you can open the images in Photoshop, try to do this with each of them:

• Open the image in Photoshop.
• Convert the image to another RGB color profile like Adobe RGB.
• Save the image.
• Update the image in InDesign.

If that doesn't help there might be some strange file corruption going on. In that case it might be helpful to copy/paste each image into a new document of the same size, save them and relink in InDesign.

BTW: Having RGB images in a CMYK document is a perfectly normal thing and isn't the cause of the problem.