I am blessed to work in a rather high-end in-plant shop. I don't have the misery that you commercial folks do dealing with the stuff designers throw at you. But I do need help understanding the advantages and/or disadvantages in early vs. late profile conversion.
For years we have been converting all our images to CMYK before importing them into Indesign, and convert any spot colors our designers use as well and then output an X-3 PDF. If I output to a given profile as an X-1a PDF, I know my Adobe RBG images will convert, but the Indesign spot colors are throwing me off.
1. Why won't an X-1a PDF convert an Indesign spot color to CMYK?
2. Why does that same color convert differently (using the same profile) when it is saved as Lab, CMYK, or RGB in Indesign? The numbers in Acrobat vs. Indesign's separation preview are different.
Thanx for any input in advance.
For years we have been converting all our images to CMYK before importing them into Indesign, and convert any spot colors our designers use as well and then output an X-3 PDF. If I output to a given profile as an X-1a PDF, I know my Adobe RBG images will convert, but the Indesign spot colors are throwing me off.
1. Why won't an X-1a PDF convert an Indesign spot color to CMYK?
2. Why does that same color convert differently (using the same profile) when it is saved as Lab, CMYK, or RGB in Indesign? The numbers in Acrobat vs. Indesign's separation preview are different.
Thanx for any input in advance.