PDF files shows the wrong colors

Hi I checked the file and the colour displaying differently is a spot Pantone colour, so as all the process CMYK colours are displaying fine you have a few options:

• Manually change the colour to a CMYK equivalent in Illustrator before export. This gives the greatest control over the converted colour.
• Use PDF export options to convert spot colours to processs upon export.
• Use Acrobat Pro, Callas PDFToolbox or some other app to change colour spaces post export.

Do any one of the three things above and you should see a correct equivalent colour.

I converted this for you using Acrobat Pro so you can test yourself. I will delete the file in a few days or when you reply The colour profile used is a standard North American print one, but you could use any profile. RGB would be best for web work:

https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/f6bb3278-9715-4150-757f-a85ce3bdbc6c

I have deleted the file from my account as several days have passed.

If anyone has this issue in fututue with apps displaying spot colours incorrectly and finds this post, use the one of the simple solutions above to convert the Pantone (or any other spot colour) to a regular CMYK or RGB colour and you will be fine.

If you absolutely need to use Pantone and an app does not support it, use the Pantone Bridge colour guide which gives you converted equivalents you can use.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by pichichi.