I take a lot of screen shots which I need to place into ID documents.
Because most of that work will be output as PDF for onscreen viewing, I leave the screen shots as RGB. (Better to see all those beautiful aqua colors on OS X.)
But when I do leave the images as RGB, I get an alert when I go to package my file. Turns out all the RGB images are flagged as a possible problem.
I finally figured out how to avoid the flagged problems. Instead of saving my screen shots as PSD or TIFF, I save them as PDF.
InDesign doesn’t see an RGB PDF file as an RGB document! If you place an RGB file saved as Photoshop PSD, it will not show up as the RGB color space. Instead, the type of file is listed as PDF.
This has become a terrific way for me to avoid getting unwanted RGB flags.
However, it is something important to remember if you do need to flag RGB files. In those cases, remember that Photoshop PDF documents won’t get flagged in the Preflight or Packaging commands.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on November 1, 2006
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