Retaining the proper colors when exporting to PDF?

[DamageInc]

I am doing a series of brochures for my company, and I'm using Adobe InDesign 2.0.1. It has an export to PDF function, but whenever I export anything, the PDF's colors are slightly off. For example, dark blues turn into brighter blues.

The source file is a CMYK composition.

Does anyone know of any way to accurately reproduce colors in Arobat?

 

[LiLithTecH]

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[DamageInc]

Thanks, this works to an extent, but it still just isn't right. I've got my color setting all matched up, but things just look brighter and more vividly colored (almost looking fake) when exported to PDF.

 

[notfred]

The entire purpose of CMYK is for printing. To display CMYK on a computer screen, it has to be converted to RGB. Maybe Acrobat's method of converting to RGB is different than InDesign's. I know that colors in Quark Xpress were never even close to what the printed peice looked like, but that's why you print proofs.

 

[Aso]

If you are using Acrobat 5 there is a setting in the preferences that lets you choose which color scheme to use. If you use the photoshop CMYK color filters then the CMYK colors should show correctly but this is a per machine setting so you can't gaurantee everyone will have it set this way or even have the option to change this. Also make sure when you convert them into to PDF that it maintains the fonts as vector graphics and doesnt not rasterize them otherwise they wont look as good.

-jason