color change on PDF in InDesign

[cjwworld]

I have a problem with color changes in PDF's. I am able to open an customer PDF and it is rich in color but when I place inside an InDesign Document, the color flatten out and even changes gama.

Why does this happen? The press guys print the job and it is very close to the Indesign Document but not the original PDF.

Can someone point me in the right direction? The only thing I control as far as CMYK is in Photoshop CMYK settings. I have medium black (85%) and 260% total color.

Is there something amiss? I appreciate any feedback

thanks

cjwworld
G5 Mac OS X 10.4.9 ECRM Harlequin v7.0

[colorblind]

Is the PDF CMYK or does it contains RGB? Run a preflight profile in Acrobat Pro to find out. You should also check your InDesign color settings and print options to see what are your color management policies. Could also be a rendering intent issue in Acrobat 8 when viewing your PDF with the "Output Preview" palette.

[y2b]

sounds like you have an embedded color profile somehwere...make sure you'r pdf's are saved out with "no color conversion" selected

[cjwworld]

Originally Posted by colorblind

Is the PDF CMYK or does it contains RGB? Run a preflight profile in Acrobat Pro to find out. You should also check your InDesign color settings and print options to see what are your color management policies. Could also be a rendering intent issue in Acrobat 8 when viewing your PDF with the "Output Preview" palette.

Preflight says there is no non-CMYK objects. Color management is turned off. FYI, this is primarily with PDF that we do not produce. I usually have to deal with others PDF's. FYI, i am using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Profession primarily to use Enfocus Pitstop software.

Here is one PDF that has me puzzled and here is the screenshot of Document Properties :

Picture-1.jpg

cjwworld

[cjwworld]

I found what the problem is. Color Management was turned off. I selected our 4-clr color setting that we setup for the press.

thanks for all those who replied.

cjwworld