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Dark PDFs
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Nope. The photos in my pdfs looks great on my macbook pro, look great when printed, but on the iPad are dark.
I'm guessing your Macbook and the Preview app and certainly the Adobe Reader software looks at the calibration and color profiles of your display. It may be the pdf applications on the ipad and phone are not honoring the embedded colorspace and profiles of the images/pdf.
If that's the case, a software update from Apple for its pdf rendering on the phone/tablet would be needed or a special renderer from the 3rd party would have to be developed to do so. Since PDF rendering is already built-in I don't see that happening. Its no development to add viewing PDFs to an app, but if you have to write your own 'viewer' to honor color the only people willing to do that would be Apple, Adobe or some 3rd party developer who specializes in graphics.
If that's the case, a software update from Apple for its pdf rendering on the phone/tablet would be needed or a special renderer from the 3rd party would have to be developed to do so. Since PDF rendering is already built-in I don't see that happening. Its no development to add viewing PDFs to an app, but if you have to write your own 'viewer' to honor color the only people willing to do that would be Apple, Adobe or some 3rd party developer who specializes in graphics.
I know this thread is 6 months old, but does anyone know how to fix this or if there even is a fix.
I would like to be able to keep my Magazine/Program Book work on my iPad to show off, but the images are way too dark and over saturated.
Thanks!
I've never had a problem with PDF's being too dark. I have never used any that I have scanned personally, they have been pdf's I've downloaded from the internet (training manuals, books, etc.) I'm not sure if I actually had too many image heavy pdf's that weren't black and white really so I'm not sure if I'm looking at the same kind of pictures you are.
Dark PDFs
Hi everyone,
Was just trying to figure this out myself today. I have an iPad and GoodReader, with 4 PDFs.
3 of the PDFs were fine, with the same colours and tones as I have on my computer. The other (which is the only one I exported myself) was extremely dark.
After playing about a bit with InDesign, I changed the 'colour' preferences, in the 'Output' section when exporting to PDF. When I changed the 'Destination' to 'Apple RGB', my PDF now looks fine on the iPad.
I understand that this isn't much help to anyone who's just downloaded PDFs from other sources, but for anyone who has to export them themselves, changing the colour destination to RGB worked for me.
Hi everyone,
Was just trying to figure this out myself today. I have an iPad and GoodReader, with 4 PDFs.
3 of the PDFs were fine, with the same colours and tones as I have on my computer. The other (which is the only one I exported myself) was extremely dark.
After playing about a bit with InDesign, I changed the 'colour' preferences, in the 'Output' section when exporting to PDF. When I changed the 'Destination' to 'Apple RGB', my PDF now looks fine on the iPad.
I understand that this isn't much help to anyone who's just downloaded PDFs from other sources, but for anyone who has to export them themselves, changing the colour destination to RGB worked for me.