Adobe Illustrator File Shows Wrong FIll Colors

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sdmulroy
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Adobe Illustrator File Shows Wrong FIll Colors

Postby sdmulroy » Fri Mar 28, 2014 5:48 pm

Hi. I am very new to InkScape. I'm having a problem where when i open up an .AI file the fill colors are not right at all. for instance what should be grey is actually showing light lime green. This seems like an easy fix but I've no idea what to do and have exhausted my searches.

I should probably also say that embedded images are showing the correct colors.

tylerdurden
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Re: Adobe Illustrator File Shows Wrong FIll Colors

Postby tylerdurden » Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:30 pm

Can you upload an example .ai file?
Have a nice day.

I'm using Inkscape 0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06), 64 bit win8.1

The Inkscape manual has lots of helpful info! http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/

Lazur
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Re: Adobe Illustrator File Shows Wrong FIll Colors

Postby Lazur » Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:46 pm

Hi.

Probably the .ai file you are using is in cmyk.
There is not much option to do about it in inkscape.
Make a search how can you convert it to rgb, which than should look fine in inkscape too.

sdmulroy
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Re: Adobe Illustrator File Shows Wrong FIll Colors

Postby sdmulroy » Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:57 am

Lazur URH wrote:Hi.

Probably the .ai file you are using is in cmyk.
There is not much option to do about it in inkscape.
Make a search how can you convert it to rgb, which than should look fine in inkscape too.


Thank You so much!

sdmulroy
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Re: Adobe Illustrator File Shows Wrong FIll Colors

Postby sdmulroy » Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:18 pm

So I got my employer to check the settings and the mode was set to rgb in document settings i believe. Is there maybe some fills that are incompatible? I ended up having him export as png and working from that with gimp.

v1nce
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Re: Adobe Illustrator File Shows Wrong FIll Colors

Postby v1nce » Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:01 pm

Does it use blend mode ?


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