grayscale placed in Indesign dark

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Just noticed something odd..... a grayscale photo, when placed in inDesign becomes quite a bit darker. When editing in photoshop for example, a 17% area is coming through on the separations preview as 17%, it looks quite muddy.

When exporting to pdf it's the same, too dark.

Anyone seen this?

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sorry all, just noticed that the box had a 15% background color applied.

[David]

I was gonna say that...



 

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Yeah, it's the old KISS principle (keep it simple stupid).

My first reaction that it was some kind of hocus-pocus voodo color management thing. (dot gain, ICC profiles, color setting interchange between photoshop and Indesign, whatever).

[swampymarsh]

My first reaction that it was some kind of hocus-pocus voodo color management thing. (dot gain, ICC profiles, color setting interchange between photoshop and Indesign, whatever).

It always is, except for when it isn't.

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  yes, and i am always right....50 percent of the time