cmyk mixture black when I want k

[sarah_lucas@adobeforums.com]

Well Len, I guess that may have been what happend somewhere along the line, but not intentionally. I have sorted it now by creating a new start up file.
Thanks.

[DJ_Allen@adobeforums.com]

Sarah,

Open your template file. The document color mode is displayed at the top of the frame after the file name and the zoom ratio. Does it say (CMYK/Preview) or (RGB/Preview)?

If it says (RGB/Preview), go to File, Document Color Mode, and check CMYK Color.

Selecting CMYK Color when you start your next new file will set the default to CMYK Color for all new files.

Don...

[Dwain_Alford@adobeforums.com]

I had a very interesting thing happen today. i had a ill9 file open in rgb. i added some text to the file, saved it and closed it. when i reopened it, i got a message saying that the file contained both rgb and cmyk info. this had me stumped for a while. i didn't get this message when i had created the file and closed and reopened it.

I deleted the text, saved the file and reopened it. no message. when i clicked the text tool, the color sliders changed to cmyk. the color mode for the file was rgb. i changed the sliders from cmyk to rgb, saved the file, closed it and reopened it. no message.

I thought this was some strange behavior.

dwain alford