Export PDF rgb warning?

Hello,
Working on CS5 on a mac..
I have defined a working preflight profile that will give an error message when RGB images are used in the document.
This is usually enough to ensure no RGB images slip through the net when I export PDFs,
but is it possible to change preferences so that Indesign will give a warning pop-up if I try to export a PDF,
like how it does to warn of missing fonts?
Thanks very much in advance.
Ben

@Ben – it's always better to do another preflight in AcrobatPro.
So you can be sure nothing slipped through…
And: do not rely on preflight for all problems. Check your pages in Output Preview in AcrobatPro page by page, toggle [Black] separation on/off, "Total Area Coverage", "Color Warnings" …
Uwe

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This community has been of great help no end thus far.
For my booklet, i would say 90% of the layout is images created in Illustrator. What is best practice here for scans or images which have been screen printed or ar basically RGB?
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The only reason you might want to convert to CMYK before export is if, and this is the most important factor, you already know the correct output profile for the device on which this will be printed and you will NEVER want to repurpose the art for another device, and if you want to be able to tweak the image and sharpen after conversion.
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Hi there,
I'm trying to export a web pdf with RGB color settings but it doesn't work. Everything looks good in the Indesign document and I've switched to RGB transparency blend space. When I export to a interactive pdf it comes out as a CMYK pdf and when I try a print pdf i just get the error: "1 problem (1 failure) was found with a background task: mydocument.pdf"
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Where are you viewing the exported PDF? If it's AcrobatPro you might have a CMYK simulation profile set.
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Dear Friends,
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Failed to Export PDF.
OK
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The document itself should be valid, no links are missing or update-needing and all in used fonts are available on the system Indesign is running.
I had already searched for a solution, or at least a reason for this error message, and found the following pages, dealing with that error message:
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Because there are no further informations provided except that the export failed, it is not very easy to track down the reason for this problem.
Is there a log file for export or general application issues?
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Thank you for your answers!
Exporting page 2 alone leads to an PDF-export-error.
The error happens when PDF-file finalization is in progress.
I found out that embedded PSD-files caused the problem.
After un-embedding them, the PDF-export worked well, also for both pages.
Now however, there are still some questions open:
Why do embedded PSD-files cause an export-failure during PDF-export?
Why aren't any information given to user about this failure?
With best regards
Inno

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InDesign CS6: Green hue across PDF with RGB images in it, Correct colours in PDF with all CMYK images.
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