Problem with black

When I expoprt to pdf a black background with a black background graphic on top the graphic background comes out as a dark grey box. I am obviously doing something wrong but have no idea what. I haven't had this problem very often but now it is every time.

The appearance of CMYK black depends on the document's CMYK profile. On press black only (0|0|0|100) isn't absolute black—a black with CMY added would appear as a darker value. To get absolute black you have to add CMY to the mix. A common rich black mix is 65|50|50|100.

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Hi
I want to create PDF from Excel 2013 using Adobe Acrobat distiller. When I do so I have problem with black which is 300 percent black instead of 100K. Problem is only with drawed lines from Excel's symbol menu (text is fine).
I use Acrobat 9 Pro and few days ago switched from Office 2000 to 2013.....and problems started.
Office 2000 and Acrobat 9 Pro worked ok and everything including drawed symbols like lines or squares were 100K black in PDF. Now in the case of Excel 2013 it is not so but when I use export function included in Excel and export file to PDF output is 100K. I am not sure if this kind of export is good for me. I use PDF's as inputs to InDesign. So I would like to have more control when create PDF from excel. But in Excel setup I can choose standard and minimum size and that is all.
I imported Adobe PDF Settings from computer where these settings worked with Excel 2010 but they do not do same job for me in combination with Excel 2013 (I have 300 black).
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Thank you in advance
Juraj

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The issue you are experiencing is related to the video card, but we need to figure out if the problem lies within the hardware or the software.
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