Sample transparent color issue CS4

If anyone can help I would really like to know how I can sample a transparent color. I'm not talking about sampling the opaque original but the resulting color of the transparency on top. Holding shift with the eyedropper only selects the original opaque color, same result when I double click on the eyedropper tool and mess with the settings.

No direct way that I know of. You can do it by:
1.Rasterize the artwork; don't use the Effect, you must actually Object>Rasterize, then undo after
2. Shift-sample the object of interest to you and check the reading in the color panel
You can also save the file as a PDF and check the reading in Acrobat Pro.

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You say your running 10.5.6? Why haven't you updated to 10.5.8?
FWIW, I never had color issues under 10.5.X, however I have since upgrade to 10.6.
See the thread I started in which Adobe responded:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/483359

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[email protected] wrote:
> I am assuming that your Edit>Color Settings in both versions are set the same.
>
> In CS4, this can be related to the new OpenGL functionality. Try turning off OpenGL drawing in Edit>Preferences>Performance and see if that helps. If it is already off, try turning it on. :)
>
> If by doing this, you confirm that it appears OpenGL-related, then you might try playing with the Advanced Settings of OpenGL Drawing, particularly the one that says "Color Matching".
>
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Hi all,
I'd appreciate your help with this. I've tried researching this through the forum yet still find myself confused. I think it's a transparency flattening issue, but I'm unsure of how to fix it, and even at what point to fix it.
I designed this for a magazine ad in InDesign CS2 and exported to PDF. The polaroids have drop shadows, which look fine on screen:
But when I print I get these ugly "borders" where the transparencies are:
Can't get rid of them, except by printing the PDF as an image.
My questions are:
1) Assuming this is a transparency issue, how do I fix this? I've read about transparency presets on the forum, but (please forgive my lameness) I'm not sure how to actually apply them.
2) At what point do I fix this? I mean, as a best practice, is this something that's addressed inside InDesign, or during the export from InDesign, or when printing the PDF? It looked fine in the magazine so obviously they were able to fix it, but I'd still like to know what I'm doing wrong to save them extra work in the future.
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That's quite a color shift, too, on the background which seems like more than you'd see from a poor image capture of the printed piece.
I bet you are using a spot color. Unless you are actually paying to have that spot color printed in the magazine (if they even would), you shouldn't be using it. Make sure you go into the ink manager and convert all spots to process, or replace any spot colors with process colors. You should be the one handling the color conversion, and using process color will simplify the flattening, I think.
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