Spot color changes to white when exporting to eps or pdf

It looked like part of the logo was disappearing, but discovered it was changing to white.
Changing to cmyk meant it couldn't then be adjusted in the Ricoh.
I did finally bring in a new pantone color, and changed the cmyk values, keeping it as a spot.
But WHY did this happen in the first place? It was an old file we'd used many times before.

Name of the color should not be a problem, you would get an error if you used an offending name.
If this shape on a layer set to this
And if your settings for print are NOT visible & PRINTABLE, then what you described would happen, even when saving a .pdf or .eps.
Also let us know where you are not seeing your orange, in acrobat or where? Your seps preview set as below would cause what you described.

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I am using Acrobat 8 version 8.1.2, and InDesign version 5.0.2.
I am noticing a very specific problem when exporting some files to PDF from InDesign.
We often have a format where we have a numbered list of right-aligned number, followed by some text, a leader line, and then another number at the end of the line. This is set up with a left indent and a first line left indent (rather than using the numbered list options), and then the necessary tabs later in the lines.
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I haven't tried printing to PDF. I will try that and see what happens. Unfortunetly, where I work we are required to export to PDF rather than print to PDF, so if it works it will only be a clue for me rather than a solution.
Thanks for the reply. I'll try a cross post to the InDesign forms.

Background color changed from white to yellow and =25% changed to %% on email

I type =25% on my email and sent out, background color changed from white to yellow and =25% changed to %%.

Try leaving a space after the =
Thus: = 25%
Where and when did it change? Did it change inside Thunderbird? Did it change in the Sent folder? Or in a reply to you?
= and % are used in certain types of email encoding; =20% often appears, meaning character 0x20 which is 32 denary or the space character. It is often used where an explicit space would be illegal, and this is common in URLs and other links. I'm thinking that =25% similarly has a special meaning. It ''shouldn't'' get decoded, but software is buggy.
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[svn:fx-trunk] 5313: Application, WindowedApplication, and Window background color changed to white.

Revision: 5313
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2009-03-13 19:10:24 -0700 (Fri, 13 Mar 2009)
Log Message:
Application, WindowedApplication, and Window background color changed to white.
QE Notes: None
Doc Notes: None
Bugs: sdk-16721
Reviewer: Ryan
tests: checkintests, cyclone build tested
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/sdk-16721
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/airframework/defaults.css
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/defaults.css
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/tests/checkinapp/checkinapp.css

Hi,
When system is in a sleep mode or hibernate mode, it will save the data ans settings in memory or hard disk, so I suggest you run a memory check and a harddisk check and see if it can detect any errors.
Memory check (instruction is similiar to windows 8\8.1, type "memory" in the search charm bar)
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows7/diagnosing-memory-problems-on-your-computer
Hard disk check
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee872425.aspx
Meanwhile, please check event viewer to find more information, useful path: event viewer\Windows logs or event viewer\Applications and Services Logs\Kernel-power
Yolanda Zhu
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Blue row color is becoming white when the mouse is over the blue rows

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In Lightroom 4, is it possible to change the resolution when exporting to Facebook?

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