CMYK black line art shows as gray in Pages

I'm creating a document that I need to print in CMYK. I changed each PNG image from RGB to a CMYK PSD. When I put the images into Pages, they are showing as gray. I can tweak them with the sliders, but it seems odd I should have to do this, and it's over 100 images, so it will take a long time, plus I don't trust it to stay black. I need the line art to stay black.


When I insert the same image in RGB or in Grayscale, it shows as black with no need to use the sliders.


Initially I was using Acrobat to convert the whole document to grayscale and CMYK but I had some inconsistent results so decided to change each image to CMYK and start all over. Now I've hit another roadblock. How can I get black line art? Should I go back to using Acrobat and how can I achieve black lines there (each page also has some gray dashes that originated in Pages and I want those to stay gray)? I don't know InDesign and don't have time to learn. Thanks for any help.

MacBook Air 13″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Nov 9, 2020 10:39 PM

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Nov 10, 2020 5:08 AM in response to victoria102

Pages is no replacement for proper, Professional-grade, DTP applications like InDesign, Quark, or Affinity Publisher, where your CMYK color model intentions are respected, and preserved. Pages attempts to spray-paint everything as RGB, and preserving true CMYK color space in Pages is a Sisyphean task. It is the wrong tool where you need precise color model adherence.

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