Black areas in Adobe Illustrator files show up gray in Keynote

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Black areas in Adobe Illustrator files show up gray in Keynote

When I bring an Illustrator file into Keynote, parts of the image that are 100% black in the illustrator file show up as about an 80% gray when inserted into a Keynote slide. Is there a workaround or a fix for this? Using the instant alpha in Keynote to remove the black from the image doesn't produce acceptable results.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jan 5, 2011 10:00 PM

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nachocab

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May 15, 2014 4:50 AM in response to AndyMSFe

Make sure the illustrator document that contains your image is set to RGB color mode. You can change this by going to File | Document Color Mode | RGB

Also, make sure that your color panel is set to RGB mode (you can change this by clicking on the flyout menu, you should see the 3 RGB slides, not 4 CMYK). Then select your image and apply black (R=0, G=0, B=0). Now if you copy and paste into keynote it should show up as true black.

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