PDF export altering image coloring

[MMA625]

Hello! I am working in Vectorworks 2024 on a 2022 Macbook Pro. Every time I go to export my sheets to PDF, the color changes drastically. See attached. Left portion is how it appears in VW and the right portion is how it exports.

 

I've changed color preferences in Adobe to try various color settings to no avail. To boot, the print drive on Apple was updated many months ago and I am not able to print to PDF as a work around that's been offered in other postings. Anyone have other tips or workarounds? @Vectorworks, any way to update these settings in future versions? According to other posts, this seems to be a recurring issue that's been happening for years now. 

 

 

 

[Kevin McAllister]

I've been having this same issue, both in Vectorworks 2024 and now in Vectorworks 2025. I've tried a variety of things to combat the shift, including making sure all my images for textures are converted to CMYK before importing them into Vectorworks, but the colour shift still happens.

 

Quality of colour output is important in design. Its difficult when the intended colours don't transfer to output shared with clients.

 

How do we solve this?

 

Kevin

 

Screen shot from Vectorworks vs. Screen shot of PDF output. The colours are more garish and saturated.

 

[line-weight]

This is a long standing issue, that has been reported many times, but seems to be ignored by VW.

 

There is currently a bug filed for it, unresolved.

 

 

 

 

 

[Kevin McAllister]

5 hours ago, line-weight said:

This is a long standing issue, that has been reported many times, but seems to be ignored by VW.

 

There is currently a bug filed for it, unresolved

 

I thought that might be the case 😔

 

@JuanP is correcting this on the roadmap somewhere?

 

Thanks,

 

Kevin