I create PDF from Excel 2013 using Adobe Printer. When I do so I have problem with black which is 300 percent rich black instead of 100K. Problem is with lines or other symbols from Excel's Illustrations menu (text is fine).



I use Acrobat 9 Pro for pdf creation and few days ago switched from Office 2000 to 2013.....and problems started.

Office 2000 and Acrobat 9 Pro worked ok and everything including symbols like lines or squares were 100K black in PDF. Now in the case of Excel 2013 it is not so. However when I use new export function included in Excel 2013 and export file to PDF output is 100K. But this pdf is not ok for me because it missing fonts (I have error report in InDesign after importing of this pdf).

I imported Adobe PDF Settings from computer where these settings worked with Excel 2010 but they do not do same job for me in combination with Excel 2013 (I have 300 black). So I thing problem is in version of Excel.

To explain my workflow:

I am a publisher of crossword magazine and I use Excel to write crosswords. Then I create PDF's and import them into InDesign. But I need to have pdf with standard black (cmyk 0,0,0,100) instead of (cmyk 75,68,67,90).

I really don not understand why Adobe Acrobat Pro provides different results with Excel 2000 and 2013. I tried also Acrobat XI but without success. So I think problem is on Excel side.

Any suggestions how to set up Excel 2013 to obtain standard process black outcome like in the case of Excel 2000? Black text is ok only black symbols from illustrations menu are problem.

Thank you in advance