GregoriusX

Have you ever worked with Adobe Illustrator or InDesign? When you double click a swatch in AI or ID you can change all of its properties, anytime I want. In AD you can only change its CMYK - or other color mode - values. InDesign: Illustrator: I hope this and other print features will be added soon. Otherwise this app is pretty much useless to me.

I just purchased the Affinity Designer Black Friday deal. I really love how fast and smooth AD works! As a graphic designer I mostly work in the print design area I immediately noticed some essential features were missing to continue my workflow in AD. People who are familiar with InDesign and Illustrator know these apps have a sturdy CMYK print support. I'm sure you (Affnity) are familiar with the matter. Changing swatch properties in ID and AI is really easy. When a global swatch is created in AD the only thing one can change afterward are the CMYK values. In AD there's no way to change overprint settings of a global swatch once its created. In ID or AI you just double click a swatch and change all of its properties. Why not name these colors spot colors in AD anyway? There seems no way to preview overprints in AD. This is essential for a CMYK print production workflow. In AI there's Overprint Preview so one can check overprint errors in advance (before exporting to PDF): I really miss the CMYK swatches from AI. I know HSL looks better on screen but I really need CMYK swatches in our print workflow. Do you have separate swatch files available for import in AD? In ID and AI it is very easy to change overprint properties of objects and text. There's no control in AD for this. I wisth there was a Separations Preview panel just like in AI: For now I only can play around with AD, which is fun I admit. Once the above features are incorporated in AD I can start thinking about using it in CMYK print workflow. I'm already looking forward to it.

Just purchased the Black Friday Affinity Designer deal. I love how fast and smooth Designer works! I really miss these features in AD. Please add them asap as I'm looking forward to using this app as my go to design environment.

I know, thanks. ⌘+T shows the Character panel. Pressing it again won't make it dissapear though, that's what I'm asking for. Most panels disappear by using the same shortcut again. But Character and Paragraph won't, maybe others too, that I did not check.

Some Studio panels appear / disappear when I press the relating shortcut. I use F7 for the Layers panel, press it and it appears, press again and it disappears. Please allow also for Character and Paragraph panels (and other panels I'm not mentioning if applicable).

Please add live updating of font size / leading / kerning etc increase or decrease when adjusting with arrow keys in related Studio panels. Now you only see the result of the change when you press Enter.

While running the AD beta I noticed that CMYK values change when changing the color profile in Document Setup. Asking about this in the beta forum for Mac a user told me that in Document Setup you just have to remember to change this if applicable. This is a bit scary. This is asking for trouble and not something you want in a professional and busy print environment. If someone forgets to Assign and instead have AD convert colors to match a certain color profile (as this is the default setting), this can have huge impact on a print run and cause financial damage / losses. A lot of printers use custom color profiles for their offset print settings, certain kind of paper and/or inks. If I forget to select Assign instead of Convert my work is ruined. For instance: a graphic with CMYK values 80/60/30/0 in Euroscale Coated changes to CMYK 74/59/20/11 in Coated FOGRA39, actually a completely diferent color. If I work in a FOGRA39 document layout for a certain client which uses particular brand colors, this graphic will not match other graphics in the same brand color as AD changed the CMYK values. The graphic will be processed according to the color profile of the document layout, so the particular graphic will undergo yet another color change as it does not have a matching color profile. I strongly recommend adding a default setting which appends / assigns a color profile instead of the default Convert. At least make this setting stick in Document Setup — if I click Assign I don't want it to have it revert back to Convert.

Since when do people remember these kind of software settings? This is asking for trouble and not something you want in a professional and busy print environment. If someone forgets to Assign and instead have AD Convert Colors (as this is the default setting), this can have huge impact on a print run and cause financial damage / losses. A lot of printers use their own color profiles for their offset print settings, certain kind of paper of inks. If I forget to select Assign instead of Convert my work is ruined. Where can I fill in a bug / feature request form to at least make the setting stick in the Document Setup?

How can I make 'Assign' the default? It always reverts back to "Convert" when I open Document Setup.

Well it's not so much that I am changing color profiles constantly, I just want color values to stay the same whenever I need to change the color profile. Now I needed to change the color profile from US or Euro Coated to FOGRA 39 and I noticed that the values changed. I don't want this to happen. When I import a logo in InDesign with changed color values it looks different as it has different CMYK values compared to other corporate identity colors / elements.

How to set this up in AD so it keeps the values the same?

As Lee D comments, have you tried this? Otherwise a bug / feature request would come in handy and I'd be glad to post it.

I'm new to AD and currently running version 1.7 beta. So far I'm liking AD, coming from Adobe Illustrator I can find my way quite easily. Working in print environment mostly I'm wondering why CMYK values keep changing when I change the color profile. I'm not used to this as in AI the CMYK values always stay the same in Illustrator. Is this the way AD works or am I missing something?

I'm new to AD and currently running version 1.7 beta. So far I'm liking AD, coming from Adobe Illustrator I can find my way quite easily. Working in print environment mostly I'm wondering why CMYK values keep changing when I change the color profile. I'm not used to this as in AI the CMYK values always stay the same. Is this the way AD works or am I missing something? [edit: posted in wrong forum, I work on a Mac]