Patrick Connor

Solid Coated V4 have no published CMYK equivalents. The ones on the website are not accurate they are only an approximation. The colour in that Swatch can only be reliably reproduced as a spot colour ink, and MUST be used as a spot colour in Affinity and exported to a PDF format that supports spot colours. So you don't need to worry about the on screen colour as long as you only use it as a solid or tinted colour and export correctly. What is your use case and why are you concerned about the numbers on the display? I suggest you export your design using spot colours and have it checked plate by plate. The pantone will not output on the CMYK plates if you don't want it to. I hope you can see this. Perhaps someone else here can explain better if you give us your file and explain the exact problem.

@Designer1 The CMYK for Pantone Process colors and from Pantone bridge colours, can be made to match the colours in the application. You should not use/rely on the CMYK colours from their website or our software for other parts of the Pantone range. hopefully this makes sense Here is my use of that Pantone colour which matches the website. As I said in the first place, if you could provide a document it would help us see what is happening. I would suggest your document is not CMYK colour model or uses the wrong ICC profile, but that is guesswork. Does my document work for you? Pantone 7462 CP.afpub

The new Affinity Publisher Workbook describes the use of the software as it currently exists (as found in the 1.9 beta), and does not include any descriptions of features not yet available to customers. It describes examples of uses of the software as it exists.

@gunnar.w Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums Thanks for the report, as you would expect the sample pages are made from the file that was sent to be reproduced (over a month ago) the stock is on it's way to the dispatch centres. @Pauls This correction will need to make it into a future reprint

Pantone do not provide software houses with CMYK equivalents for their Solid Coated V4 range, many of which for obvious reasons cannot be made using CMYK inks, which is why they make their money selling the actual ink/paint etc. Pantone only provide RGB values for that range to show them on screens and so you should not rely on the CMYK values provided by that site, as we have had to calculate values based on a RGB->CMYK conversion. For example choosing Solid Colours from that page leads to these type of pages that have this footnote ...and Affinity does not match those CMYK values on the site. There is nothing can be done about that. To be honest I am surprised that they are providing CMYK colours themselves, as they will not be accurate For Pantone Colour bridge range, a colour like 675-CP is correctly shown in app as [17,98,1,7] and Pantone Process colours like P25-16C is correctly represented in our applications as [0,57,100,35]. If that is not your experience, then please provide a sample file, but please note Pantone makes their money on spot colours that cannot be represented adequately or reliably with CMYK inks.

This in not enough information for us to investigate. You will need to provide a sample document and a workflow, for example what settings you are using when exporting to what format and your expectations. e.g Spot colour Pantones or Pantone Process? Applied to what objects? (sample file) Exported to what file format (using what settings)? Colour management settings?

There is now official news on the Publisher Workbook, which is available to pre-order and shipping from 7th December

There is now official news on the Publisher Workbook, which is available to pre-order and shipping from 7th December

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@helekorn Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums I see that you have bought our desktop software at the 30% off sale price 379 kr (NOK). Do you think this was not discounted or did you experience a problem but solve this yourself (like DxDark)?

Well that's not great. Sorry about that I will report it. I see you didn't buy Affinity Publisher on that account. Did you change your mind?

Yes, what a dunce I am.. 🙃 thanks Alfred. I have modified my (rubbish) post (gets more coffee ☕) I read it as that Gignero bought it two days after the post but without a discount, not as he meant that he bought it at full price and then two days after the Black Friday sale started.

@DxDark Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums Can you tell me what seemed to cause this and how it was solved in case it comes up again? It is not clear from your account what transpired

@Gignero Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums I see you bought Affinity Photo from the Affinity Store a few days before the sale started, that is unfortunate. Thanks anyway

The sale price applies to all methods of purchase from Mac App Store, Microsoft Store, iPad Store and Affinity Store.

I knew I had said something somewhere, I could not remember where.... sigh oh well. However, nobody could have completely foreseen 2020 I think you will agree

New feature tutorials tend come out just after the official release (to allow the feature to mature during beta). I am sure @James Ritson is working on one

4 posts and 3 days since you joined

That is not how the trial always works. We reset the trial, so it can be used by those who have already tried it in the past, when we decide to, so it is not automatically going to happen for 1.9.0 and again for 1.9.1 and 1.9.2 etc. We may well reset the trial for 1.9.0 as has been done a few times in the past, but it may not be reset till say 1.9.2 or 1.9.3 or perhaps not for 1.9.x at all. It is a business decision based on sufficient major new features not a programmatical based on release numbers. Any trial for version 2.0 will work for all users (I think it is bound to be reset) but we do not guarantee anyone can retry the trial earlier than that, to allow users to try the software again.

@Andrea Veroni Benvenuto nei forum di SERIF Affinity The next major release 1.9.0 will support that camera, the list is here. If you want to buy now (while we have a 30% Black Friday sale) you can use the 1.9.0 customer beta to confirm compatibility, and if it does not work as you need get your money back within 14 days La prossima major release 1.9.0 supporterà quella fotocamera, l'elenco è qui. Se vuoi acquistare ora (mentre abbiamo una vendita del Black Friday del 30%) puoi utilizzare la versione beta del cliente 1.9.0 per confermare la compatibilità e, se non funziona, devi riavere i tuoi soldi entro 14 giorni

@PhotoSuprgeon20 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums Is this a problem that happens in this current Photo beta version 1.9.0.852 or is this a problem with the release build. If it is problem with the release build please post in the Questions forum, if it's specific to the beta can you please make a new thread in this beta forum, as the beta thread is not the ideal place for assistance

@Edmund DelSol Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums This thread was made during the long Publisher public beta. Publisher was launched in June 2019. We appreciate that Footnotes and Endnotes are going to be useful to many customers and we plan to add many more features like this in future versions and releases, sorry that this has disappointed you but Publisher is being used in it's present form by many users, though perhaps not for your use case.

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