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  1. Heureka!!"!!!!!!! One of Lagartos versions worked! Zero – in words – Zero 4c pages!!!!!!!!!!! FYI: The 200-test_fixed_cmyk worked, the other one (grey) still showed four 4c pages. Since at least Lagarto and thomaso have put in lots of their valuable time and efforts to get me there, I would like to send you a copy of the book, if you provide me with an address privately to send it to. It might take a bit, the book has to be finished first (the new graphics exchanged) and printed, but this should be seen as an appreciation for your time and efforts. Only if you want.
  2. :-) I have layouted and produced 8 major books and several brochures so far, a lot of flyers and other similar material like posters and marketing material and do consider myself a professional in this matter. But the material usually is today 4c in all pages or just 4c in the cover and the complete inlay in b/w. That is my daily normal. The complex mix in this book with 4c illustrations, b/w illustrations and just text was new to me and gave me some challenges in exporting the book for the minimum print price. :-) Although I am able to fly complex airplanes I prefer the ones with only basic instruments. Stick and rudder flying. To fly a plane visually you barely need any instruments at all. Just (very) good airmenship and understanding of physics, weather and the ability to judge your own limits. But this subject does not belong into this forum. With due respect – I disagree. If you have to handle things frequently and on a timely matter, "easy" to use comes in very handy (which the Aff series in my opinion normally is, especially the workflow). Also fail safe processes help for professional productions. The time to fiddle and fuddle around no professional has, only people who use this as a hobby. Which is fun and ok, too. :-)
  3. Thank you all for your substantial explanations and knowledge. Eventually I will (have to) get an expert on colour management. @thomaso If my suggested way is not possible during the export process as pdf (which you explained) then it should be done as a pre-process just before. Anyway I would like to have this feature. The Aff series provides so much detail (that I and most of us do not need), that this addon should be one of the basic features of a professional layout publishing program. Exporting/Importing the drawings as a closed format (jpeg or whatever) will not work in my work flow, since the graphics get sometimes disaggregated (on purpose) on some pages (only parts are used or changed). Thats why I love the Aff series so much, this can be done easily in a workflow if you stay in the Aff family SW formats. Again, I am a big fan of the Aff series, having worked for years with all Adobe products until they got into the SW cloud nonsense (different subject not to be discussed here). @LagartoThank you for sending the adjusted files privately. I appreciate your efforts very much. (Cannot work on this during the day.) Oh yes, I had spent several days, more than 30 hours trying to get the 9 pages in s/w without a major result before I finally had given up and contacted this forum. I did have basic knowledge about colour management, e.g. difference of RGB and CMYK and how they work/are used, but the greyscale was new to me and a lot of other detailed knowledge you guys provided here! Love to learn, but sometimes it is a struggle if you have be productive at the same time.
  4. Thanks guys for the research. I have tried so many ways to get this fixed. And yes, asking for the drawings in Greyscale only was one of them. I still think, if a user defines (=wants) a greyscale drawing only, the program should respect that and convert the respective drawing/page in a CMYK document as CMY=0 on export. Masks in drawings (done in Affinity Designer) also seem to be one of the problems. ok, I will try this, but this then has to be done already in Aff Designer. since the whole CMYK document has to be exported in fogra39 for the printing process. @Lagarto,Thank you for your insight, but please remove all drawings in your post due to copyright. @thomaso: Thank you also for your insight, but please remove the download in your post. Thank you both for your consideration, I do not own the rights to post the graphics on the internet. I will work on all the hints and wisdom given, thanks again to everybody who contributes to this post. ------- Still I would like to see a feature on export in Aff Pub, a panel, where a user can define for one single CMYK document, e.g.: CMYK pages 1,3,7,9.......are in 4c and CMYK pages 2,4,5,6,8...... are force defined as b/w and such – if needed – are converted by the export process without further ado. This would be very helpful for a book production and is definitely needed not only by me.
  5. Thank you thomaso for your offer to help. I extracted the culprit graphics in these pages.
  6. Thank you for your answers. Unfortunately my book of 48 pages is not as simple as that. I have 30 pages with 4c illustrations, some pages with text only (that I figured out how to make B/W only) and some (9 pages) with black line drawings which turn to 4c after export as pdf. Those 9 pages I really need to stay in CMY=0, k(100 or whatever), as they were specified before the pdf export. All illustrations, the whole book is based on CMYK – and such the whole pdf. You cannot send several pdfs for one book to a printing office. Fogra39 as requested by the print shop. Book printing in 4c is very costly, such a professional publishing program has to be able to mark specific pages as a whole in B/W. Why is this so complicated? Better to say: impossible in Affinity Publisher? I am not the only one struggling with the b/w issue as seen in other Affinity forums. Could the developers please take this issue seriously and provide a user friendly solution as soon as possible? --- I have done books in QuarkXpress, in InDesign but the colour management in the Affinity series is pretty special. Alas, since otherwise I consider it a very good SW series.
  7. how can I mark specific pages as black and white in a CMYK document for professional print PDF? (It is a cost factor. Otherwise the price doubles for the printing of the 48 pages book.) Where is the panel to do that? Thx.
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