vincent_berlin

I can only confirm, what has been said before... The whole way colours are handled in Affinity MAKE ME CRAZY! I do DTP since 20 years and NEVER before had that kind of trouble. I do not understand what is so difficult here to have it as simple as... - InDesign! Of course designers want and need to make definitions what kind of colours should be on the paper. Really every company has it's own blue, green, yellow (whatever) and that is to be printed EXACTLY in that values. Affinity Publisher makes it nearly impossible to achieve that very basic thing. I need to spend far too much time to get back into that software, have to find strange workarounds and finally check everything in an external application, what Publisher has "cleverly" done to my colours. I guess it isn't really made for professional use in a workflow with offset printing...

Very nice, that this subject has some attendance now! Indeed: you can only switch off "embed profiles" for PDFs without "x" specifications. But then you'll get a PDF, that still has the CMYK colours you have choosen. Exact colours is important for very professional print, especially when there is a "corporate" scheme. The second interesting thing (same story...) of course is, how to receive a BLACK, that isn't "look-alike" black, but that also results in black paint... For TEXT exported from PUBLISHER (after hours) I found a way to create an own spot colour, that just consists of BLACK. (No Magenta, Cyan or Yellow in it). Because what Affinity names "black" results in a composition of all FOUR Colours. (Sorry to say so: InDesign is so much better in this! You have a list, what's definitely in your document and that's it.) But for VECTORS (created in DESIGNER) this isn't working! On the "Effect" Panel you choose a colour, that's definition ist 100% black (0% Cyan, 0% Magenta, 0% Yellow...). But when exporting this (and I guess, I tried EVERY POSSIBILITY) you'll finally have your shades constisting of FOUR COLOURS! (Example enclosed). And I doubt, that this is the truth, but I haven't found a way. (I did: with Photoshop I changed every single vector into grayscale...) Best regards, Vincent circle-with-gray-shadow.pdf

I designed a logo in Designer. It's a geometric sign, it's colour is only blue. I choose colour values for Spot color (Pantone), RGB and CMYK. (And all of them also marked as Spot / decor colours!) Now I need to export this logo as a file, that every graphic designer (with his/her Adobe Software) can work with. I thought, that .eps might be a good option. But obviously these colour values are not included in my eps-file: Pantone get's lost completely and both CMYK an RGB aren't the same after importing the EPS into InDesign. I can switch off colour management in Adobe – but not in Affinity, my original -afdesign seems to needs a profile. Could someone please give some advice? Thanks so much! DFI-Logo-3-blues.afdesign

I have the same problem. Even making a double definition - by choosing a Pantone Colour from the color pattern + clicking on "Schmuckfarbe" (spot color)– in the end the eps has never heart about a spot colour. The same procedure with CMYK (defined as a spot colour) results in a PDF that is correct, but not in a EPS.

Hi there, How can I switch off the color profile in Affinity Designer and Publisher? I need a "pure" PDF-X4 exported for my print house without any profiles embedded. (Enclosure of profiles is obligatory for every PDF standard over 1.8 in Publisher, you can't disable the embedding) Any idea how to get rid of these profiles? Thanks so much, Vincent