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6 hours ago, carl123 said:

So are comments like this.

If you want to reply to a 5 year old thread, why not do so constructively and state what you think is wrong and how it could be fixed/improved

1. Move alignment to an intuitive place. I always have to google how to find that stupid s**t.

2. Stop greying out distribute. I want to use it.

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5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Some screenshots would help. And a sample .afpub document.

Text should be fine if you make sure you are using a 0/0/0/100 color for it from the start. It's too easy to find and use the wrong black, and that should be improved in the applications.

For images: if you're talking about black & white images, look for a K-only button on the Context Toolbar.

K-only button? What's that? What's the context toolbar?

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1 hour ago, Alfred said:

If you clear the ‘Embed profiles’ checkbox in the Export dialog, you should find that PDF export retains black as K100.

No it doesn't. Just tried. The "convert image colour profiles" checkbox is also unticked.

No other software does this. I've fixed the text now (the fill was NOT in the colour tab, because that would be logical). But any image, even if I convert it beforehand in Photoshop to 100% K, will be converted to use colored inks. This is a nightmare.

To send to the printers, I have to have an ICC profile embedded, by the way.

Edit: Using the images as psd works somewhat. It still leaves like 5% cyan, which is stupid, but at least it's not trying to convert them anymore.

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Brilliant choice, Affinity Publisher!

LITERALLY impossible to force ink to be black only. Do you think this will make people use your shitty software instead of the almost-as-shitty InDesign?

[Has a worse piece of software ever been made?]

This is laughable. Text changing colors, the text boxes filling with a color despite not changing anything, everything impossible to find, and terrible brushes (in Designer).

Congratulations, you managed to make something worse than even Adobe!

[Why do I have to set the style for my brush for EVERY stroke?]

Seriously, you had a chance to crush Adobe who makes the world's worst designer software, but you came up with this?

Why do I have to apply a style to my brush stroke, for EVERY stroke? It can't even remember the width, so I have to set that as well.

Not to mention selecting colors, which is the most random, frustrating experience I ever had since the last time I used Illustrator.

Come on, man.