Elektroautor

I've been a graphic designer for 25 years and I'm really happy to discover Affinity Publisher.
After several decades at Adobe, I am looking for some other new and innovative software.
Now I've bought Publisher and I'm in the process of converting my entire workflow from Adobe to Affinity.
What I read here, however, shocked me and for me, as a professional user, it was ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.
Is it really the case that CMYK is rasterized in RGB and then back to CMYK. Why rasterize at all when I have vector data?
I very much hope that it is perhaps only one setting in the program, as I do not want to admit it !! Or hopefully there will be an update soon!
Otherwise I have to stay with Adobe again, which I actually don't want either.
I don't understand if you design such great software and then implement such no-gos. Simply incomprehensible.
It's a shame. 😞

I noticed this too. You can see the difference between Affinity and the exported jpg here. Tried different resample settings and it's always the same. I know my monitor isn't calibrated but I would expect the colour to be the same even if it's not 100% accurate.

That's odd. Do you have changed your mind in the meanwhile?

Not the right decision, considering these are 'pro' applications and a lot of print houses do actually run many internally produced jobs direct to film/plate/digi press from InDesign or Quark - This is the first bit of feedback I've come across from the Affinity team that have addressed these concerns which I've been harping on about for a few years - I just assumed pro applications would send a CMYK job to a CMYK printer with less issues than a consumer inkjet - I've had my Xerox Phaser 6180DN for around 13 years which produces pretty accurate CMYK output and was shocked at how bad the print quality was from Affinity apps, all pure cyan magenta and yellow colour bars ends up with a noticeable dot of other colours when output from affinity plus vector information looks like its pre rasterised before it hits the printers postscript RIP - whereas when outputting from any Adobe / Quark / even an old copy of Freehand on an old mac gives pure CMYK colour bars and nice crisp reproduction of vector information  - My biggest concern here is it's another reason to hang onto Acrobat pro 9 , so in order to have faith in my workflow I still have no option but to stick with El Capitan - I've freelanced at a few print houses over the years and have found it frustrating how you come across production macs, that in some cases, still run mac OS as far back as Leopard which is too old for Affinity apps, yet they have complete faith in their 'old' workflows ---- As I would now describe myself as a Affinity Fanboy, I really hope the team eventually roll out professional print output - I just feel this could be a push for all those print-shops to upgrade 

This seems like a rather curious decision...

It looks unlikely that we will support printing directly in cmyk to printers - as you have found exporting to PDF/x standards and printing that is the workflow for this occasion.

I could really use an Auto Trace feature in Designer.  I hand draw pretty complicated illustrations which clients often want to have as a vector so they can be scaled up to be big vinyl installation murals.  It's kept me bound to using Illustrator as I can't find a third party software that converts the bitmap line art in the way I want.  I need to have the black lines traced AND the white areas so that they can be selected and coloured in Designer.  In Illustrator I select Live Trace then make and expand to do this.  I've tried Inkscape but unless I'm missing something, can't find a way of doing it.  I just get the black line art converted and the white areas change to transparent and can't select and colour them.  It's driving me a bit mad TBH.
I've included a typical illustration here as an example of the bitmap line work and the results I'm after.  

This is my main reason for using Adobe Illustrator. I will have to remain a slave to Adobe for as long as this is not an option with Affinity. I hope it does get added. I think it was a big oversight not to include it in the first place.

Inkscape is an open source project with a built in image trace tool. The code could be repurposed for this application. It's licensed under the GPL v.2 https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape
I'm sure someone else might have suggested this, but I hope my post helps to vote for this feature to move from the backlog and into development. It's surprising to find this post has been here for over 6 years.

trace functionality its a must. I vote on it.

+1 for this feature.
 
I've just installed this package. Never before i've seen such a beautiful user interface for this type of software.
 
Maybe a bit strange to start requesting features only hours after installation. This feature however is what i've been looking for and which actually made me discover Affinity Designer. Would be nice to have it in a future version.

Yes please! I just purchased Affinity Designer, and was very surprised to find there is no trace functionality..

Silhouette was an outstanding tool for that. It was last available as AI plugin. Maybe the developers of that great thing can get involved ...

Tracing will come in the future - but it will be a new 'Persona' (one of the main buttons along the top left of the window) so that it can have its own UI and tools. We have a fair few ideas for this - not just the obvious... :)  It's not coming any time soon though, I'm afraid to say...

Hi eross21,
At this point no, there isn't a tracing tool available. I don't know if they are considering it in their roadmap, since you're the first asking for it.

maybe I'm missing it, but is there an option to open a JPEG, or bitmap image
and trace,or convert it to a vector file for further editing? If not there should be one, it would be a great option. even if it had only a few modes like black and white, and 5 color
it would make me convince me to convert from adobe illustrator