[Is there a way to link duotone PSDs to a Publisher project?]

46 minutes ago, loukash said:

It's kinda an awkward workflow, but you can create duo-, tri- or quadtone layouts in Affinity.
The first and most important step is, however:
Forget everything about how you've been doing it in Adobe apps for the past few decades, and start anew with a blank mindset.

More on that here:

… and also here:

 

I read those two posts while researching this before started this one. Unfortunately, nothing in them solves my problems here. They seem to be able to get the look of a duotone but that doesn't help with file compatibility across systems and processes and seem way too labor intensive for a large book with nothing but b&w images. I really hope Affinity adds a real fix for this so I can get back to using it.

[Is there a way to link duotone PSDs to a Publisher project?]

Ah, thank you! I hadn’t tried that, but I’ll give it a shot when I get in to my studio later today. 

[Is there a way to link duotone PSDs to a Publisher project?]

I’m sad there really isn’t a workaround for this that keeps the duotone mode alive for the images. The ones I’ve seen in the forums here seem to find ways to fudge a duotone look, mostly with black and one spot color, but I’d really hoped by now there would be a way to be send true duotone b&w files to a printer. I really hope that support is added soon. As it stands I’ve had to subscribe to InDesign again, which is a shame because I prefer Publisher but if I can’t send the files to press nothing else matters.

[Is there a way to link duotone PSDs to a Publisher project?]

I've searched the forum and found a few discussions about the lack of duotone capabilities in Affinity products, which is shaping up to be a major problem for me as a photobook designer. I really want to keep supporting Affinity, though, and my printer is also trying to be super accommodating. They've converted all of the images from my current book for me to meet their specifications for duotone since I can't get Publisher to do it with the hopes I'd be able to relink the images to the duotone versions and export without any additional color conversion happening, but when I try to replace the images with the duotone PSDs I get a "file type not supported" error. Is there any way to make this work or am I just going to have to go back to InDesign for any black and white work?