TypeNerd

OH MAAAAAAAN! I hope that is it. I will try it out! Thank you!

So I prepare print documents for many different print houses. I always set up the color profile to the printer's specs, and convert all my photos to that cmyk profile before placing, and change all text to 100%K black color. If I work straight from this set-up to pdf output, all goes well. If I then open another document (which requires and was set up with different specs) I get "Affinity Publisher converted this document to your working profile" which includes switching all my text from a true 100%K black, back to a mixed black, and changing the color profile. (Interestingly, the color profile chosen is one I almost never use.) I get this message if I work in some other document and then return to my first one also. What the? How can I keep this from happening?

I would like to do this also! The press has sent me a .joboptions file an no additional information. (They of course are imagining I am working in the (dreaded) Adobe programs ... help!

(Coming out of InDesign experience here, where as long as you have everything set up correctly in CMYK, you were good to go to any output, so this is all news to me. And this was before all this color profile nonsense.) Sigh. I will try to adapt to this program being "so helpful" and changing my color on output to pdf. Because I abhor Adobe and never want to go back to paying their subscription prices. I got some good clues here, will continue to experiment. Thanks, all.

Hmmmmm. In InDesign, just setting the logo up in cmyk was enough, and defining the black as 100K in the logo ... I thought the "assign" choice in AffPub document setup would take are of that color assignment change? Looks like no? Do I have to create a logo for each color profile? Now that we are considering wacky thoughts, did the fact that my smallest type is set on an angle have anything to do with it converting to rich black on pdf export? (Something similar used to happen in early InDesign files, now I'm thinking back ...)

I started using the layer fx for outlines because it always "said" they were setup in 100k, and when you apply a stroke, you have to remember to do it every time. Thanks for this, and that will solve my outlines problem. Now to figure out why that PTFF logo exported as a rich black, and my smaller text, although the headline "held" the 100K black and printed fine. Sheesh!

Why is APub showing it as 100%K? I am flummoxed. I hate to go back to paying Adobe for InDesign.

No color conversion (except for exporting to pdf). I assigned all the outlines from the Layer effects, and they are defined as 100K, until export. See attached. I have the yellow dates chosen.

Also, the PTFF logo is built with a "true" black, but reads as a mix in Adobe Acrobat after export. (This is common with most logos upon export from A Publisher, I have noticed.) I need a quick solution to this problem, or I have to go back to using InDesign. Help! What am I missing?

OK. Here is the source file. Sample Color Export File.afpub

Either there is a disconnect between Adobe Acrobat's PrePress settings and Affininty Publisher's pdf settings, or there is some problem that happens upon export to pdf from A Publisher, or something else I do not understand. Most of the work I do is for print publications, so my files and images are all set up for cmyk output. My black text is all specified as 0C,0M,0Y, 100K so there will be no blurring on press. When making an outline on anything, I use the Layer Effects, which always specifies my "black" just as the text is defined. In this case, the ad was for newsprint, and the press wants the PDF/x-1a setting, which I used. (sample ad attached) When viewed in Adobe Acrobat: Print Production: Output Preview, The outlines applied to the red speech bubble, the yellow ampersand and yellow dates are still showing with the black channel turned off. Clearly, they converted to "rich black," (a combination of color) on export. My headline text and small text on the yellow boxes have disappeared with the black channel turned off, which means they are specified correctly as "true" (100K) black. (screenshot attached) However, when printed, the text on the yellow boxes printed as "mixed" black, you can see the mis-registration, which makes the text blurry. (See print sample, attached) Help! Sample Ad for Newsprint.pdf

Yes! Yes! A way to create a set of parameters for an object, #1 desire! So for instance, a way to set a border and text wrap quickly over and over by just choosing the name of the style.