Kurt Wilson

Thank you, Lee.

Hello, Are you able to rescue a truncated file? Can you accept via WeTransfer? Thank you. Windows 10 Affinity Publisher

Thank you, lacerto. Right now, it's Print On Demand, not offset, if that makes a difference in CMYK conversion specs. To review, at the initial creation of the document, if I toggle to the correct Color Profile, and select "Assign" in the Document Setup, then manually define all K100 text within the document, and leave "Convert image color spaces" in the Export options unchecked, then the graphics should remain true to color and the K100 text fully black in the final export. Is that correct? Another curiosity: If I chose for Publisher to Convert placed images to the Color Profile in the Document Setup, but then also told it to "Convert image color spaces" to the same Color Profile in the Export option, is that redundant? Would it cause any problems in the conversion?

Thank you lacerto. This book has all color text designed into the graphics as shown on the attached sample page, though for future books when the text is black and separated from graphics, your direction is invaluable. The original document is in RGB mode, since the publication is also an eBook. I have superimposed the Document Setup dialog box on top of a sample page with colored text to show my Color Format is set to CMYK/8, and the Color Profile is the AVL CMYK 2012-GRACoL2006_Coated1v2 for the printed version. I am also attaching the revised export screen shot to show the entire Document Setup and Export flow for print.

Very good, thanks again!

Thank you thomaso for your valuable input. It's my printing company I need to satisfy, so being my first time converting and submitting a CMYK PDF, I am learning what it takes for a successful export. I am curious about your perspective on activating JPG compression. Also, I thought Lanczos 3 Non-Separable was a superior resampling method. What are your thoughts?

Lacerto, thank you for taking the time for this helpful and detailed response. Going back to the Color Space toggle, I have now chosen CMYK in the drop down menu. I will also toggle Rasterize to "Everything." The Coated GRACol2006 ICC Profile is a preset downloaded directly from Bookbaby, since the book will be printed on glossy paper. Having so tweaked the export specs, would you agree this should be a successful conversion?

I'm using Publisher to convert my fully illustrated children's book to CMYK, and export the PDF to the book company for printing. The illustrations are photo quality. I plan to use PDF/X-4 in the conversion and I am showing a screenshot of my export specs. Would you please confirm or correct my settings? Thank you.