barkingdog

OK! Thank you everybody. I was able to do what I wanted in Designer. The printers that make copy for are small Mom & Pop. They will hang me out to dry if the copy is bad. I don't want to lose anyone. Thank you again.

I think we're making progress here. Could I be using Designer or Photo? I think I'm seeing on google that this can be done. Any idea how this was done for the Affinity workbooks.

Yes Halftones. You need a magnifying glass. That gray on the right side of the page is actually black dots. The bigger the dots the darker the gray, or the more dots the darker the gray. The blue picture on page 402 is one color. The darker color has more dots than the lighter color. The young lady on page 262 is made of four color dots. Cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK). In PageMaker or Indesign I could enter the number of dots per inch and the angle; and print the separations (4 pages of black dots, CMYK). From this the printing company would make his four plates. Today I email a file of the separations to the printing company. Wikipedia explains this much better than I can. Just type in CMYK. There are fewer printing companies around these days. I can't afford Adobe. I don't print. I provide artwork; the negative used to make the offset plate (so to speak). In page 345 of the Publisher Workbook; the right side of the is printed in black ink. There is no gray ink on the page. Only halftones. Tiny black dots that appear gray because of the white background. That is what I am trying to do. Help me. By the way the whole Publisher Workbook is is printed using CMYK with some spot colors. I can do that using Adobe products. Can this be be done using Affinity products.

Yes Halftones. You need a magnifying glass. That gray on the right side of the page is actually black dots. The bigger the dots the darker the gray, or the more dots the darker the gray. The blue picture on page 402 is one color. The darker color has more dots than the lighter color. The young lady on page 262 is made of four color dots. Cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK). In PageMaker or Indesign I could enter the number of dots per inch and the angle; and print the separations (4 pages of black dots, CMYK). From this the printing company would make his four plates. Today I email a file of the separations to the printing company. Wikipedia explains this much better than I can. Just type in CMYK. There are fewer printing companies around these days. I can't afford Adobe.

Yes tiny dots arranged in a pattern. This is used in all three Affinity Workbooks see Pgs. 343, 345 of the Publisher Workbook. All offset printed colors except CMYL & spot are most likely a screen. I can do it in pagemaker; I can do it in Indesign. I'm sure I can do it in Publisher. I just don't know how.

I do some work for offset presses and sometimes apply screens to the artwork. How would I do this in Publisher?