Rasterized

I really hoped some years ago this will get a real replacement to cc. But i have admit to myself that 2023 will be a next year fully in CC world. Too many small but important things miss for professional work in Photo & Designer - and Publisher is still years away. Biggest problem here is the somewhat simple PDF export which is not sufficient for delicate jobs.

So - long story short - Affinity is still not able to create and handle 1 Bit Tiffs. Ah, and just for the Serif-crew and others who sometimes mention this format is not relevant anymore: If you send your super duper Layout, created with the most modern and fancy file formats within, packed as an PDF to the printer, every spreadsheet will separated in 4 (if cmyk) b&w images for halftoning. Guess which file format is used to get this transfered to each printing plate? Yes, it's 1Bit TIFF in 1200 or 2400 dpi - according to the imagesetter resolution.... (Better said "TIFF G4" which is a lossless variation for big formats) Some helpful reading i found too: http://businessofillustration.com/save-line-art-1200-dpi-bitmap-tiff-files/

Transparency in the Indesign workflow.

Thank you for your effort, but fde101 is right - this will NOT produce a 1 Bit Bitmap. No offense, but maybe not all understand what's the benefit of this file format really is in (offset)printing. Just in very short words: If you send a PDF to the imagesetter (by now a CTP-machine for almost 100%), your data will be seperated and rasterized. CMYK and Grayscale will be rasterized in around 300 dpi max for each channel. The CTP machine will impose with a max resolution of 1200-2400 dpi. So Vectors and Text (which is a sort of vector) will be imposed at max imagesetter resolution (at least 1200 dpi). Images and rasterized text, Forms etc get 300 dpi. This causes the sharp look of Text / vectors compared to e.g. Text produced in Photoshop etc. If you send a 1200dpi Bitmap picture of lineart to the CTP Machine, it will be imposed as sharp as text or vectors.... That's it. And you need this format, since vector tracing will never achieve the same detailed result. There are always errors.

Ok thank you. I tried it quick. PNG exported as b&w picture, then saved it as b&w tiff in Mac preview. Opened it in Photoshop, it's no Bitmap but plain Grayscale b&w picture. Imported this tiff to indesign. Behaviour is just like its an grayscale tiff. No transparency like it is with a native PS bitmap tiff.... This is a real bummer 😞

loukash, how can i change a grayscale picture to 1 bit or "k only" in affinity photo? And yes, no idea why they don't do this for tiff saving....

Sorry to say, but since the beginning of Serifs efforts to create these products i'm still hoping to use at least two products of you for print producing & graphic design. I'm not complaining on the lack of proper PDF exports in publisher (take your time ), but this absolute simple feature still not implementing in Photo is frustrating.

Yeah, i read this also for v1. But this doesn't help when creating PDfs for the imagesetter 😞

OMG - this is somewhat disillusioning. I really appreciate the effort of serif developing this three applications and been following the company since beginning, but as a serious working graphic designer and print producer, i still only can use Designer for my work as an Illustrator substitute. Really hoped to quit my big CC license in near future and only remain with Indesign on the Adobe universe. But this will be - for print graphics - unfortunately not happen this soon...

Hello! Anybody with good news this feature is finally implemented in Version2?