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Hello, I just want to add me to the crowd that's pointing at this annoying bug. I just bought Affinity edges brushes to discover none of them works for squares or any closed shape as they should. The brush tool definitely needs more love and features. I would love to see vector shape brushes as well - I dislike the png-workaround - pixel based brushes in a vector environment is just not the real thing. I reinstalled Illustrator for brush work now - actually hoped to got rid of AI for good - but real vector brushes offer so much more opportunities. So to fix this bug would not just be a fix - it can also be accompanied by a whole new bunch of brush features. Just my two cents, thanks for reading.

Thanks again @thomaso and @lacerto for your valuable input! When starting this thread I did not have the idea this will change my whole process of color management and I am sooo happy I asked! I just did not have the idea to put media unconverted as is into my publisher document and care about converting as last step before exporting for the printing company. This idea makes so much sense now that you gave it to me - thank you so much!

Oh wow thomaso, thank you so much for this long answer full of useful information. You gave me some really interesting thoughts for complete new workflows e.g. when to convert what kind of photos - some are just so bad light and shadow quality that they need to be converted by hand into greyscale. But I might just keep standard media as CMYK-tiffs and auto convert or convert close to export for print. Thank you so much for your input, you helped me a lot to sort my thoughts. I am not yet ready for my final decision, but I now feel comfortable having enough information to make one :-). Thanks also for the linked topics. I am surely going to reread this and the linked posts more often. With your and your linked info that greyscale is internally handled as RGB and the idea of converting CMYK media after printing company is chosen I I think I keep CMYK/8 as color format and add my own template color palette including just K-tones. With this I should be well prepared to finalize the finished newspaper to a good result. It will take several weeks to see how this turns out - I bookmarked me this thread and I hope to remember to report the final result! Thank you @Komatös for your fast reply helping me to make my question clearer. Thank you so much @thomaso for your massive input, hints and ideas!

DE: Ich bin schon Deutsch Muttersprachler, doch Infos zu Affinity Publisher über Zeitungsproduktion sind selten, daher bin ich für English, damit die Infos mehr Menschen helfen können. EN: I am German, but information about making newspaper with Affinity Publisher is rare and I'd like to continue in English so more ppl can make use of these information. Thank you for the very important information that color space describes the project, while color profile is important for the paper! I wasn't fully aware of this (obviously I am a non professionell on this field). We print on ink absorbing standard newspaper paper. I inherited the previous edition as Adobe Indesign file but just the design is important to continue not this file. Because I want to switch to Affinity products I created a new designer template and was just wondering about the CMYK color space of the old document. For now I understand: It does not matter, if my template is CMYK/8 instead of greyscale/8 because CMY can be ignored during export. Why this question about color format is so important to me are the photos and graphics - their conversion is time consuming. And I fear when working with CMYK/8 I might miss that sometimes there are rich CMYK blacks where there should be K-blacks only. So maybe I should turn my question into: From logic I prefer color format greyscale - is there any disadvantage to work with greyscale/8 to prevent rich CMYK blacks? Does CMYK rich blacks not matter at all, because I can convert them during export as pdf to only K blacks? But what about the quality of the pictures - automatic conversion might make them too light or too dark? I prefer going without auto converting processes. Thank you so much, that you share your knowledge!

Yes, of course you are right @komatös that the print shop will know best. But the print shop is changing depending on best offer AFTER I finished the newspaper - what would be the best options from my production point of view for a greyscale news paper? ty

Hello, I am working on a newspaper with greyscale only content printing it in Germany, Europe. I inherrited the previous edition from an Adobe Indesign user and it's color profile is set to CMYK/8 though this newspaper has always been greyscale. Now I wonder if I should switch to greyscale/8 color format with Grey Gamma 2.2 for future editions or are there good reasons to keep it CMYK/8? Who has experience in printing a greyscale newspaper and can advise me the best color format and profile combination for the task, please? edit inspired by answer: I cannot ask printing shop in advance, because they change depending on best offer after I finished the newspaper. Thank you so much!