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Fixed is a start but reflowable would be great

What are the icc profile issues you are referring to? I am using this on a Mac.

Thanks for the comprehensive response. I will investigate what you have drawn attention to and see what I can determine from that. The printing company is very vague about their end. Their only response is that the last magazine printed fine and this one doesn't but will pursue further with them. They claimed they did two runs. One with the previous and another with the new and had made not changes to their configuration. The results were poor for the latest. I had asked the question whether PDF output configuration is saved with a publication or is general in that it uses on any publication what ever the last settings were. I still need to test that further.

I have attached a 2 page spread which is just photos. Every PDF output looks perfect on my display and when it is printed, even text, just not from the printer company. Pages40_41.pdf

I am having a serious issue with the PDF output from Affinity Publisher v2.2. The images all appear too dark and the fonts are fuzzy. This only happens when the printing company prints the publication. I have printed this on my colour inkjet and on a colour laser printer and they turn out as expected...good. I have experimented with numerous settings but the basic profile is using CMYK and Print Ready. The previous publication printed fine and was under V2.1. I have gone through a process of elimination: Checked and compared settings from the last magazine and found them to be the same. Experimented with a number of settings for the PDF output. Tried different CMYK settings Flattened the PDF Compared the PDFs output on the screen and as my display has a P3 colour profile (very accurate display), they not only look perfect but are not the way that they have printed by the printing company. I have not tested this yet but I am wondering of the settings for publications are saved with the file or does it just pick up the settings from the last document edited? Has anyone else come across this issue and if so, how was it resolved?

I asked this same question last year and the response was that it was being considered. I have produced a book with over 400 pages for print in AP only to find out from the author that I need to produce an ePub/MOBI version. It is quite unfortunate that AP still does not have this feature. Its competitors do. I had to convert the PDF into a docx and then import that into QuarkXpress so I can begin to set it up for those electronic versions. Its a major task which also requires checking the entire book as the docx conversion is not always perfect. Calibre can do this but it is not that great with the output.

I have a short term solution for myself. 1. I saved the book again with hyphenation turned off to a PDF (reason is that the conversion in step 2 would break the hyphenated words as is) 2. I loaded the PDF into an old version of Nuance PDF Converter that still runs and converted it to DOCX. Surprisingly it did a good job. 3. I can now load it into any application that can create an ePub or anything else from a DOCX, including QuarkXpress. I hope that Affinity (Serif) hurray the ability to export to different formats soon. I much prefer Publisher to my QuarkXpress (even though QXP is more powerful and even lets me export a file to HTML5, which I use for a magazine I produce)

I just finished editing a book which is 420 pages long. I had started from a Word document but then made the same mistake as others have of editing the document in Publisher and so the source is no longer the same as the prepared and edited version in Publisher. I exported this out as a PDF which is fine for having the book printed but I also want an ePub version and another for Kindle. Unfortunately Publisher does not have any option to export in these formats. This has been asked a number of times as far back as 2018 but those features are still not in the product. I had hoped that importing the book into QuarkXpress would resolve this for me but there are so many anomalies that I may as well start from scratch. It made me think maybe I should have thought of this before I started the project in Publisher.

For batch processing to crop multiple images to the same size, use File/New Batch Job. Instructions can be seen at http://www.millermattson.com/blog/batch-processing-with-affinity-photo/