dasigna
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... the original question seemed to be:
"What's the best way to work with a photographic image that will need to be printed at 3m wide when I'm starting out with a jpg at around 3000px wide?"
apart from resolution needs or related, i quite dont understand what the OP asks for... 'the best way to work with' may also vary heavily depending on cirumstances, needs or habits ... so i dont know what the answer might be in this case ... the best way, well, it depends. :)
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... hmmm. no disrespect intended in any way - but that somewhat sounds like the absence of quite basic knowledge...?
as it may lead to far to start from scratch, my advice would be to read something about this - googles your friend (or so they say).
for now:
pixel or points are 'simply' the units you choose for your work... for pixels on screens i would use 'pixels' as well when designing. basically logic. ;)
dpi (or 'dots per inch') defines the resolution of your artwork. youre facing this again when it comes to 'retina'-displays... which was a question in another post of yours, no?
hope this will give you some starting point.
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@Willabong - I guess PDF's can easily be redistributed and your suggested workaround is fair, but logging into a separate site to quickly look something up might prove more cumbersome than opening a book.
+1 to this.
books as pdf or for readers are highly overrated :)
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news to this...
as the weather wasnt really great this weekend i did spend a 'litte' time on this issue in the warmth of the office.
with no real success - and for some time honestly completely doubted to all my knowledge on colour-management and how to set up things the right way ...
then gave up trying and did the following, as new profiling had to be done anyway within the next one or two weeks:
- deleted all assigned profiles within programs and os
- did a factory reset of both monitors
- calibrated them from scratch (three times each, to ensure consistent results/two hours only to this one)
- assigned the new monitor profiles within os
- assigned all profiles anew within all programs accordingly.
- did a complete reboot and started all programs one after another with a .pdf solely buildt for testing with several cmyk-targets.
after that, all programs showed no recognizable change in colors and behaved as before... but: tadaaa - affinity suddenly also worked as expected!
one might start some discussion now, about how close the screens are to printed targets (at all), but at last theres some good starting point to really dig into the affinitys!
i really dont know what went wrong the time installing affinity and not showing correct colors even the nearest. so i might only guess that affinity at first did not recognize something quite right according to color-settings...? only possibility to me, because there wasnt any change - not in calibration nor in colour-settings or deployed profiles within all programs, and also as before there wasnt any faulty setting anywhere.
so as this leaves me me still with some astonishment, it seems to be working as expected/intended for now (*knock on wood*).
thanks to TonyB and everybody who tried to help.
have to consider this as solved without knowing why ... :blink: -
reclico might be right with this, but to me it also seems to be more sort of a font thing...
in properties of your .pdf there are several embedded fonts - it might be worth checking out which of them is probably not on your machine (if so). other thought is that theres maybe some different language or language-code settings (had this one before - not with bullets, but caused similar issues).
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I have no idea how relevant it is but possibly the ISO Coated v2 300%“ (ECI) forum topic from last May might be worth checking out.
thanks, but the thread is about cmyk profiles, profiling and conversion (when or how) in general - not about problems with displaying them within applications ...
all right there but my problem is actually slightly different.
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I don't have the ISO COATED V2(IEC) profile but using FOGRA27 is giving me the colours I would expect.
If you could post you colour profile and a design where the colours don't look right then I will have a look.
you can download the profile from here if you want to try (half way down the page, the 'old' ones - eci_offset_2009 package), i am not on my working machine right now.
but the fogra profiles wont give me no correct colors eighter ... regardless of design or specific color - all of them are far too vibrant.
but may i ask again?
in which way exactly does affinity handle profiles? any differences towards PS, AI, ID or CDR???
and what about that 'rgbu'-thing precisely???
thanks in advance.
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its been solved.
1:1 meant physical. e.g. for print dimensions.
but that referred to AD from my point of view.
on photo its of course quite different according to dpi etc. you are right.
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strg+8 on windows, or 100% - you are right.
tried it a few days ago and it did not match... now it does :huh: ! weird.
sorry, forget about that.
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... 1:1 or fit-to-window button. ...
would like this also if 1:1 would meant to be 1:1 in 'real live'. 100% obviously doesnt mean this.
other programs sometimes had an option to tweak this according to real measures - e.g. 100mm paper -> 100mm on screen.
thats what i mean if it would be 1:1.
imho useful at last in AD.
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@ MikeW... 'batch convert an entire folder' - that sounds great and (really) thanks for your kind idea! theres only one tiny little problem: files are sorted related to clients & projects and within per date and item. sounds weird maybe, but thats how it is - and i even wont count folders!!! B)
so as long as theres not direct filter, i fear i have to treat the files as needed... sad but true. but first have see what else is going on with AD before really digging into this.
@F_Kal... hopefully this will be the case.
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CorelDraw's AI export doesn't include a PDF portion, that's why they will not import into AD. CD's EPS files do come in nicely, though.
Mike
yes. but honestly, that (eps) doesnt make things much better here, as there are eighter .ai-exports which were never processed in AI (because used somewhere else) or native CDRs. none of those can be read directly from AD. eighter way - they have to be processed one more time before usable in AD, which is as annoying as time consuming ...
regarding the pdf portion from CDR as AI export - that sums up my thoughts (fears).
would be definitely a great thing if affinity could implement a CDR-filter! :)
(btw that was originally the main -or at least a big- reason starting to use CDR long ago - they had plenty of import/export filters from the beginning and they worked great ever since)
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... nearly regarded this thread already dead.
I got here because I'm keeping an eye on all color management topics in the forum. The technical issues raised by @dasigna are valid, and me among others would love some feedback by the Affinity team; the thread has trailed off however and I doubt anybody would be interested in reading through all that (my comment has sadly added to the bulk)
@dasigna, I suggest that for everybody's benefit you report the CMYK rendering issues you are facing in the bugs section of the forum; same for the problem with the corel ai files - a separate thread for each problem would be the best way to address these since they are not related - I'm sure the team would be interested to know that there are things broken (plus that you get the satisfaction that you are working with the team)!
Also, [here]'s a thread in the feature requests section that discusses why 16-bit CMYK was not implemented - You may wish to reopen the discussion (hmm, I'm not sure if reopening it or creating a new feature request is the better approach - somebody more experienced may wish to comment on that) and add your voice to why it's useful having it.
And of course, I'd make a new thread in the Features Requests section for every feature that I wish to see implemented (eg. "soft-rip and printing without profile") !
Hope this helps!
theres already a newer thread assigned to the cmyk-thing here, but there arent many with the same problem as it seems... so it maybe might not be better suited for the bugs-section at all? might be i am wrong to this.
i dont really know for now what could be wrong with this, and any feedback regarding the way affinity might or might not handle profiles other than the rest could be helpful - but there rarely arent any so far ...
but if theres any chance to get better feedback when posting several threads i may think over that again.
16-bit cymk tiff really might be worth a separate thread, as the reason why this isnt possible with AP would be quite interesting.
FWIW, I had a bunch of old .ai files in a folder, and tried to open them in AD. Only got a black page. Upon inspecting the file contents in an editor, I found that all were exported from Corel Draw 10, which I believe was the last version Illustrator also opened. Also slightly predates Illustrator outputing .pdf.
FWIW? easy: huge archive!
... the issue here maybe seems to be one thing (but couldnt get it verified by now): the .ai's from corel might suffer from sort of correct (or any) .pdf-implementation. have to investigate further on this, because its also the case with .ai's exported from corel up to x7.
thanks for feedback. appreciate this. (at least its not only me :) )
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Photo on the left, line drawing in the middle, painting on the right :)
... sure???
not the other way round? :ph34r:
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... if one can achive this in AD, then you might also be able to do such a project! (maybe not counting time then...) :D
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oh, sorry. forgot that: 'ISO COATED V2 (IEC)' or on occasion the uncoated version.
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yes, of course cmyk/8. theres no other cymk-option isnt it?
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... no hint or clue anybody? really?
... not even for the rgbu-thing?
... or at least something how affinity handles color(management)?
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This is probably something you should discuss with Amazon (as well as here) since they need to know their shipping container for the book is inadequate to protect it from shipping damage.
... jep.
those 'shipping containers' are somewhat... cheap? poor? silly? got my workbook too yesterday, and although it wasnt damaged, the pages are not that plain as they supposed to be - due to temporary local humidity it seems and due to the fact that there wasnt even any foliation around...
but what astonished me too was the fact that it came through amazon, as i ordered 'direcly' from serif.
but the book itself is great as well as the content. lets see how long it lasts in use. only thing i dont like that much is the somewhat glossy paper.
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... what does 'check it for lasercutting' mean???
a little description of your workflow might help to help, also which format you want to send for cutting maybe ...
16bit cymk support
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dont know if or how often this one may be asked for already (search is empty on this)...
i really need to have 16bit CYMK tif support for images in both design and photo.
should be possible soon - shouldnt it?
cant imagine any reason why this isnt already there and be able to edit/use existing tifs wich 16bit cymk color space.
quite annoying and makes it impossible to use affinity for eyery case i have to deal with them.
please!