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Unfortunately Affinity still misses relevant ICC functions and can not be used (fully) professional, when you rely on full ICC color management support. This lack has been made clear by me and others again and again over the years. I took the time to summarize and explain which features are missing. Yet, nobody at Affinity seems to care. When a new major version is released the forum posts go to an archive state, even when they are still relevant, like my post. I am thinking of switching to Photoline, which has color management support, but before doing so I give Affinity a last try if they finally care to get prof. users on to board. Let us know if you will implement full color management support in the (near) future.

Danke Johannes, "but I don't hold my breath"... Von daher spare ich mir die Zeit und warte, ob zu meiner Überraschung doch etwas passiert wäre. Ich bin im Wesentlichen mit Affinity durch. Ich hatte zuviele Probleme, hab' etliches an Zeit verloren die Software für mich nutzbar werden zu lassen und doch ist die S/W teils buggy -- und Updates bekomme ich nun nicht mehr. Ich sehe nicht ein für weitere Beta-Versionen -- das ist für mich die Affinity Suite -- mit zu vielen wichtigen fehlenden Funktionen Geld zu bezahlen. Dann halt weiter die alten Adobe-Lizenzen benutzen. Sicher ist Affinity in Teilen besser als eine alte CSx-Version, aber in wichtigen Punkten leider eben nicht. Als ich mir damals die Mühe gemacht habe genau aufzulisten was und warum im Bereich ICC-Farbmanagement fehlt, hatte ich noch die Hoffnung, oder ist es mehr ein Irrglaube, dass Affinity wirklich versuchen würde ein Alternative zu Adobe aufzubauen.

Has someone already checked the new Affinity suite 2? Do they finally support full ICC colormanagement which Adobe introduced over 20 years ago?

I finally was able to convert the PS to PDF, so the file seems to be at least somehow o.k. / valid. When using ghostscript (ps2pdf) with the parameter -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY it converts fine.

No, I wanted to use it in Designer and convert there to another format.

Problem is still not fixed in latest version... 😞

In the latest Designer version a PS file is shown empty, while an ASCII-editor shows the PS-code fine. bsptast.ps

Thanks I posted indeed accidentally in the wrong section - the post relates to Publisher.

In case the developers are interested to know what is missing in Designer before people can even consider it as an alternative to InDesign: https://redokun.com/blog/desktop-publishing-software Not mentioned in this blog post is the non-complete and cumbersome ICC color management options (see my detailed post about the ICC problems of Affinity) of Affinity products as well the lack of PDF preflight tools.

If / when IDML export and import does not work it will not really bring much benefit to the table, doesn't it? So you suggest that everybody should continue to use Adobe programs then...? Then I do not need an IDML import in Affinity But even when one creates a document in Affinity programs I do need the complete set of colormanagement functions to be able to work reliable with RGB and CMYK colors and do conversions in between when needed (incl. a preview).

Years after the first people mentioning that Affinity needs to fully support colormanagement, when Affinity truly wants to become a solutions for professionals and more than a year later after I posted this message I do not see any progress or even interest in this topic. When I work together with design agencies and ask them for idml-files so I can open those in Affinity they tell me that they do not even know Affinity Photo or Publisher -- let alone would use it. I love many aspects of Affinity programs, but have to use workarounds for cooperating with others and use old Adobe licenses for color critical work or tasks. I'd like to hear if Affinity plans to ever implement the complete set of color-management tools which have been in use since the year 2000! A half-baked soft-proofing option my means of a layer does not cut it!

I am also surprised the bilinear is the default resample export setting. I would almost never use bilinear. Typically I want the best resampling, which is for photo's on the Lanczos-methods. How can I set the default export method to what fits my needs?

Affinity just seems not to be interested in a large portion of the (more) professional market. When I work with others and they want to send me Indesign-files and I say that I use Affinity Publisher they typically have not even heard of it! And for good reason if you ask me. As long as colormanagement is not fully supported this is show-stopper to use it for many commercial applications. A year ago I posted a summary what is needed regarding color management. But most Affinity users do not, neither does Affinity as a company.

Adobe has implemented oklab -- for good reason. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/gradient-interpolation.html Is see no reason why Affinity should not make that relatively small change (the code is not complicated or long at all) to also support that visually better way to pick colors. See the 4 blog posts on the homepage. Here one explaining oklab: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/ And do not forget to finally implement ICC color management more complete (see my relevant posts -- listing the missing parts and why they are needed).

Any updates on the topic?