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Garry, Kyr, Old Bruce. I did say I was stupid. Thank you. I missed point three but still would not have understood it and would still have posted the question....😜 By the way Kyr, I am using, and embarrassed to say, that over-bloted disorganised shopping mall product called microsoft.

Hi Thomaso, I agree with you in principle but that backstroke key is way off to the right on ,y keyboard next to the number 7, I never go there. Besides the image dissappearing only happens when I place and then reduce in size via the measurement panel and that is all. So nothing accidently pressed I am sorry to say.

Am I stupid? Don't answer. Trying to insert a LOT of inch symbols. Double clicking the glyh is fine, copy glyph and keep pasting no problem. But stubborn old me wants to do this without relying on the copy paste method from the clipboard. Enter the good old Affinity Instructions: To insert glyphs/Unicode characters directly using Hex code: Click for an insertion point in the text. Do one of the following: For a glyph: Type 'G+' then enter the Hex code, e.g. '02F5' or '2F5'. For a Unicode character: Type 'U+' then the Hex code, e.g. '0040', '040' or '40'. So what does my text look like? A4 = 8.3 x 11"g+0004 Yes Yes I have tried all sorts of combinations, even the ridiculous internet suggestions of which there are many, Alt + 0148, 0022 Alt + X all usless, they do not work. But I am stupid and can not interpret affinity's instructions.

Hi Walt, no I am not a shorcut man, except in a car! I never use shortcuts to be honest. No, what is hppening here is simple, I place an image, resize it, it falls off the page and unless I select that image box straight away before doing anything else (the image can not be seen at all), it is lost into space, unless of course I go to Resources and ask to locate. Then the frame apears but not the image inside. Anyway this is all fine really, it was only a pain while I was inserting 60 or more images into a document. Have a nice day Walt.

Ok that's odd, I had clip to canvas off, for months. I did go to this but still my stuff went magically missing. Nevermind, thank you both. I moved images outside and they now show. But they have not been showing for days now. mostly when I place an image, use the manual mm size dialogue box to set dimensions, then they dissappear off the page into spock's universe. That's ok. This is not a great disaster.

Ok, this has been annoying me for a whole week and I have gone through the menus a dozen times. the preferences, sought out the help and now I have to post! Question: Sometimes my stuff is falling outside the page, into the black area. I drag a huge 10 mile square selection box to grab whatever might be there, but it is Never ever selected, I lose it completely and I have to reverse the history and redo whatever moment I need to. I know there is a setting somewhere, where one sees everything that is outside the page. But in good old affinity fashion, this option is not where it is supposed to be. Where is it please?

Don't misunderstand me I know the differences, I do neither, ever, for export, because all things are prepared exactly as I want them, so I do not want a third operator or software to mess with them. My simple question from the beginning was - does publisher affect output resolution to pdf, that answer as I understand things is No, it does not. Unless you tell the pdf to downsample. (leaving colour aside this is). The only reason I am gtting to grips with PDF is because I have always been used to sending stuff as TIFF or PSD or JPEG, never in a pdf. So now I have to make sure I understand how things work here.

So the conclusion is, colour aside, that affinity publisher's 300 dpi constraints have absolutely no effect at all on exporting a 600 ppi image to pdf with compression off. In a twisted manner of seeing things, the document resolution is sort of a virtual reality thing to put it so crudely. After all, if all your images are at whatever resolutions and you export them to pdf with compression off then that is what matters.

My knowledge here is obviously needing a boost. I have some black and white images where I need them to stay at the PPI I have set in Apple mac Photoshop. I bring them over to my windows affinity publisher and my publisher has to be at 300 ppi because most of my other images are at that resolution. That is good. However my 600 ppi B/W images will be reduced to 300 ppi in pubisher. Question: when I export to pdf for sending away, so long as the pdf's downsampling is OFF then will the individual image resolutions (240, 300, 360, 600 is what I have) of my images be Honoured DESPITE or in spite of Publisher's 300 PPI setting? If I can clear this up then all is well. Unfortunately the technicalities are hard to digest so if the answer is hidden aove somewhere sorry, I missed it. Thank you.

I can not find out how to set quotation marks outside the paragraph instead of them being seen as a character and part of the paragraph, especially unsitely in Justified text.

My whole understanding about this is quite simple, though I have to entertain the thought that I may be wrong, nevertheless here it is, that ALL images that are placed into a document come with their own native resolution. That that should be honoured goes without question. A document does not need a resolution for text, so what else does one need to assign a resolution for to a blank page document? Text has never needed resolution, vector graphics do need a resolution, and photos, raster images all have their resolution already set within themselves. Now this has always been my understanding. So if I do indeed miss something in this logic then that's ok, what have I missed?

Time on my hands, so I thought I might add something - I do not find this irritating at all, but when it happens I do Tut, you know, raise my eyebrows and moan under my tongue. I make my images in photoshop at exactly the same size and resolution that I want them in my Publisher book. Usually 300, but sometimes 360 (which is the perfect resolution for many photos), sometimes I make them at 240 because it reduces file size and the image is just as good at 240 as it would be at 300. Now then, into publisher it goes, and because my publisher is always set at 300 you can guess now why I constantlyTut. I really do not think Publisher should take control, but maybe it is a good thing for some, I don't know.

Jij kunt in het Nederlandse taal schrijven als je wilt. Of ben jij Franse?. Maar harteljk bedankt voor alles Oufti. Alles wordt hulpvol. Klopt, green algae, was mijn mening. Thank you for this link Thomaso. That is great. Thank you for your links and advice. Everything has been helpful.

Scroll about half way down to get straight to the point. Personally I choose according to image sometimes. But that is a photographic perspective. It may be different for Print production for magazines and books. https://colorbase.com/blog-rendering-intents-a-deep-dive/#:~:text=In color management%2C we use,how to deal with colors.

Very grateful for that first piece of useful information. I emailed yesterday for the printer's ink coverage so will get a reply today sometime. Let's see if he matches up. Thanks. As for this question: '' as printers generally don't print Affinity native files but PDF's, applying a correct profile at export should be sufficient… ''' Naturally I knew that, but applying a correct profile at export?? if the images are in RGB of course one is not going to get colour or tonal accuracies to the nth degree. So it needs adjusting. Applying the correct profile - exactly what do you mean here? I supply the PDF as document RGB, uploading the PDF according to whatever specification he asks, he converts. What more is there to understand? There is no such thing as a correct profile, only the one that is asked for. We must be confusing semantics along the road here somewhere. Also, you said: it can include the required checking for 300%, yes I saw that when I proofed in publisher and saw all the green algae cover my nice deep shadows and so on. Hence I need to change that otherwise 10 booklets will be returned to me with lots of ikky muddy splodges.

Thomaso and Oufti, I am sorry, but really, everything you have both said just goes over my head. I have no idea what you are talking about. 1. I know the profile that is required - Fogra 39 2. I know about Proofing in my affinity document and in photoshop 3. Photographers have been reducing ink coverage maually when one asks for total ink coverage for a specific media from the Printer if printing onto magazines and leaflets etc, this prevents unwanted surprises in the blacks and shadows. 4. I know I can adjust the RGB values instead in order to prevent unexpected results from a printer but now I am dealing, not with Photographic paper where colour gamuts are slightly greater than the average magazine or leaflet substrate- I have been doing that for years. All I needed to know is if any Affinity program can do what adobe acrobat and photoshop can do, and now I assume it can not. So I will use Photoshop. But thankyou for your attempts to help.

Is there a method within Affinity whereby I can reduce total CMYK ink coverage? I can do this in my Apple Mac Photoshop but would prefer not to have to change computers and swop out files for this particular task since I have quite some blacks to deal with.

HalloPepgold. I highly thank you for this. I will go through the whole lot with great interest. As a photographer I am well versed in colour management systems and Monitor calibrations. But as a photographer I have never had to deal with CMYK directly since printers just take your PSD or TIFF files and print away and you get good results. But I am now dealing with Printers and books etc, this is a whole new world. Thank you once again.

Thank you for the explanation. I sit corrected.

Sorry Thomaso, this may be clear in your head as you wrote it, I know the dangers in that way of writing, but this is a jumbled mess in my head and I have tried to dissect your explanation without success. Colour Space = ?? Colour Profile = ??

Thank you Walt. I do not trust the Printer's information - I will send iy away as an RGB, after all this is the first time I have ever been asked to convert to CMYK, which makes no sense to me at all. Hi Thomaso, as I said to Walt, I will give all this a miss, -it really is making life overly complicated and I am not used to this. The Printers machines should all be taking documents presented to them as RGB and the machines will always calculate the necessary changes to CMYK. That is how it has always been, so why he requires things differently beats me - I have no time for this. Thank you for your informative link, but it really goes over my head. Too complex for me. I understand colour management very well indeed, but this I will avoid. Thank you Bryce. Though once again I am being bombarded with stuff, I really do not understand this 300% black or what ever, in maths you can not have 300 % it is a mathematical impossibility. 😄 Having said that I am dealing with an RGB document being sent away to a printer, I have never in all my life had to understand manually messing with CMYK or Text not coing out as Black.......🤣 HOWEVER, perhaps some kind person could just explain this please, the help manual says the following: What on earth is this?? Colour Profile and colour Space have always, always, been interchangeable concepts to me and I have never had problems with colour in documents. I now find this? They both say EXACTLY the same thing EXACTLY! Phew... Colour Space—choose whether to use the document's current colour space or export using a selected colour space. Select from the pop-up menu. Profile—choose whether to use the document's current colour profile or export using a specific colour profile. Select from the pop-up menu.

Hallo, This is a twofold question: The first concerns the Two attachments: 1. The BEFORE attachment shows the image before FOGRA39 proof. The AFTER attachment shows with 'Out of Gamut' selected. Question: Does this mean that the black (which are the dark shadows) will print lighter or darker when sent for printing? I never ever had this issue before with shadows. 2. How do I know if my text is 100% black or has been mixed with CMYK? I only ask because this image has normal text on the image. I am told to send text as 100% black, BUT the file must be converted to CMYK??? Never ever done this before, all files have been submitted as RGB to printers. But this printer requests the file be converted to CMYK. I must admit to being both lost and ignorant on this one, what happens then to the text?

Just to re-assure you, though I think perhaps you may already realse this I don' know. I have studied the top 4 self-publishing printers and can say that t does not matter what software you use to create the product, it's how you output that product that is crucial. The only exception I came across that some companies did not like was their note on NOT using microsoft word to output to PDF. (To be expected really). Hope all goes smoothly at KDP.

Hallo Commentator, 1. Flatten? If you click on Rasterize everything, this flattens all. Otherwise just save your Inmge in Photo with a different name via save as, and flatten all layers. 2. Fonts are automatically embedded, see last entry bottom of your screenshot. 3. As far as I am aware, pdf optimize is just another fancy way of saying, compress Jpegs for example. If you have a hundred Tiff files , I would not want to upload them, just save as Jpegs for example. I am doing the same as you, but for another company, and this is what I understand. Personally, unless you use Adobe acrobat which I have done, I would NOT click on any Affinity preset and leave it at that. Click on PDF for Print, NOT PRESS READY unless you are rquired to export as CMYK, which is unusual. Click on pdf for PRINT and change some settings manually that need to be changed. I do not know KDP's requirements so can not help there. But you should UNTICK 'allow jpeg compression', and if your images are at 360 PPI (which is a common photographer's resolution) then untick the DPI and tick 'use document resolution'. The Compatibility, colour space and document profile are set ok, and at the moment this is all I can see.

Because my antiquated dell laptop struggles at times with only 4 GB memory of which 1.9 GB is generally available while Microsoft keeps stealing each week with its non-sensical irritating updates a bit here and a bit more there. Of that 1.9 GB usually only 70% is actually available - and I hear you say why don't you get a new laptop - because Abba's famous words come to me right now. Thanks walt I saw the page. About the enhancements - I can not remember sorry, I would have to go back over all the links and sites to note the details.