SillyWalk Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 My suggestions for preflight presets: Overprint Overprint applied to White colour It would be very nice to have a possibility: Menu / View / Overprint preview of document Colours Colour spaces not allowed (possibilty to chose which colour space is/isn't ok for current document) Document contains spot colours (list of them) Resolution Separate resolution control for 1 bit B&W bitmaps that require a different resolution (800–1200 dpi) than 8 bit Grayscale + RGB/CMYK bitmaps (300–340 dpi) Fonts & Styles Font missing Glyph missing Paragraph and Character style overrides 000, Seneca, woefi and 1 other 4 iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74)
fde101 Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 32 minutes ago, SillyWalk said: Document contains spot colours (list of them) Add to that: Document contains non-spot colors Johannes 1
walt.farrell Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Jens Krebs said: Text overflow What would that Preset have? Just Text Overflow enabled, and everything else disabled? -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
walt.farrell Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 3 hours ago, SillyWalk said: Resolution Separate resolution control for 1 bit B&W bitmaps that require a different resolution (800–1200 dpi) than 8 bit Grayscale + RGB/CMYK bitmaps (300–340 dpi) As 1 bit B&W bitmaps are not supported today, I'm not sure I understand this one. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
fde101 Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 Tossing this one out there for discussion: poor contrast (luma or chroma) between overlapping vector objects, optionally accounting for various forms of colorblindness? walt.farrell 1
000 Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 29 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: What would that Preset have? It would show what pages and which frames text contain more text than fits in the frame.
walt.farrell Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 27 minutes ago, Jens Krebs said: It would show what pages and which frames text contain more text than fits in the frame. But the Preflight checks already include that capability. So you're asking for a Preset that only checks for that situation, and nothing else? 000 1 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
mac_heibu Posted December 14, 2019 Posted December 14, 2019 If we get more presets, at some point it certainly will be necessary to have preflight categories like images, text, fonts, document, … 000 and Johannes 2
walt.farrell Posted December 14, 2019 Posted December 14, 2019 1 minute ago, mac_heibu said: If we get more presets, at some point it certainly will be necessary to have preflight categories like images, text, fonts, document, … True, but I'm not sure we need Serif to provide a complex set of Presets. I think it's more important for them to provide the checks, and a small set of Presets. Individual users can create their own to fit their unique situations. Murfee and fde101 2 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
fde101 Posted December 14, 2019 Posted December 14, 2019 If Serif does choose to provide preset presets for the preflight panel, I think it would be best if they would stick with presets that fit well-defined standards in the print industry rather than cater to all of the oddball requirements that individual users are likely to come up with. If the presets can be imported/exported, then print shops could provide presets matching their requirements so their users could download them and add them to Publisher if they want to. 6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: I think it's more important for them to provide the checks, and a small set of Presets. Individual users can create their own to fit their unique situations. Agreed 100%. walt.farrell, SillyWalk, Murfee and 1 other 4
nwhit Posted December 14, 2019 Posted December 14, 2019 Thank you for adding this! Even in this early form, it's great to have! Agree it might be nice to have groups/categories, plus the ability to run a group/category check. -------------------- New: 2023 Mac Studio M2 MAX 12-Core CPU/38-Core GPU 64GB Memory • 5k Studio Display • Sonoma Prev: 2020 iMac 27 i7 (5k Rez), 72GB, AMD Radeon Pro 5700XT 16GB • Sonoma MacBook Pro, 13", M1 2020 • 16 GB • macOS Sonoma iPad Air 2022
Johannes Posted December 18, 2019 Posted December 18, 2019 THANK YOU for the PREFLIGHT here is my wishlist on checks and more Prepress Wishlist in addition to the existing checks above mentioned by other usersChecks in Preflight live/export Total ink coverage is above n % Empty pages Different page sizes Black/grey text doesn't overprint and is smaller than n Black font consists of multiple colors Object uses transparency Checks in Preflight AFTER export on the exported PDF file all checks would be very ensuring for production especially following PDF/X conformity for PDF/X-1a PDF/X4 etc PDF standards PDF 1.3, 1.4, etc Font is not embedded Courier is used within trim box (because was replaced on export due to missing font) Total ink coverage is above n % Black font consists of multiple colors Object uses transparency Views Overprinting preview Total ink coverage warning view paper simulation for soft proof adjustment(?) (should work on all pages at once) Right now I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro every day for alle the above mentioned and more checks.In general Affinity PDFs show less issues than InDesign PDFs but most issues are user generated. woefi, SillyWalk and 000 3 Advertising designer - Austria — Photo - Publisher - Designer — CS6 d&wP — Mac Pro 5,1 (4,1 2009) 48GB 2x X5690 - RX580 - 970EVO - OS X 10.14.6 - NEC2690wuxi2 - CD20"— iPad Pro 12.9" gen1 128 GB - Pencil
Johannes Posted December 18, 2019 Posted December 18, 2019 33 minutes ago, Johannes said: Views color seperation view/preview would also be nice woefi and 000 2 Advertising designer - Austria — Photo - Publisher - Designer — CS6 d&wP — Mac Pro 5,1 (4,1 2009) 48GB 2x X5690 - RX580 - 970EVO - OS X 10.14.6 - NEC2690wuxi2 - CD20"— iPad Pro 12.9" gen1 128 GB - Pencil
fde101 Posted December 18, 2019 Posted December 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Johannes said: Empty pages Hmm... if a page contains only a plain white rectangle, the same color as the paper, then is it still empty? 1 hour ago, Johannes said: Checks in Preflight AFTER export The preflight panel in Publisher is strictly pre-export at this time and there is no indication that this is likely to change... can't say for sure, but I would not expect this. However, some of these checks might be relevant once PDF "pass-through" is supported, to validate the PDFs that are embedded within the document? 1 hour ago, Johannes said: Font is not embedded I suspect "font cannot be embedded" would be a more generically appropriate check, in case the permissions in a font that was used forbid embedding it?
SillyWalk Posted December 18, 2019 Author Posted December 18, 2019 4 hours ago, Johannes said: color separation view/preview would also be nice Overprinting preview Total ink coverage warning view paper simulation for soft proof adjustment(?) (should work on all pages at once) Hell Yeah! Johannes 1 iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74)
Staff Patrick Connor Posted April 17, 2020 Staff Posted April 17, 2020 This thread is locked. If any of these suggestions made in the beta forum are still outstanding in 1.8.3 please post them in the suggestions forum. Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon
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