Preview Panel for Checking Color Separation?

[Mark Oehlschlager]

Is there a Preview Panel in any of the Affinity apps that would allow one to check for correct color separation in documents where spot inks have been used?

[v_kyr]

AFAIK no.

[planetbuck]

Related question, or maybe the same question: When I'm ready to send a document to press, I export to pdf, then I've usually used Acrobat Pro, advanced features, to look at the pdf and see what inks are printing where ... so I can check for wrong overprints, color builds instead of solid blacks, unwanted spot colors, etc. Now that I'm on Mac Catalina and using Affinity, is there any way of doing this within Affinity, without purchasing Acrobat Pro?

[v_kyr]

No Affinity itself to my knowledge doesn't show these things. - On MacOSX the ColorSync tool can load a PDF and show pages via filtered color settings, but I don't know if it is equally accurate as Acrobat Pro here. So somebody from the prepress domain can tell you better if it's trusty or not.

[FredVig]

I'd like be able to see color separation on screen.

Thanks, and great job !