Color: Blue (0,0,255 in RGB) displays as purple, prints to PDF as blue

[Peter Falkenberg Brown]

Hi Folks,

I read the color FAQ, but I'm still stuck. I'm running Affinity Publisher 1.7.3.481 on Win10 Pro, on a Lenovo P51 laptop.

In the old Serif PagePlus, I can assign "blue" (RGB 0,0,255) to some text, and it looks blue on the screen, and prints to a PDF that displays it as blue.

In Publisher, when I make blue text, it looks purplish.

In Document Setup / Color, I'm using RGB/8 and sRGB IEC61966-2.1.

I've tested this in new documents in all three apps: Publisher, Designer, and Photo, and in all of them the blue text is purplish.

In my Win10 Color Management, I'm using the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 device profile.

I would think that if my system was off, the blue would not display as "blue" in a PDF or in Serif PagePlus, so I'm thinking that I'm doing something wrong in the affinity apps, or something else is kaflooey.

Thanks for any help!

Peter Brown

 

[Dan C]

Hi Peter Falkenberg Brown

Sorry to hear you're having trouble, unlike other creative apps, Affinity apps convert colours from document colour profile to screen colour profile, meaning if you have a different profile set against your monitor than you have set in Affinity the app will try to account for this.

Could you please open Edit>Preferences>Colour and provide a screenshot of your settings here?

Can you also please double check the following post to confirm these are the settings you have in Windows?

Many thanks in advance!

[Peter Falkenberg Brown]

Hi Dan,

Your link to the other article was the solution. The Windows color settings did not have the sRGB profile as the default. When I added that, and restarted Affinity Pub, the color was correct. Here are two screen shots, below.

Thank you for your help!!! I learn something every day. :-)

Peter

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Pub Settings:

Win10 Monitor Color settings: