Names of Colour / Layers / Channels ISSUE ?

[pdussart]

Sir,

In order to produce stickers, in am in touch with a German Publishing company.

In order to get stickers cut around my design, a layer with the compulsory name "Cut_KC" must be created. I will be the path for the machines to cut around the design.
The VolltonFarbe / Solid colour must be also called "Cut_KC"

It seems that Affinity Photo (latest production version on Windows) gets rid of the underscore.

So my PDF files are rejected by the printing company. It costs 80 EUR to ask this supplier to fix the problem,.....

It seems that the Colour Channels are not properly named (no underscore)  This might be the naming issue in the file generated by Affinity ?

Please advise

See attachments

Regards, Philippe

Colour_name_bug.afphoto Colour_name_bug_message.afphoto

[Joachim_L]

For me it works. See image. Maybe I am wrong, but the areas of the spot colour (Sonderfarbe) have to be vector not pixel. You can do this with the pen tool. Or if you have ADesigner too, switch to ADesigner in APhoto and do it with a vector brush tool. At this point I am stuck. Is it possible to convert a selection to a shape?

[pdussart]

Joachim,

Thank you. My  layer name and the colour name are OK, with the _ underscore.

But the channel name not (see the screen pictures). I have checked and rechecked my design and still get the problem with the automatic tool of the printing company. I will check with their staff,probably at cost.

Regards, Philippe

[Joachim_L]

Your CUT_KC is a pixel layer not a vector layer which is the problem here in my opinion. If not we have to see the afphoto file. 

[carl123]

On 2/21/2020 at 8:44 AM, pdussart said:

It seems that the Colour Channels are not properly named (no underscore) 

If you use 2 underscores in the layer name the Colour Channels will then "correctly" show 1 underscore.

Not sure if that is of any use or if you can devise a workaround via the above method in what you want to do.