RobertM Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 I'm preparing a photo album in Affinity Publisher.The book includes cmyk photos with grey scale subtitles below on each page. The document has a cmyk colour profile. I' m exporting to pdf "for print" option, seting the colour "as document" and seting the text "convert to courves". But finally both pictures and the text remain in cmyk and printing house cannot accept this. Please help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Hi and welcome to the forums, First you should change your User Name to something other than your email address so as to avoid spam. Make a Document Palette in the Swatches panel and then make a 100% Black colour swatch for your text and a variation of black only for the grey captions (if you want grey, not black) should look like cmyk 0, 0, 0, 100. and cmyk 0, 0, 0, 88. (for darkish grey) Otherwise you'll have text as 'Rich Black' which is a mixture of CMYK colours suitable for home colour inkjet printers. Other people will probably chime in with more and better information. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertM Posted September 15, 2020 Author Share Posted September 15, 2020 Hi, Thank you for your answer. I had grey scale but have a problem with export to pdf. In publisher text is gray but after export to pdf, text is cmyk gray. Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ETC Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 This thread seems relevant to what I asked here (I hope this isn't cross-posting, but I didn't see this question when I posted my question): Quote ETC: I have another issue with colors. I sent a preliminary PDF to the printshop for advice. They responded saying that the black color used for text need to be changed to "K", not left as "CMYK". I would have thought the text was in RGB, since I think that's what AfPub defaulted to. And, when I printed a page of the calendar to a color laser printer, I see that the black text in the monthly quotation did not come through as real black. It seems there is overprint – perhaps the background on which it is superimposed is changing the black to non-black. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertM Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 Hi, Thank you. I solved the problem. I set in text colour settings - c, m and y on 0 % and k on 75 %. Regards Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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