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THE DOCUMENTCOLOUR SATURATED WHEN CREATED THROUGH PRINT AS PDF


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Dear All,

First of all I want to wish you a happy new year....

Through this forum I need the solution how to solve the document colour to be saturated and too bright when create through Print as PDF, compare document created through Export as PDF Menu, below is the document data:

*Colour Profile: CMYK/8

*Document Profile: US.Web Coated (SWOP) V2

For sample I have created the facing page document with CMYK Colour as follows:

Page 1: C=40, M=9, Y=100, K=0

Page 2: C=23, M=100, Y=100, K=19

Page 3: C=96, M=70, Y=3, K=0

Page 4: C=39, M=83, Y=0, K=0

The Result as follows:

* Create PDF Through Menu Print as PDF Document:

COLOUR SATURATED AND BRIGHTER (LOOK LIKE THE RGB COLOUR).

Print as PDF.jpg

 

*Create PDF Through Menu Export as PDF Document:

Export as PDF.jpg

 

*Create by another Program,  Create PDF through menu Print as Booklet

Create by Another Program through Print as PDF.jpg

As per above result the Document created through Menu tendency to Saturated and brighter, (even the Document Profile and Printer Profile same : US.Web Coated (SWOP) V2 compare to another result.

For further investigation I attached the Publisher Document.

Please help me how to solve the Colour Saturated as I like create the document with the Right Facing Page (The Reason I use this way is for easy sort the document compare with the Left Facing Pages, to create the PDF Document).

Awaiting the advise again.

Thanks & B/regards,

 

 

TEST DOCUEMENT COLOUR.afpub

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At least on Windows, Affinity will (as far as I know) convert your document to RGB to send it to the printer driver, and it will be up to the printer driver to re-convert it to the color format the printer needs. Possibly whatever PDF printer driver you've chosen is maintaining it as RGB?

 

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If I remember correctly, Serif has stated in a response to a similar issue that all Affinity Apps have no control over the actual result in terms of colour when a document is printed using a pdf driver. This is why they encourage you not to use a pdf printer but to use the pdf export. It makes sense to me: How would Affinity know about the internals (and assumptions) of a third party pdf driver?

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Thanks  Walt & VolkerMB,

After made some simulation, finally I got the solution as follows:

When create PDF file through the Print Menu I choose the setting as follows:

*Colour Management: US.Web Coated (SWOP) V2

*Colour Handling : Performed by Printer

*Printer Profile: US.Web Coated (SWOP)V2

* Rendering Intent: Relative Colormetric

So the issue look like I have wrong choosen the The Colour Handling: Performend by App.

as sample below:

*Sample "Colour Handling: Performed by Printer

Colour Handling by Performed by Printer.jpg

 

*Colour Handling: Performed by App

Colour Handling Performed by Application.jpg

TEST COLOR HANDLING BY APPLICATION.pdf TEST COLOR HANDLING BY PRINTER.pdf

As the above result, the critical when create PDF through Print Menu for create a booklet (The Reason why I choose create a PDF through Print Menu is, I want easily sort the document use Right Facing Page, then a document automatic facing sheet with put it in correct pages as a sheet), It's more easy compare when create document by Left Facing Page I must  manually sort a document, for clear information please see the screen shot when I create above sample in Affinity Publisher:

*Short the page number using Right Facing Page

RIGHT FACING PAGE.jpg

The sort number page actually when create as booklet (No.1 & 4 commonly for the cover).

With further information above, my case have solved it.

Thank you.

Best regards,

 

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