IFPA Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 I applaud Affinity for the improvement of handling PDFs that come from outside our business. We can now place the file and it looks like it is supposed to with no font substitutions if we choose "Pass Through." Great! However, when a PDF is placed, like an ad on a page, and then sent as a PDF to the printer to print the magazine the beautiful single color black is converted to 4 color black, ie black being printed by Cyan, Magenta, Yellow AND Black. I'm importing (placing) the PDF in a CMYK page. Not sure why the type, especially, is changed to 4C Black. Attached is a screenshot of both the original PDF (on the left) and the PDF passed through Publisher (on the right) as viewed in Print Production -> Output Preview in Adobe Acrobat. The original shows type is single color black, the passed through file shows 4C Black. Am I missing something or is this a "Feature?" The printing company won't print my magazine with 4C Black type. It just looks poorly. Thank you 000 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 How infuriating - looks like it could be a profile clash - have you tried switching off embed profiles? Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted January 21, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 21, 2021 Hi @IFPA, I've just done a quick check and when using a single colour black in a PDF it seemed to pass through as expected. Would it be possible for you to upload the afpub and linked pdf you are passing through here, i'll take a look. Thanks 000 1 Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterfri Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 I have the same problem when exporting to pdf x4, when I export with pdf (ready for print studio) it is ok. In indesign exporting to pdf x4 you have the option: colors: convert to target profile (don‘t change cmyk-values). Then real black stays real black 000 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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