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Brilliant choice, Affinity Publisher!

LITERALLY impossible to force ink to be black only. Do you think this will make people use your shitty software instead of the almost-as-shitty InDesign?

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51 minutes ago, js8 said:

LITERALLY impossible to force ink to be black only.

If you clear the ‘Embed profiles’ checkbox in the Export dialog, you should find that PDF export retains black as K100.

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1 hour ago, Alfred said:

If you clear the ‘Embed profiles’ checkbox in the Export dialog, you should find that PDF export retains black as K100.

No it doesn't. Just tried. The "convert image colour profiles" checkbox is also unticked.

No other software does this. I've fixed the text now (the fill was NOT in the colour tab, because that would be logical). But any image, even if I convert it beforehand in Photoshop to 100% K, will be converted to use colored inks. This is a nightmare.

To send to the printers, I have to have an ICC profile embedded, by the way.

Edit: Using the images as psd works somewhat. It still leaves like 5% cyan, which is stupid, but at least it's not trying to convert them anymore.

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Some screenshots would help. And a sample .afpub document.

Text should be fine if you make sure you are using a 0/0/0/100 color for it from the start. It's too easy to find and use the wrong black, and that should be improved in the applications.

For images: if you're talking about black & white images, look for a K-only button on the Context Toolbar.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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Are you using 0 0 0 100 cmyk colour in an RGB affinity document? That is the only thing I can think of that would be causing this to happen.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Some screenshots would help. And a sample .afpub document.

Text should be fine if you make sure you are using a 0/0/0/100 color for it from the start. It's too easy to find and use the wrong black, and that should be improved in the applications.

For images: if you're talking about black & white images, look for a K-only button on the Context Toolbar.

K-only button? What's that? What's the context toolbar?

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On 7/26/2021 at 12:28 PM, js8 said:

K-only button? What's that? What's the context toolbar?

I've highlighted the K-only button on the Context Toolbar here:

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And here is the result of clicking it:

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That image will use only the K ink in a CMYK document.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4

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