TanyaT Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 I was wondering if there is a way to check the colour like Output Separation Preview from InDesign. It seems in Designer's Preflight, it just indicates many other issues but I never see anything for colour. I did a test with one of my client's project which is grayscale and one spot colour. I need to verify that all of attached images, vector file, fonts etc are 100% Black or a spot colour and not a CMYK (rich black). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted October 18, 2021 Staff Share Posted October 18, 2021 Hi @TanyaTand Welcome to the Forums, None of the Affinity apps currently have a way to Preview colour separations. So you would need to use a 3rd party for this type of work. We have had a number of requests to add colour separations preview and other colour checking tools, so this might come in a future build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TanyaT Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 Thanks. That would be great if this can be added to Affinity. I am looking for a 3rd party for colour separation (for Mac) - any recommendations? commaimagination 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunhilda Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 On 10/26/2021 at 8:49 PM, TanyaT said: Thanks. That would be great if this can be added to Affinity. I am looking for a 3rd party for colour separation (for Mac) - any recommendations? Please! I am suffering when checking colors before printing. Sometimes I do an error and leave CMYK color instead of Pantone, because it is basicslly not possible to figure out 😭😭😭 I used Adobe for preflight checks, but it is annoying to pay a licence just for that… commaimagination 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken S Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Hi, is Affinity any closer to having a facility to preview colour separations in a similar way to Adobe Acrobat. Maybe an add-on that I could download? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 5 hours ago, Ken S said: Hi, is Affinity any closer to having a facility to preview colour separations in a similar way to Adobe Acrobat. Maybe an add-on that I could download? For general color separation you can use this workaround. however, it cannot help for spot colors. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 Another workaround to check colours (cmyk, rgb, spot) would be to open the exported PDF in Affinity. It will not display the swatches (nor have a document palette of global colours) but it shows the colour values respectively the spot colour names in the Colours panel. Try this: v1105 spot x-4.pdf Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken S Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 Thank you, yes, that works fine for what I need. Cheers, Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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