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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).

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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.  

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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…

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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.

 

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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

checkspotcolours1.thumb.jpg.857178bd52d2e60416122cf7280fe8e0.jpg

checkspotcolours2.thumb.jpg.7d9915e895ee07fe7181fbf390670060.jpg

macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1

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