RJMroz Posted October 26, 2022 Posted October 26, 2022 I am using AD to create cut lines for my Roland BN-20A. I am creating my PDFs in Silhouette Studio and then opening in my browser to check that they are in color. They are. After that, I am opening the PDF in AD and it is coming in in greyscale. I am a new user and not sure if I clicked on something I shouldn't have or that maybe I'm missing a step. Using a Windows laptop running Windows 11. Attaching screenshots of PDF in browser and once imported to AD. Because of this, I'm unable to create a Global Color for my Roland to recognize. Any and all assistance would be fantastic! Quote
Ron P. Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 Welcome to the forums, The warning in the upper-right tells you what Designer done. Apparently you have Greyscale set as your default profile. Just click on the Document Setup, (upper-left), then under Color tab change the Color Format to one of the RGB or CMYK. Quote Affinity Photo 2.5..; Affinity Designer 2.5..; Affinity Publisher 2.5..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD
Dan C Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 Hi @RJMroz, Welcome to the Affinity Forums Can you please open Affinity, then navigate to Edit > Preferences > Colour and provide a screenshot of your settings here for me? Secondly, can you attach a copy of the PDF file you are opening in your screenshots above? Many thanks in advance! Quote
RJMroz Posted October 27, 2022 Author Posted October 27, 2022 Dan C. Here are the screenshots of color preference tab. 1st one is the tab with nothing clicked upon. The 2nd one is what I get when I click on where greyscale is. It doesn't offer any other options. Hope this helps. I'll also attach the PDF I'm attempting to open. We Wear Pink PDF1.pdf Quote
RJMroz Posted October 27, 2022 Author Posted October 27, 2022 Ron P. - Not sure where that is. This is a screen shot of what I have when I open the program. Quote
GarryP Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 21 minutes ago, RJMroz said: Ron P. - Not sure where that is. The thing Ron P. was referring to, unless I’m mistaken, is the pop-up message at the top-right of your second original image. The message tells you that the document didn’t have a colour profile attached to it so Designer gave it one. If you are referring to the Document Setup button on the Context Toolbar then you need a document open to see it. If you have a document open and you can’t see the Context Toolbar then use menu “View → Show Context Toolbar”. Quote
Dan C Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 Many thanks for providing this file and screenshots for me! It appears as though the Affinity app is incorrectly detecting this file as Greyscale, rather than RGB - therefore I'm going to log this PDF file with our developers, to help improve the PDF importer in the future. In the meantime, as Palatino shows above, when importing this PDF you are given an option to set the Colour Space, which defaults to Estimated. Please open this drop-down list and select RGB, then click open. You should hopefully find the document opens in Designer, with the expected colours. I hope this helps Quote
RJMroz Posted October 27, 2022 Author Posted October 27, 2022 Thanks so much gents! Is there a way that I can eliminate this extra step, or will I be doing this all of the time? It seems to occur with each and every PDF I attempt to load. Quote
thomaso Posted October 27, 2022 Posted October 27, 2022 2 hours ago, RJMroz said: Is there a way that I can eliminate this extra step, or will I be doing this all of the time? It seems to occur with each and every PDF I attempt to load. Maybe you have a chance to avoid using grayscale items in the layout application "Silhouette Studio" or at least avoid exporting the grayscale profile in the PDF? The bunch of pattern items in the PDF appear each to have a grayscale profile applied. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
Dan C Posted October 28, 2022 Posted October 28, 2022 22 hours ago, RJMroz said: Is there a way that I can eliminate this extra step, or will I be doing this all of the time? It seems to occur with each and every PDF I attempt to load. As Thomaso has mentioned above, in the meantime you may be able to adjust the way these PDFs are generated before importing into Affinity - but I've logged this as a bug with our developers to improve the PDF importer, hopefully meaning this manual selection isn't required in a future update Quote
RJMroz Posted October 29, 2022 Author Posted October 29, 2022 It is working well. Thanks for all of the help. Have another question, but it is unrelated to this thread, so I'll ask separately. Dan C 1 Quote
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