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I have a book cover I'm preparing to export to pdf for printing by Lulu Press. I want color space to be sRGB IEC61996-2.1.

In File / Document Setup, under the color tab the color format reads RGB/8 (color profile sRGB IEC61996-2.1). There are two boxes below this information: Assign and Convert. Am I supposed to select Assign or Convert? I can't find any guidance on this.

Later in the Export window for pdf, my five choices for export color space are: "As document", CMYK, RGB, RGBunbounded, and Gray. As I mentioned above, I want color space to be sRGB IEC61996-2.1. Should I leave it "As document", or should I select RGB, or RGBunbounded? What is RGBunbounded?

Your guidance would be appreciated. Thank you.

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53 minutes ago, dwalk said:

In File / Document Setup, under the color tab the color format reads RGB/8 (color profile sRGB IEC61996-2.1). There are two boxes below this information: Assign and Convert. Am I supposed to select Assign or Convert? I can't find any guidance on this.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Those buttons are only relevant if you're changing the color format to a different one.

54 minutes ago, dwalk said:

Later in the Export window for pdf, my five choices for export color space are: "As document", CMYK, RGB, RGBunbounded, and Gray. As I mentioned above, I want color space to be sRGB IEC61996-2.1. Should I leave it "As document", or should I select RGB

If the document setup is what you want, then "As Document" seems most appropriate.

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You're welcome.

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