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Just starting with Photo 2 and Canon Pro 200 printer and want to use "Professional Print and Layout", their soft-proofer for monitor matching.  Was published a couple years ago as free-standing and plug-in for photoshop, but afaics no plug in w/ Affinity as yet. Welcome. any comments or suggestions.
 

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Hi @Persister and welcome to the forums.

Complain to Canon that they should develop a plug-in compatible with Affinity Photo.

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3 hours ago, Komatös said:

Complain to Canon that they should develop a plug-in compatible with Affinity Photo.

Is the existing plug-in one of the kinds that Affinity even supports? Unless it is a standard .8bf image plugin complaining to Canon won't do any good.

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I strongly assume that Canon uses functions or routines (entry points) that only exist in Photoshop.

That would also be nothing new. Because with the color calibration systems I know, the connection via plug-ins also only works with Photoshop. 

But I'm happy to be proven wrong here too.

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10 hours ago, Persister said:

Just starting with Photo 2 and Canon Pro 200 printer and want to use "Professional Print and Layout", their soft-proofer for monitor matching.  Was published a couple years ago as free-standing and plug-in for photoshop, but afaics no plug in w/ Affinity as yet. Welcome. any comments or suggestions.
 

Well that Canon software is, as a plugin, mainly done for the common Adobe products like LR, PS/PSE and for Canon's own DPP. So I highly doubt that there are chances to reuse it as a plugin in APh here due to it's limited (stripped down) plugin-interface compatibility.

So you would have to use Canon PPL and things like "Canon Print Studio Pro" on it's own, or as plugins out of Canon's own DPP software, if you don't have/use Adobe LR, PS/PSE.

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