anh_ngoc Posted June 20, 2024 Posted June 20, 2024 Hello, I am having difficulties with the colors that are displayed in Aff-Publ and those that are to be printed out as a pdf. In the document settings I use CMYK/8 and ISO Coated v2 300% ECI. I have set the color setting (assignment) in Aff-Publisher to CMYK. In the pdf settings I set to PDF/X-4, Color space: as in the document ICC profile: Use document profile And yet the colors in the pdf look different from the colors on the screen. (See attachment) How do I get the colors adjusted? -- Affinity Publisher 2.5.1 Translated with DeepL.com (free version) Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 20, 2024 Posted June 20, 2024 What application are you using to view the PDF file? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
anh_ngoc Posted June 20, 2024 Author Posted June 20, 2024 22 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: What application are you using to view the PDF file? right now as you mentioned it, I checked another pdf-app. I have used until now PDFXchange 2.5 ...This seems to be the culprit. I checked with PDFcreator24 and it looks pretty good. Does that mean I was just annoyed with the wrong reader? *pulling my hair out* 😳 which free pdf viewer would you recommend? Quote
werfox Posted June 21, 2024 Posted June 21, 2024 Hi @anh_ngoc, the only free* PDF viewer that I know of, showing reliably colors, separations, image resolution, PDF boxes (trim box, bleed box and so on) is PACKZVIEW. Available for MS Windows and macOS. * - it can be downloaded for free but you have to request a free licence code to run it. On the other hand there is Adobe Acrobat Reader (also for macOS and Windows), but without all the things relevant for preflight / prepress control (separations etc.). For just a quick look (with somewhat less reliability in color display) could be SumatraPDF (Windows only) and PDF24 (with a big toolbox for checking, organizing, protecting, signing, comparing… but not really editing PDFs). Best regards. anh_ngoc 1 Quote Affinity Publisher | Photo | Designer v1, v2 & v2 public beta running in a Windows 10 Pro VM (4 CPU cores + 8 GB RAM) on Ubuntu Linux (22.04 LTS) | Asrock DeskMini X300 | EIZO S2431W Apologies for any grammatical, syntactical and/or other errors – English is not my mother tongue
anh_ngoc Posted June 21, 2024 Author Posted June 21, 2024 thanks werfox, I will have a look for those...🙋♂️ Quote
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