anh_ngoc Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anh_ngoc Posted June 20 Author Share Posted June 20 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werfox Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 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 and v2 running in a Windows 10 Pro VM (4 CPU cores + 8 GB RAM) on Ubuntu Linux (22.04 LTS) | Asrock DeskMini X300 | EIZO S2431W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anh_ngoc Posted June 21 Author Share Posted June 21 thanks werfox, I will have a look for those...🙋♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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