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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?


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Affinity Publisher 2.5.1
 

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

test_screen.webp

test_pdf.webp

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What application are you using to view the PDF file?

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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?

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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.

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

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