Trapping, Knockout, Overprint and Separation-Preview

[smg]

Are Trapping, Knockout, Overprint and Separation-Preview on the way?

For a professional work is really necessary to have the possibility to see a preview of each color separation and color combination, of CMYK and Spot color, correctly show on the screen.

Thank you

[fde101]

Overprint is already available.  Create a global color swatch representing the color you want to overprint then right-click on the swatch and enable the Overprint option.  Apply that swatch to whatever objects you want to use overprint on.

[werfox]

On 11/26/2024 at 12:50 PM, fde101 said:

Overprint is already available.

I think @smg meant a preview for overprint, which, among the other things mentioned, the Affinity applications still lack.

I would also like to see a separation and overprint preview, but as for trapping: it should be left for pre-press software and pre-press specialists – except in rare cases when manual trapping might be necessary (screen printing or foil cutting coming into my mind). But even for those cases a proper overprint preview would be sufficient.

The trick with the channels panel available in Photo persona that can be used as a simple separation control is not a real solution, even if it works for documents without spot colours and overprinting elements.

[smg]

On 11/30/2024 at 8:33 PM, werfox said:

I think @smg meant a preview for overprint, which, among the other things mentioned, the Affinity applications still lack.

I would also like to see a separation and overprint preview, but as for trapping: it should be left for pre-press software and pre-press specialists – except in rare cases when manual trapping might be necessary (screen printing or foil cutting coming into my mind). But even for those cases a proper overprint preview would be sufficient.

The trick with the channels panel available in Photo persona that can be used as a simple separation control is not a real solution, even if it works for documents without spot colours and overprinting elements.

Yeeesss, correct!