Eric DJ Posted February 25 Posted February 25 Hello everyone ! We are books publishers and produce our own covers using Affinity Publisher for 6+ years. Unfortunately, we just have met our first big issue with a picture that was printed too dark. The printer guy told us that the cumulative CMYK colorimetry was greater than 300%, which is certainly true, but all the tools we used to check that (Krita and Scribus for instance) returned a lower value. In parallel, we have tried to export the cover using 2 different ICC profiles (Uncoated FOGRA29 (too dark) and Coated FOGRA39 (much better)). The issue is that we do not know how to check if the colorimetry is correct, as we do not even know how to verify this with the original cover. I have not found how to get the CMYK percentages, globally or per channel. Of course, we would not jump for joy if we had to subscribe to a very expensive Adobe add-on... Each and every advices will be warm-welcome ! Many thanks by advanced. B.R. Eric DJ Quote
loukash Posted February 25 Posted February 25 The most usable option so far appears to be Packzview: https://hybridsoftware.com/store/packzview It's essentially free to use but they are rather picky with giving access to it. I only got a license on a second request attempt… Other than that, my more usable "alternative" is the old Acrobat Pro X which still runs on my old MacBook that I can easily access via Screen Sharing, or Acrobat X running in emulation via UTM https://mac.getutm.app which is slow but at least local. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2
Eric DJ Posted February 25 Author Posted February 25 1 hour ago, loukash said: The most usable option so far appears to be Packzview: https://hybridsoftware.com/store/packzview It's essentially free to use but they are rather picky with giving access to it. I only got a license on a second request attempt… Other than that, my more usable "alternative" is the old Acrobat Pro X which still runs on my old MacBook that I can easily access via Screen Sharing, or Acrobat X running in emulation via UTM https://mac.getutm.app which is slow but at least local. Many thanks, @loukash! I will check Packzview 🫡 Thanks again. Eric D. J. loukash 1 Quote
RM f/g Posted February 25 Posted February 25 If you have Photo installed, you can switch to the Photo persona in Publisher and open the Info panel. It gives you the ink values under the cursor. In Photo persona you also have the Channels panel, which a allows you to show or hide separate ink channels. Quote Macbook Pro mid 2015, 16 GB, double barrel: MacOS Mojave + Affinity 1 (+ Adobe’s CS6)/ MacOS Monterey + Affinity 2
NotMyFault Posted February 25 Posted February 25 Still possible in any Affinity App Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
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