lvl99 Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 I'm unsure if I'm using Designer properly (and it would be frustrating if it's not as intuitive as I thought) but I'm trying to get overprint to happen in my document. I've added my colours as global and checked the overprint option. I export to a PDF and then print it and none of the overprinted colours are actually being overprinted. Is there also a way to preview the overprint in Designer? Aside from manually setting layer blend mode to something like "multiply" (cheap & not-accurate trick). JohaWeber 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted June 9, 2017 Staff Share Posted June 9, 2017 Hi lvl99, Sounds like you've done everything correctly. Can you share your .afdesign file so i can take a look and see what the problem could be. I've created you a Dropbox link here to upload the file to We currently have no way of previewing the overprint within Designer but it has been requested a number of times and has also been logged with the Dev team. *Edit* Just found this post by Chris_K with some good tips on getting Overprint to work: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/18910-overprint-doesnt-seem-to-do-anything/?p=87742 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohaWeber Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 I don't get why a color has to be "logged" as global just to get overprint to work. Why not just an overprint-option per stroke and fill? Also the lack of a overprint-preview makes the process of designing pretty tough with all that exporting and checking in a different software (acrobat). lvl99 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian81 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Hi, are there any news on the overprint question? I downloaded the trial version (2018) and when i export a pdf the overprint is not there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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