jocstone Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Hi, overprint preview would be great to see, also possible to see the spot colors saved in psd files. Thisismandatory and Marco.Prolo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobalou Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 I do the same question here. Where is possible to control the overprint colors? I can't find in the app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thisismandatory Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 @Jobalou: When you define a „Global Color“ you can set the „Overprint“ attribute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jocstone Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 You do not always want a color to global overprint, sometimes, you just want one element to overprint, nevertheless what color it is in. Jobalou, Burny, mbuchichio and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 Then define a second color just as you might have done in InDesign: standard black (overprinting) and knock out black. Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jocstone Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 no no no, thats overkill! and not-done in Indesign. I'm talking about all other colors except standard black. What if you have a color swatch 50% black, sometimes you want to knock it out and sometimes you want it to overprint. Making 2 swatches is way to much work, just select the object you want to overprint and set it to overprint in the attributes panel. That's the way it should go and not set per color swatch… Markcq, mbuchichio and Jobalou 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobalou Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 I agree with jocstone. Its more easy do select an object and define an overprint than create a lots os colors specifically to overprint... you can make a mistake and select an object with that color.I need a single color in my color palette to behave in different ways. jocstone, Cal, Jowday and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeanKidneyDan Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 overprint-by-color seems like madness, and a way to open your document up to bad output. Why not by object? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markcq Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Overprint by colour does have some value and I like that, but when I do packaging design I sometimes need to add overprint to one element. It would be easier to have an option to just overprint that one element. And seeing as overprinting is an option there has to be a way to preview the overprint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Pro Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I can recommend you set a Multiply blend mode for fill layer. For CMYK mode it's same as overprint. You can see the color mixing if it is not black. But I agree Overprint preview and local overprint for objects is essential ! Quote Windows 10 | AMD R7-2700 CPU | NVIDIA RTX 2060 | 8 GB RAM. Affinity: Photo, Designer licenses. Graphical Designer | CG Generalist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector45 Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 I do not know what I am doing wrong, I already had the overtprint in black, I export it to pdf and it does not apply, I do not want to regret buying this program but these details begin to harm me, there is no separation preview, yes or no ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Laskey Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 On 6/6/2020 at 8:24 PM, Hector45 said: I do not know what I am doing wrong, I already had the overtprint in black, I export it to pdf and it does not apply, I do not want to regret buying this program but these details begin to harm me, there is no separation preview, yes or no ? Which pdf preset do you use? In pdf export dialogue choose one of the PDF/X presets, say PDF/X-4 Hector45 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector45 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Thanks Robert, I am new to the program, and it helped me a lot, forget to try the different presets Robert Laskey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorox Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 On 6/6/2020 at 7:24 PM, Hector45 said: I do not know what I am doing wrong, I already had the overtprint in black, I export it to pdf and it does not apply, I do not want to regret buying this program but these details begin to harm me, there is no separation preview, yes or no ? No, obviously (and sadly) there is no separation preview yet. I wish there was, as these "details" as you put it are quite annoying to me , too. I'm actually a bit tired to have to run my Affinity exported PDFs through Acrobat Pro (which I fortunately have, but many among us may not) several times to hunt down those spots where these separation issues occur (most of due to Black not overprinting as it should). As to your example screenshot: are you sure that "Global Colour 155" you apllied to your text is actually just 100 % K and nothing else? More often than not I find that the colour applied to text that I was quite sure I had chosen Black (from the swatches panel) for wasn't actually 100% K but some "rich" Black containing degrees of CMY. I suspect that when I convert to or assign a CMYK colour profile to my document the grayscale swatches (including Black) don't get by default converted to just 100 % K (for Black) or percentages thereof (other grayscale tints). Or maybe elements which had been made "Black“ before retain their "old" mix-of-CMYK Black as those Grayscale swatches don't seem to be global by default. This certainly is harming me an my joy of using the Affinity apps, too, as each and every time when I finally check my PDFs meant for printing there seems to be some issue of this kind – something that has been an absolute exception during 15+ years of working in InDesign... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amvjb Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 +1 For overprint colour preview & CMYK colour separation preview. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 On Mac, we now have a new, pretty nice, simple, and free solution: 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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