thomaso Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 In a new CMYK document a frame text appears as black by default. That's fine. Unfortunately this Black appears in the cmyk slider view of the color pane not to be = 100 K but mixed 87 C + 78 M + 65 Y + 93 K, which additionally is a rich Black with 323 % print color. This complys to the default Black definition of an RGB document. Any chance to fix the default Black for all CMYK documents to 100 K? Fixx and Bryce 1 1 macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eugene Tyson Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Getting the same result. Even when exporting via PDF X4a which should leave all colours as they are. Huge miss here, for text this would be a disaster on a litho print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 You can change the default object defaults by editing them in your document and then using Edit > Defaults > Save. It's probably best to do this on a new blank document so there are no unwanted changes being saved. This works for text colour, font, size etc, and shape colour, stroke etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eugene Tyson Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 10 minutes ago, Dave Harris said: You can change the default object defaults by editing them in your document and then using Edit > Defaults > Save. It's probably best to do this on a new blank document so there are no unwanted changes being saved. This works for text colour, font, size etc, and shape colour, stroke etc. I have a print file, setup in the document from scratch. The swatch is reading as 100% black in Publisher. Exporting to PDF, even PDF x4a is turning the 100% black to 4 colour black. Any ideas? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine 108 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 There's been posted a solution in one of the other forums: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Can you attach a sample document that shows the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 That normally happens, if document profile and output profile are different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tudor Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 The default Grays palette available in Affinity Designer and Publisher is not CMYK-based, so if you apply the Black swatch from that palette, you'll get a rich black. Define your own 100% K black swatch and use that one. badcat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badcat Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 17 minutes ago, tudor said: The default Grays palette available in Affinity Designer and Publisher is not CMYK-based, so if you apply the Black swatch from that palette, you'll get a rich black. Define your own 100% K black swatch and use that one. Did not know this - thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eugene Tyson Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 20 minutes ago, tudor said: The default Grays palette available in Affinity Designer and Publisher is not CMYK-based, so if you apply the Black swatch from that palette, you'll get a rich black. Define your own 100% K black swatch and use that one. Well then tha'ts the issue - they should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eugene Tyson Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 I suggest having the CMYK swatches as default for all print docs. Bryce and woefi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieB Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 In InDesign the swatches palette has the 4 process colours, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black predefined as well as White (paper), Registration and None. The Black, Registration and None cannot be redefined. There are a couple of other colours there as well, Red Green and Blue, but they're also defined as cmyk. It would be good if the colours dropdown has these colours defined in cmyk and not HLS. You can set up the document to have the process colours, but it would be nice to have this as a default. It just seems odd to have a print document with HLS colours defined as you would only use cmyk or the pantone equivalents. Hope that helps... ericGa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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