PEKA62 Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 is it possible to set foreground/background colours in a one bit bitmap like I know it from Quark? Can the background be set to transparent like in Quark? Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Those sound, to me, more like Photo functions than Publisher functions, and I would expect that the workflow would be to Place a file into your Publisher document, then if you need to change its appearance you would switch to the Photo Persona (when enabled, and assuming you own Photo) to make the changes, then switch back to the Publisher Persona. However, even Photo does not support 1-bit bitmap files today. You can work with grayscale files that have only two colors (black/white, for example, or black/transparent) and then you can change the foreground/background to whatever you want. But it doesn't support bitmapped files at this point. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Those sound, to me, more like Photo functions than Publisher functions Not really, but as Affinity does not support 1-bit graphics, then maybe yes. Though you can get similar result by playing with blend modes and masking in Publisher: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coso Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 This is a pretty basic fuctionality that IMO needs to be implemented. Think about doing a two pantone leaflet, with a bitmap image. You can fill the foreground/background of the bitmap accordingly and print it with two pantones. Doing it via blend modes is impossibile, because wrong color values will be created. Bitmaps are very common in contemporary print graphic design. PEKA62, midsummer, Przemysław and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PEKA62 Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 Yeah, I often use 1bit bitmaps with pantone in 4c documents.... midsummer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fpcleao Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 It is indeed VERY common to use 1bit bitmap images in books (assigning spot color to it) and I cannot imagine using Affinity Publisher without support for it. mandrael and midsummer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docpatcheko Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 This was literally the first thing I tried after installing. It's such a simple tool and something I use very regularly. I also can't imagine switching to Affinity without it. mandrael and midsummer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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