ponce068 Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Read in forum "some people" ask this feature... But color separations preview is important for professional printing. For printing process, we use Illustrator a lot for these tools: checking resolution of bitmap pictures, checking and correcting CMYK (especially convert composite black to true black when a pdf has been generated with som "exotic" software") and so on. Full control and preview is important if not working only for screen and web! That's why I continue to use Adobe Illustrator rather Affinity Designer. Printing a PDF and checking resutl in Acrobat is not an answer. Wish this helpfull fonction will be added one and not stay specific to Adobe... Hope it will be present in Publisher too if it pretends to be a serious "InDesign Killer". So Hope I can really work with "Affinity suite" once main professional functions are here :-) Sorry for english mistakes, usually writing in french here. cperse, Zekez, GregoriusX and 5 others 4 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alux Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 You are right! It is an essential function for printing. As it would be essential to have the possibility of assigning the overprint also to fillets or fillings with selection colors. For example, I should be able to assign overprinting to black (selection) threads when they overlap a light yellow type so that they do not pierce the underlying color. Dazmondo77 and CLC 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackleys Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Older Thread but I will +1 this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prepress Reggy Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 True, cmyk preview is essential if you want to compete with Indesign/Illustrator. I want to see which objects are in overprint or knocked out. It's very important if you want to output for newspaper. For that matter I still use Indesign/Illustrator in combination with Acrobat Pro with it's foolproof PDF/X-1a 2001 and cmyk overprint preview with output intent. There are too much uncertainties with Affinity Publisher to output a press ready PDF. Not enough checkpoints. I hope it's a high priority on their roadmap. Apart from that I love Affinty ;-) CLC and Dazmondo77 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponce068 Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 Yes, you are right it's old thread... But no good answer, no plugin and soon version 2.0 of Affinity products... Really too bad these functions are missing in Designer and especially Publisher... Sounds essesntial for pro printing... Can hope some tools in version 3.x of the products? :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponce068 Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 Should work with PacificPixel perhaps (etsy)... Did some tool for cmyk but sounds only for Affinity Photo... And this one is the less usefull of three software for such print preview Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponce068 Posted October 21, 2021 Author Share Posted October 21, 2021 Sure you make a fantastic version 1.10... An nope about CMYK color separation that is essentiel in pre-press and professional printing... I'm angry cos I need to continue with Adobe product due to that: checking separtions, true black, pictures resolutions... So I didn' had a look to Affinity Publisher, guess it's not better :-( I was waiting for some credible alternative but just missing some points make the fact that we have to continue to pay THE reference. Sorry. Dazmondo77 and CLC 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoriusX Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Just purchased the Black Friday Affinity Designer deal. I love how fast and smooth Designer works! I really miss these features in AD. Please add them asap as I'm looking forward to using this app as my go to design environment. Dazmondo77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.: NICKY G. :. Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 +10 Here is an INDISPENSABLE thing that is currently missing. For those who work in the press it is a vitally important function to check the color separation so as not to expect surprises in the press. CLC and Dazmondo77 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianB Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 +1 for me too. I had to dig up an old Acrobat Pro 9 on an old Mac just to be able to do separation preview. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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