Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998
On a recent rainy walk along the shores of Lake Windermere, my seven year old haversack was the worse for wear, the rubberised lining disintegrating, so I chose this Osprey Daylite Plus for our latest walk on the Thames path a couple of weeks ago.
I drew in bamboo pen in Noodler’s black ink and, as the blotty bits are going to take a long time to dry, I photographed the drawing, rather than putting it on the scanner.
If you’re enthusiastic bordering on obsessive about typography like me, you might feel that the way Affinity prints type isn’t quite punchy enough.
“I don’t think anyone else would notice,” says Barbara, but after all the effort I’ve put into designing the page, I’d like to see it just as I imagined it, not two shades paler.
Google AI summarises the problem:
The primary reason text printed from Affinity may appear paler than from InDesign is the way black is defined and handled in the color space settings . . .
InDesign is designed for professional print workflows and often automatically handles black text as 100% black (K100), which typically results in solid, crisp, sharp edges when printed.”
A suggested workaround of setting the text to 100% black doesn’t work for me. I’d be interested to hear if there’s a simple way of getting ‘solid, crisp, sharp’ edged text Perhaps there’s a setting that I’ve missed?
I like Affinity’s innovation in combining photo editing, vector design and layout but if it’s not going handle printing text as I’d like it, I’ll have to stick with Adobe InDesign.