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I'm quite certain, however, I'd actually pay as much for an up to date PDF tool (meeting the requirements mentioned before), as long as I cannot be sure my PDFs from AD or AP are really 100% standards compliant, even if I do everything right (within the limits of those applications).įor many days I now have searched for an equivalent alternative to Acrobat Pro. But it's almost double the price for an Affinity app nevertheless. The 100 bucks for Font Explorer X make me swallow, in fact, but given my usage of quite an extensive font library and my wish to have some solid structure here, it possibly seems justifiable (all others except Suitcase Fusion, an really old version which I've been able to use up to El Capitan on my Mac, are lacking on or the other feature I'd like to have). (having nothing to do with the Affinty apps, though). 1% is for – very rarely – being able to fix certain problems (like reducing unwanted color density caused by quirks in the PDF’s creator sortware) which cannot be addressed by making changes to the document within the app it's been used to create.Īnd yeah: good font managers are another thing. Nothing to be rent.Įxactly, I'm completely with you here. I would gladly pay something for this kind of a tool, but not more than e.g. I t has o f course been nice to be able to use Acrobat Pr o and its preflight tools to ensure that everything is "really" ok, and I still do this as a kind of compulsory act when delivering anyth ing to the printer, but much more simpler verifier and troubleshooter should suffice to notify problems in the output. That said, I have been hoping there might be some 3rd party standalone app which might do those tricks and be reasonably priced as well – but looking through the posts here that may be a hope that won't be fulfilled any time soon (if ever, that is).ĥ00 bucks for Callas PDFToolbox is certainly way too heavy – but it seems like it's the only app which does all the tricks you may need at some time when you need to pass on production safe PDFs to printers. I rare but crucial cases it has also helped me with prepress specials like reducing ink density in some PDFs created by InDesign (you won't possibly think so, but you can actually output PDFs having 400% ink in certain spots with InDesign ALTHOUGH you're applying a color profile with a 340% max setting while doing so.
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I – like others – have used Acrobat Pro mainly for preflight purposes and do so still with version 9.5.5 on my old machine running El Capitan. This is a very interesting discussion as I have been asking myself for some time now how I could possibly replace Acrobat Pro once I've moved completely to the Affinity apps and a new Mac running (for the time being) Mojave.
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aaaaaand here's where i remember you were looking for Mac *doh* well maybe some part of that will lead you to an actual solution lol I hope any of that was in some way helpful. As far as PDF programs, I am currently using the free PDF24 products, which are free.
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Then I came across an article showing how to get Illustrator CS2 for free, so I did that and it also handles color seps (and text warping!) just fine, despite its age and the fact that I'm using Windows 10.
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Then I discovered that Affinity's predecessor, (the Plus products) DrawPlusX8 also does color separations and I began using that. While I was looking for a similar solution when I first started with Affinity, I made my designs and exported them to do color separations with Scribus (which is free) and that worked well enough. I can't remember if ink density was an option but AI did my seps and then i could use whatever pdf program I wanted from there. When i was using Illustrator, I did all my work using the Pantone spot colors, then Illustrator would handle the color separations. Looks like I'm sticking with Acrobat Pro 9 then which does the job on c hecking separations and ink density, Verify PDF/X standards conformance, but won't run on new macs FFS - can't believe theres no alternative?!?!?!?!
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