What I was thinking is that a person could just paste (a black version of) the vector elements back into the design on the appropriate color/layer. As for naming the swatches, I think I can do that but have not explored swatches much except for setting up a swatch palette for the design. Might that include the page name you refer to?Īnywho.I am just doing seps for my 6 color manual press so Im pretty sure I can identify which color each layer represents. I notice there IS a check box in the AD print setup menu for inserting registration marks and 'page information'. But I haven't found names for the layers (I presume you are referring to the colors?) But they could actually be in there somewhere. And it's in 'film' form (as opposed to color).

There seems to be a corresponding layer for each color. Im still trying to figure out what exactly I do get back in AD when I import the eps created in Sep Stu. I am brand new to this tho so have yet to actually print anything thru it. Thanks again for taking the time to help! Yes I do have Accurip Black Pearl. Might there be a way to use it to do seps? * What about Affinity Photo? I just got it the other day and have not had time to play with it yet.

So now Im a little gun-shy about forking over another $200-300 clams for yet another app that may or may not do what I need. You have to take it back into your design app to add any vector elements back in and print it. It is basically just an expensive color tweaking tool that then issues the separations of only the raster elements. * Are there any suggestions for another app I can use to separate my designs done in AD? I shelled out $800 for Separation Studio and then found out that it doesn't really do the whole job of separating the designs. I just hate that Corel doesn't run native on Mac and of course I hate the price tag. * Does anyone know if it is in the works for a future update? If it's not even a pipe dream yet, then I am going to have to drop AD and start learning Corel. Im still hopeful that I can find a way to get around the issue until it becomes a feature.

Had I known this about AD, I would not have chosen it as my design app. With so many people needing this seemingly simple feature, I find it mind-boggling that AD does not have this capability right out front. I am still working on coming up with some sort of work-around for how to do color separations in AD (as it appears many have tried in the past).

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