I’d rather use PDF Passthrough if possible. So I’d rather not use this method if I can avoid it. The one or two times I tried importing files this way, I think Publisher messed with some of the objects on the page.

On the Affinity forum, someone suggested I import the PDFs via “Add pages from file”, then do “select all”, and set the color to 100% K in the Color sidebar. Have any of you done this kind of thing before, and if so, can you explain the process? I know how to make the text added in Publisher pure black, but I’m not sure about the music PDFs. I realize that I need to make sure the PDF exported from Publisher uses pure black (100% K), not rich (4-color) black. I have no prior experience working with a print shop or DTP software. My understanding is that print shops require PDFs in the CMYK colorspace.

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