The chances of ever seeing a usable CMYK export, or the ability to create a true Grayscale export option in Designer Pro+ in my lifetime are slim and none.
I am preparing to convert 40 Pro+ RGB images, 3000 x 2400px and 40 non-grayscale black and white RGB stereograms and depth images to CMYK TIFF and Grayscale for publication in Japan.
Just for chuckles I took the first image, a PNG image created in Pro+ and converted it to CMYK from Pro+. And then I exported the same image to CMYK from Affinity Photo.
First off, Affinity's export maintained most of the brightness and saturation of a particularly hard image with lots of purple and bright blue, difficult colors to reproduce in 4 CMYK.
Muddy and unsaturated, and unusable, the Pro+ image came in at 17.2MB. The brighter, more saturated Affinity Photo CMYK image was only 15.1MB.
My memory does not go back far enough the first time we requested a decent, professional-quality CMYK export filter, or a true Grayscale export filter.
But if it's not a Block, it's never going to happen. I accept this. But it does not warm the cockles of my heart.
(The side-by-side attached image was enlarged from the Windows preview images in Topaz Gigapixel AI. The photo with the A is the Affinity Photo export)
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