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  2. Hi. Once exported to PDF, the image (JPG origin) has a pixelated preview. Should I import it into the layout in eps format like in Indesign? What should I do please. Thank you in advance for your feedback.
  3. There being no reply to this I am assuming I need to buy the product again. Or decide not to go with Affinity.
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  5. There is no Edit Document button in V2 and double clicking does not work. Help!
  6. HI lacerto, I agree that this is a bit odd, but the print shop is on the other side of the U.S. from where I am, so I'm restricted to remote correspondence only, and I'm relying on the shop manager to provide me with the color profile and "rich black" values that he feels will work best with his equipment. It turns out that the new shop is capable of digital printing only, whereas the previous shop was using an offset printing process, where I was instructed to use K-only text to eliminate any loss of clarity due to minor registration differences between the different color plates. We did have the new shop do a couple of test prints, with the first one having some color tint issues as well as the black text (at that time K-only) wasn't as clear as the printing done by the previous shop. The second test print came out very nicely, with the shop making some "adjustments" on their side. The new shop recommended the 60.40.40.100 "rich black", and I'm assuming that this is one of the adjustments that they did in preparation for the second test print. FYI, we had no problem with the first shop, but it was located in the UK, and the staff in our organization who had been responsible for picking up the printed magazines, packaging them, and mailing them out are no longer available, so we're switching to a more locally-located shop. Thanks, Ken
  7. Hi thomaso. Thanks for this. It worked great, and let me convert all of the document's text at once! I didn't realize that it was possible to search for practically any formatting that's supported. Ken
  8. Hi - Hope someone can help me with this problem. I'm watching an Affinity Designer tutorial for creating our own styles. I'm about a quarter the way through and there are a several steps that don't seem to be working. Beginning with a square: 1) applying more than one color to the style picked - the video shows using 2 colours but doesn't clearly show how to do this. I can only apply one. 2) applying an effect - in this instance the inner shadow 3) adding style to style panel - I've tried both ways shown - neither of them is functioning. A style box comes up but there's nothing showing inside it! 4) When they say add noise this is not coming up as shown - I'm only seeing opacity which is at 100% - this means I cannot add noise as it's at its highest opacity! 5) Duplicating style into styles category Oh goodness the list is getting longer and longer! HELP
  9. selection mode refine selection window is any way draw selection same way rough than outside of this window? i mean all mask drawing with this mode is smooth looking. other things as well. i know is meaned fines adjustments but still. also is possible smooth rough selection later? i mean automatic and not way what smooth and feather does i dont even understand what is logic in feather. i see what its do when i tested but still when i understand technically i can imagine what it does in speffic cases maybe even without testing. and something like antialias i seen other program years ago antialias any bitmap ten such feature in here for mask and other ways as well sounds nice idea. its like very tiny smoothing what is smaller than 1px allows i think something close to happens partly wth smaller values but then some areas what are part of mask gets hole... i maybe archived something what i meaned but not exactly but close. with when i convert pixel layer mask and and edit and add gaussian blue with 0.2px and such start look like it. and this also solves partly also mask colour colour when i use this bitmap mask with rectangle for example i can change rectangle colour to see it perfect. also apply other kind effects this mask image as well. and to me is silly we cannot change mask colour if some one in Serif reads this please tell why is limited only this red? and its most clear way see where mask is but in some images red is indeed is not best colour.
  10. This is a bit strange procedure (especially if you have regular body text or notes in K-only), and also, because determining "rich black" with a predefined mixture is a bit odd, unless a specific tone (e.g. bluish, brownish, etc. tone is wanted), but in case neutral rich black is wanted, the easiest solution, as long as all you have in your design is text (anything laid out using fonts) and native shapes, is to use a different CMYK profile than what you currently use, either by using File > Document Setup > Color and switch the CMYK target profile, and make sure that you have Convert option selected. Or, when exporting, using a different CMYK profile than what your document uses. This will make sure that the rich black conversion is optimal and neutral (determined by the color profile). If your current CMYK profile is already correct, first switch to another CMYK profile but using the "Assign" option. Then convert to final CMYK profile and use the "Convert" option. But if what you really need is having CMYK 60, 40, 40, 100 (and limit the change strictly to text), then Find/Replace, shown above by @thomaso, would be the solution.
  11. I suppose you could say it is inherited. I modified the Base style to my liking. I created the Body paragraph style based on the Base style. I created the Chapter Tiel paragraph style based on the Body style and edited it to be a larger font size and small caps. I created a master page for the chapter title pages. On that master page, I created a frame text box for the chapter title, and when the cursor was blinking in that box, I selected the Chapter Title style. Later, when adding content to the book: I import the contents of a chapter into the right side of a two-page spread based on a two-page spread on the master page. First, I break the link between the body frame text boxes and then import the text by clicking File > Place. I shift-click the link handle to auto-create all the pages in the chapter. I return to the first page of the chapter and change its master page to the chapter title master page. I type the chapter title into the appropriate frame text box. Maybe that's too much detail, but that's how the small caps setting is applied.
  12. In lack of Adobe Acrobat Pro or other tool that you can use to directly convert a CMYK output to sRGB, I would first export a PDF/X-4 file from Designer, which will produce an all CMYK file using the color gamut you are seeing on your canvas. Then I would open that file in Designer in RGB color mode and export to RGB color mode PDF and SVG. The colors should be pretty close to ones you have in the original CMYK mode document. 2. LOVE SAVES THE DAY for inflatable flat for printing color copy_pdfx4.pdf 2. LOVE SAVES THE DAY for inflatable flat for printing color copy_rgb.pdf 2. LOVE SAVES THE DAY for inflatable flat for printing color copy_rgb.svg
  13. @lacerto Thanks. Honestly I do not understand much of what you wrote. I'm trying to maintain the color from the original AD file when I export it into other formats. Can you give me directions or a screenshot if you don't mind please.
  14. Thank you @old bruce that's weird but I see you are right. I usually create in RGB I think, but even when I don't and I use the export settings and make it RGB, it doesn't usually change the colors. But this time it is. Do you know how to make it so the colors stay the same no matter what? I want it to look the way it does in the AD file. Thanks!
  15. A simple alternative would be the Node Tool + Transform Mode. Unfortunately it does not preserve the colour per line as in your sample. strokes lines blend.m4v
  16. If the issue is that colors get clearly more saturated in RGB mode compared to native CMYK (in which mode the design is created), the reason is that RGB based definitions and/or effects have been used while staying in CMYK mode which cannot display RGB gamut. If you want to have RGB output as close to CMYK as possible, always define all colors using CMYK color model, including effects. Note that use of effects and adjustments typically causes conversion of certain elements to raster objects (as in your design, indicated by the fact that conversion of image color spaces is necessary to have all elements converted to RGB).
  17. You should be able to convert everything to RGB simply by forcing it with export settings. Remember to also force conversion image color spaces:
  18. With that said, it looks like it may be caused by some personal settings on my computer, I will continue to look into it when I have time, you guys do a great job,Thanks!☺️
  19. As stated above, if you have Photo, you can use Channels panel and/or histogram. But you can cope with mere Publisher, as well, as you can use the Color panel to check color values of text objects (and vector objects), and adjustments like Channels to reveal color in parts that look black (K-only) but involve multiple channels. poorishmanspreflight.mp4 As for causes Publisher will convert K-only to CMYK (multi-channel), there are various, three of which are mentioned in the video clip. One further, very common reason, is applying any adjustment or blend mode on text or native K-only objects, causing rasterization to CMYK. Applying F/X effects will often also do that, even if outer effects and Gaussian Blur might survive non-rasterized. Using opacity percentage, too, would cause rasterization to CMYK in case PDF output does not allow live transparency. Last but not least, Affinity apps by default embed document ICC in a PDF export, which will cause incorrect readings in tools like Adobe Acrobat Pro in case "wrong" simulation profile is active, or when using Ghostscript for separation.
  20. Hello, I am trying to export an Affinity Designer file into PDF and SVG while maintaining the color profile as RGB, but it is switching to CMYK when I do that and there is no box to maintain RGB. Will you please let me know how to export in the different file formats while maintaining the design and color? Thanks! You can see the original design in the AD file, and how it has changed the flower coloration when a PDF, as well as SVG, where it is completely messed up. 2. LOVE SAVES THE DAY for inflatable flat for printing color copy.afdesign 2. LOVE SAVES THE DAY for inflatable flat for printing color copy.pdf 2. LOVE SAVES THE DAY for inflatable flat for printing color copy.svg
  21. Not only if you're typing. – For existing text choose the "Then Next Styles" option from the style's the burger menu. This menu option appears once a style has a "Next style" set in its style definition.
  22. Hi, I'm not sure if this suggestion is even possible to implement in photo, but here goes. In the Develop Persona, we can implement a graduated ND filter by selecting Overlay and then selecting the Gradient tool and then making adjustments. It might be useful if we could draw a freehand line for where the gradient starts/ends. For example, on a photo with sky and mountains, we could have the gradient follow the shape of the mountain and apply the gradient adjustment only to the sky. There may be a way to do this already, however, I have not found it, so, suggestions are welcome. I also wish my rectangular filters would do this also when I take photos. However it might be easier to implement in software than in glass! Thanks for listening, Paul
  23. Hi, I have a licence for the mac version but now don't have access to a mac computer. I now only use a windows laptop, am I entitled to a free download of the windows version as it is the only platform that I will be using going forward Thank you Paul
  24. Yes I have been having trouble with affinity, visual gliches on deform layers, or slow, laggy in proyects with many layers. Ohh understand, I have question bro, Normally in wine buils for games, like proton GE or proton buiilds the DXVK is saved in Proton-wine-example/wine-install/lib/wine/dxvk but in the ElementalWarrior-wine/wine-install/lib/wine/ it dont exits, where it have the binaries of DXVK? The other question is related to dxvk cache file that usually is in the same folder that .exe file, it should stay in Designer.exe in my case with affinity designer but it never appear and neither loads my dxvk.conf, still when try set as env variable not work, only can see the hud information if I use it as ENV variable, but if set dxvk.hud = 'full' in the dxvk.conf it never loads. Could the affinity runs in a virtual machine using the openCL ? without use single passtrought gpu? thank you very much for all your work !!!
  25. Hi all, It has taken a while but I did everything that was suggested and Affinity Photo is stable now. Thanks for your suggestions. Paul
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