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Yes indeed --- I sorely miss Scriptographer - the wonderful scripting plug in for Illustrator - It made all sorts of things easy - like scatter and other sorts of vector brushes from selections, palette create and apply..... But then I was happy writing small bits of Javascript. please excuse my trip down memory lane..... https://scriptographer.org/scripts/general-scripts/objects-on-paths-scatter-brush/comments

Very unfortunate that Cut /Copy are not implemented as the instruction rather than some 'oh you want this old image' ! I had a macro to try to create patterns -- it started as " cut paste paste fliphorizontal.... " and so on to create the standard 9-grid. recorded it - tried it and it worked fine ( or at least appeared to ) Ran it again today after about 6 months and the old image was created ---- spent ages wondering what the ... was going on. Finally found this design error - and yes I call it that -- 😞

Cyclic with 3 nozzles in my case uses the first nozzle about 20 times then the next one for 20 . It would be really nice if it cycled the nozzles in the way one normally understands the word... a b c a b c not aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb,...... ? EDIT actually it does aaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbccccccccccccccbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbb 😮

I cannot see what I am doing wrong here. Any pointer to existing comment gratefully received as I didn't see the topic. I was a long time puzzled by the behaviour of vector brushes and built some examples. I understand for a textured image brush the phrase 'based on colour values of the image' does not mean 'uses colours of the image' and it's actually a grayscale brush. The puzzle is when the stroke colour is set to a tint or shade - how do I get the brush to use the specified colour of the stroke and not jump to full intensity ? vectorstrokecolour.afdesign

The one that fails DD Vector Brick Wall Texture 34231_DD Vector Brick Wall Texture 34231-openedin designer.afdesign

I did some further exploration for you. Opening Designer, placing the AI file, writing the text, exporting to JPEG - fine Opening the AI file with Designer , writing the text , exporting to JPEG - metadata error DD Vector Brick Wall Texture 34231_DD Vector Brick Wall Texture 34231.ai

I have , for once, raised a new topic to call attention. Bad practice, but I feel it is justfied in this case.

For some people when including photos that may be because PNG does not contain EXIF ? I am just wondering, having typed that, if there is a problem when there is NO metadata to include 🙂

Now eight years old and counting -- and still anoying people.......

Has anyone noticed that this thread is EIGHT YEARS OLD - is it just in the 'too hard' pile ? I cannot believe it would be a challenge to code.

Imported vector brick wall from an *.ai file , wrote the graffiti as art text , rasterised the layers. Export to jpeg gave this error. Tried again and export just had a hang-loop. Question out of curiosity ... what sort of metadata is being exported here as there is no camera data or similar ? In my case a simple fix was to turn off 'export metadata' in the export dialogue as I did not have any need of it. Hope this may help in analysis of the problem. (Windows 11 Envy i7 desktop 32Gb RAM Designer 2.5.2) brickwall_brickwall2.afdesign

This keeps driving me crazy - I work on several things in the same day and each time I do a test export or save as new version I have to go through the same rigmarole. There may be some customers who have multiple sources and all their exports go to a single folder but I cannot imagine working that way. At the very least could we have this as an application level option.

Thank you all for responding... It's one of those things that did not work yesterday but did today < shakes head in a mystified manner > but very pleased !

Working in Publisher 2.5 with V1 templates provided to me for election material, though I do not think the versions are the issue. I think I have fallen over two weaknesses in text search - catch 22s One does not seem to be able to search text for paragraphs set to No Style. I appreciate the ambiguity here of a) not using style in the search and b) searching for text with no style. This would be very helpful as part of the checking process so I can find the odd ones I have missed. An almost identical problem with fonts. The templates had some odd fonts and I made a substitution to Old English so that I could spot them visually. Text Find cannot search for the missing font as it uses the installed fonts as the menu. It also cannot search for text using my substitute font as the text is not set to that font ( the substitution elsewhere in the process? ) Any ideas very welcome - especially if I have missed something obvious - I have many more documents to go. I didn't see this as a topic elsewhere - apologies if I missed but I am in a bit of a rush here!

I find myself a little confused in having Cormorant (eg) with 'Light' twice in the drop down menu when both forms are installed - only by selecting can I see if a particular Light is actually the variable one, when the 'v' button lights up. Could Affinity perhaps put Light* in the menu (or just * ) to avoid this confusion? I am not a heavyweight professional user but I make leaflets for politics, festivals and so on and don't want to cause them grief! Edit : for advice..... I notice also that some fonts that occur in both forms ( Google Cinzel for instance ) have naming that makes it impossible to have both forms under Windows - installing either asks if the regular form is to be overwritten on install. Is this 'just how it is' and everyone has to live with it? I don't really want to update FontCreator just to change names as designing variable fonts is out of my league.