gw_westdale

9 years and counting

Yes regex is somewhat helpful but needs running 3 times for '' , "" and then ' (apostrophe) . Always assuming that the text is correctly balanced 😉 One of my regular jobs is to take text in from a spreadsheet and lay it out with styles and so on. This text has been reviewed by about 6 people so I am very twitchy about any manual intervention! I use python to automate the application of line breaks, fonts and styles for that reason - these '' things are my last intervention 😞 It would be cool if replace ' with ' would use typographer’s quotes. << see what I did there...

Biased? How else does a developer decide what to implement than by listening to its users ---- or not listening in this case.

Eight years and five months and counting

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