Paul Bravery

The Help search function seems to work fine for me, it includes system results as well. I'm using a late 2012 iMac 21.5", 16GB RAM, i7, 1TB Fusion HDD, nVidia 9400M. El Capitan. Antivirus is Sophos for Mac.

Hopefully the droids I am looking for will show up! ;) Office Christmas party tonight, my secret Santa recipient gets a BB-8 coffee mug. :rolleyes:

I'm a fanboy, so may The Force be with you! :D

Trying to upload another of the same place but further along the valley & using MAS 1.4! Not working, what is an Error500?

Hi albert55, Welcome to the forum. :) The same App Store licensing applies, as with any other app purchased this way. You can have up to 5 devices using the same licensed Affinity software, provided all 5 are using the same Apple ID when opening the App Store. Therefore if you originally installed it on a MBP & then later buy an additional iMac, as long as you use the same Apple ID when you open the App Store on the iMac & click on the Purchased tab, you will see your purchases are ready for installing. Hope this answers your question. Paul.

Hi jun_june13, Welcome to the forum. :) It's possible that Affinity is expecting the .ai file to have PDF compatibility but the file does not because it uses a legacy format. That is why you get a parsing error. Can it be exported to PDF, instead of .ai from Rhino 3D? That may help. Paul.

Hi FreshGresh, An RGB Affinity file can be converted to CMYK. The resulting black will still be 'dark' because it will be a 'rich black' made up of percentages of CMYK, not 100% K on it's own. I hope this is clear. Paul.

I just started uploading a few simple vectors for istockphoto.com this month, and to my surprise I could actually upload a .eps file created in Affinity Designer to their site without any issues. Usually I stay away from gradients and opacity though since I experience less compatibility issues by just getting the colours right in the first place, but for realism it would still be nice to be able to do gradients and still have them accepted. I tried uploading one file that had a two very simple shapes with gradients in it and got this reply: Quote So it seems the gradient used in Affinity Designer isn't AI10 EPS compatible, which is used as the "lowest common denominator" of .eps files. There's some more info on compatibility issues in their training manual: https://secure.istoc...s/illustration with the file format criterions here: Quote The reason why I'm posting this is since Affinity Designer seems to be aimed for the professional market, so I thought I'd post a heads up on what certain sites require for files to be accepted for sale. I've also had a few issues with joining paths, is there a "cmd + J" like hotkey I could use to join two anchor points to create a combined "curve"? Hi tcarisland, Adobe Illustrator's method of producing editable EPS files, with gradient fills, is proprietary to Adobe. This makes it compatible only with Adobe Illustrator. Compatibility issues used to occur between users of Adobe Illustrator & Aldous/Macromedia Freehand, both softwares being generally accepted in the professional market at the time. With keyboard shortcuts for joining paths, the Beta allows for the user to create custom shortcuts (bare in mind that the default shortcut for duplication is already cmd-J): The next Mac App Store update should have this feature included, along with a raft of others. Paul.

Hi photoangel, Sorry to see that you haven't found time to really use the trial software. It appears by your other 2 posts, that you did not get past opening the app & then closing it. May I suggest buying the App Store version? This gives you free updates & access to pre-release Beta versions for testing. That's what I did, with no regrets, for a relatively small investment. Paul. ;)

Thanks, Leigh! It was taken in Glenorchy, South Island, New Zealand – Filming location of some scenes for The Lord of The Rings movies. http://pureglenorchy.com/lord-of-the-rings-guided-tours/

Hi all. Very pleased with the results of this panorama, :) no retouching done – made from 6 overlapping hand held photos taken in 2012: Paul.

Hmm, that's strange, no such Issue for me!

Hi BJA 42. Love your feedback, any chance you'll showcase some of your work on the forum? Paul.

Hi 1979mark, I've attached an Affinity Designer Beta file which I think does what you want. I drew a shape with a 0.5pt stroke & no fill, then selected a Pantone swatch, which I edited to 100% Magenta only and and then re-named it to the required naming convention of Roland. I hope this is clear. You will need the latest Beta version to open the file. Paul. CutContour.afdesign

Looking forward to more from you, then… ;)

Hi ELBeavers, Wow, well done! A lot of work in this, how long did it take you? Paul.

Hi Xavier, There is something definitely odd about the Hannotate fonts. Adobe Reader cannot 'extract' the fonts, even though I made sure that font embedding is on: The PDF views OK in Preview. When I return to work on Monday, I'll try printing from the PDF - opened in Preview. Hannotate.pdf Paul.

Hi ikkiphenix, I am using El Capitan, the Hannotate font is also present. Maybe the accented letters are encoded differently to the printer specification, so it is fine as a screen font but has no printer font equivalent? It also has some missing Chinese characters: Hannotate.tiff Is your printer a PostScript printer or USB/WiFi connected? It could also mean that font reproduces best on a PostScript printer. What ever the reason, it appears that you need to adopt one of the workarounds previously mentioned. Paul.

Hi ikkiphenix, Where did you acquire the Hannotate font from & what format (Truetype, PostScript Type 1, Open Type) is it?

Sorry, Xavier. My pre-press knowledge came into play to identify possible cause. Maybe a dev can help on the Affinity side.

Hi Giovanni, Madame is correct, cmd J will place a duplicate layer above the original layer. Paul.

Hi ikkiphenix, Welcome to the forum. :) It sounds like a font embedding or printer compatibility issue. What app do you use to print the PDF from, can you 'print as image' in your print set up? Paul.

The 'Jaapie' is very much in charge! http://www.canonical.com/about#mark-shuttleworth

Not bad for a Beta, (Comice also)! I always look on the bright side of death… (In a Monty Python voice).

Yes! Gave it a whirl…