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  1. Hi. I can't seem to find a way to make a named style for pen tool lines. Suppose want to make a quickly selectable "line style" that has some predefined attributes for use with the pen tool, such as 4pt, a particular pressure patern, color, etc. If this can be done in AD, please give me some hints as to how. Thanks.
  2. Is there a way to select all sublayers to a layer to do an action, such as change stroke width? In AD 2.1 Mac, I want to select a layer (or several layers at the same layer) but also select all sublayers, so that when I do something like change a stroke color or width, the change would apply to the objects in all the layers and sublayers. Instead, I'm finding that if I select a layer, say, and change it's stroke, there's no option that I can see to affect all sublayers. Using the Select > Select Object menu doesn't offer much help. Also, isn't it possible to drag-select layers in the layers panel? I thought I saw that as an option somewhere. Thanks!
  3. I'm finding that Shape Builder operations frequently crash my Designer 2.0 system out to the OS (Windows 10). Hopefully you can repeat the problem: Open the attached file. Select the Inks and Shapes layer. Click the Shape Builder tool. Start building shapes. For example, I just built shapes to try to make one shape out of the right arm and to attempt to add the circles into the pants where they intersect. Anecdotally I have the impression that if I reboot the PC, I can resume work for a little while longer than if I just start up Designer again. Memory leak, perhaps? lucy drawing.afdesign
  4. My sessions often crash too when after I've used shape builder for a while during a session. I can reboot, open the recovery file, then continue for a while. Could therefor be a memory leak. Unfortunately, this is an issue that's hard to repeat, since I have to be in the session for a while before it crashes.
  5. Hi. Say I want to change the color of a shirt in AP. Here's what I do: Use the Selection Brush Tool to select the shirt. Click adjustment button, then recolor option. An adjustment layer is created. I change the color, then hit escape to remove the selection. However, I then find edges along the recolored shirt that I didn't properly include in the selection. Issue: I can't find a way to re-display the selection that the adjustment was applied to so that I can add/remove areas of the adjustment. Am I missing something? Here's what I've tried: Click the adjustment layer. Click the Flood Selection Tool. Click somewhere in the shirt. (A selection that looks like my original selection appears.) Click on the Selection Brush tool. I can add and subtract to the selection, but the adjusted color doesn't fill in the new areas. It seems frozen to its original shape. Thanks for your help. Kurt
  6. OK thx. So if I have a properly linked text frame in my master page, then I attempt to import 100 pages worth of text, then will Publisher AUTOMATICALLY create enough pages (with appropriate text flow from page to page) to accommodate all the text? Or, perhaps I need to manually add 100 pages first? (Yes I agree that the Guttenberg text will need some cleanup.)
  7. Is there a way to import a lot of text (in my case, from an open source book on Google Gutenberg) into a new Publisher Document? I understand how one can create a text frame and place text into it. But is there a way to have Publisher automatically create new pages with linked text frames so that I don't have to this manually? Thanks. -KUrt
  8. Hi all. Is it generally the case that when you are doing freehand sketching, say with a tablet, then one should use the Vector Brush Tool? I ask because the following attributes of the pen and pencil tool suggest they are suboptimal for sketching: Pen Tool: Of course, the pen line doesn't follow the path of the tablet pen, but connects the down- and up-stroke points according to the node mode. Pencil too: When you lift up the pen, the nodes in the stroke become highlighted. This is distracting. (Unless, is there a way to prevent the nodes from being auto-selected when lifting the pen?) Thanks! -Kurt
  9. Thanks John. Alfred, John's use case of a map is a good one. Imagine you are making an imaginary map of countries and bodies of water. Each country/body borders several other countries/bodies, as you would expect with a map. Oh, and the borders are not straight, but wavy. What I'm looking for is a way to shift the borders around (eg, dragging a border to make one country bigger and another country smaller WITHOUT having to ensure, for example, that the layer for the country that I'm making larger is above the layer of the countries that are becoming smaller. How can this be done without constantly managing layers and overlaps? Let me know if an example would still help. Thanks!
  10. I'd like to see a feature that allows a shape to share its border(s) with one (or more) shapes. This would allow a user to change the borders of adjacent shapes quickly, and without having to worry about making one border exactly lie on top of another border after a reshaping, or managing which shape's layer positioned relative to the layer of other shapes. Or maybe I'm missing this feature. I'm new at AD. Plz let me know if such feature exists. Thanks!
  11. I'm looking at curve node options. Each node has two handles. I see how it's possible to make the node handles work independently by holding down the Alt key when moving a node handle. But i'd like to know: Is there a way to DELETE a handle on one side, thereby making the node "half-sharp"? Is there way to lock the handles so that they always have the same length? (Inkscape has this.) Thanks
  12. ...Also, the current symbol system doesn't have mirror functionality where if you move object A towards object B, object moves towards object A. Positional symmetry isn't maintained.
  13. Nice tip, thanks. However I see that alter the SCALE of one symbol, the other instances aren't affected. Suppose I want to scale the size of an eyeball on the x and/or y axis? How can I get other instances to scale as well?
  14. I think one useful modification for the Forums would be to force those who post a topic to select one or more of the products (Photo, Designer, Publisher) instead of relying on the user to specify a tag. This would make searches much more efficient. For example, I recently was wondering about a mirroring feature in Designer. But when I search for "mirror(ing)" I got a lot of unwanted hits for AP. Thanks.
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