DutchDude

Oeh. Just quoting that one line makes me sound like a d!ck. Not my intention! I'll just use Inkscape in breathless anticipation of Affinity's brilliance! Again, not trying to be d!ckish. Just in jest!

Hate to say this because I would love for AD to feature both these functions, most ideally with some more settings available, but as long as it doesn't: Inkscape does vectorising of a pixel file. And node reduction. And it's free. I also hate to say this: I used to use CorelDraw 4 or 5 (or 6?) on Win 3.1 when they had a student version for cheap. That had vectorising and node reduction. About almost 30 years ago... Come on, guys, it can't be that hard if CD had it 30 years ago? I used it in college and I'm almost a pensioner now!

Thank you! It will be exported as a .pdf with swatches for the printer. Also I want the logo to be scalable. I'm alright now.

Ah. I did the conversion from text to curve earlier and possibly did something else to it. In my resulting set of curves I did the "add" command and the inside curve of the O and A were added to the outside since they were both in the same space that meant the insides were absorbed and their curves dissolved. Rebuilding the text then convert to curves and do the "add", it worked. In hindsight I could have done the add to all the outside curves and then subtract the insides. But that's a lot of selecting for a long text.

How do I do that? I need to export a file to shapes and I'm running into hurdles. I wish to combine words into a single item (shape or curve, whatever the terminology is) to keep them connected. Previous experience showed me that grouping is not always treated the same across platforms and applications so I want them combined to a single item. I have text with an o and an A which has been converted to curves. Any way of combining the letters either deletes the inside shapes or deletes the letters entirely. Ending up with a filled circle and a triangle with legs. What am I doing wrong here?

I've got the same problem, the erratic printer behavior. Printing on an Epson WorkForce printer. I'm trying to print 2 copies of a design to a portrait A5 sheet. Paper size parameter is only the size, have to select lanscape/portrait in another box, it shows the wrong preview (landscape) even though the setting is portrait from the start. Have to select landscape and back to portrait to get the preview right. If I select 2 copies and 2 per page it flips orientation to landscape and reduces the size of the print even though the scale is still 100%. And still only shows one item in the preview and prints one print. One of the things of Apple I still don't understand. Or maybe it's Epson, the printer has several other niggles like often showing Portuguese text in my Dutch language printer.

I guess I'll have to make do with Inkscape.

So... How is this coming along? I have a drawing made in AD that combines and subtracts a couple of ellipses and has some outlines. It's been expanded twice. The result is thousands of nodes in the outside outline. Totally un-editable. Manual reduce is inefficient and often inaccurate. I wonder how hard it is to add a reduce nodes feature. CorelDraw 3, about 25 years ago, did this quite well enough and had a slider to choose the reduction/accuracy ratio. It's been requested 6 years ago. Is it really that hard? I can't fathom how anyone using lines can do without it...

Awesome tool. But where do I find the Dimensioning Palette? I'm so clueless... First one I tried somehow the text turned gray. Put both the fill and outline to black the colour palette said were black but it was still gray. ungrouped them, transformed to curves, still gray. Just started over. And how can I extend just one of the legs?

I think I found how I got the background transparent. I think I imported the drawing from .eps or .svg. Background transparent is standard for importing.

Can one set a scale on a Designer drawing? How? I'll Google it some more. Did that, not found it yet. I'd love to have scale and dimension tools.

Yep. Need it!! Both of it, scale and dimensions.

Yep. Need it!! AND a way to adjust the drawing to scale. So that I can measure meters on an A4 page.

Yep. Need it!! This thread is 5 years old and Serif doesn't appear to care. PLEASE prove me wrong!

Of course. Grid. Where's the facepalm emoji when you need it. Thanks for the fast reaction!