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I'm not sure how to do a screen cast but if anyone out there with V2 on a Mac wants to have a go at this (looking at you Affinity support) knock yourselves out!

Ok, thanks. I'm slowly working through this. It looks like when I declared a spot colour and then had to subsequently edit that colour (by right clicking the spot col on the panel) it stops being a spot colour. Im not sure why this is but the little spot vanishes after changing the spot colour. I just assumes once the spot col was declared, it would stay that way. Have I missed something?

I've declared a couple of spot colours in a document - they appear in the document pallet but when I export the document as a pdf and examine it in Acrobat (print production --> output preview), no spot colours are listed. I've obviously chosen "honour spot colours" in the export dialog. What do I have to do to get this working?

Thx, I just discovered that and am playing with it right now! Hopefully that will be an answer!

I did find that earlier on but it just saves the window position relative to the monitor and not to the app window! If the app window is moved or scaled, the unfixed panels will appear in the same place.

Thanks Walt, you're right - I was talking about the Studio panels and not the tools! Sorry for the confusion, and yes, I'm on a Mac and you can't seem to make a second panel column. They do float and are a pain because when you resize the app, the tools stay where they are relative to the display and not the app. I can't even see any way to save a layout..

Yes but isn't this only for the tool icons on the left? I need to columns of tool palettes on the right!

I've seen a couple of vids on YT where there appears to be two columns of tools on the right of the screen. Try as I might, I can't replicate that. Has this feature now gone?

Ok, what has Chat GPT got to do with it? May as well ask Burger King to fix the problem!

I love the Affinity suite. I’ve used it for a few years now but over the past few months I’ve found that nearly every printer that I’m sending PDF files to is coming back saying that they’re unusable when imported back into Illustrator (which they ALL use) for pre-press. When the pdf is opened in Illustrator, all they see are a baffling set of clip groups, nested layers, no transparency etc. Pre-Press departments don’t have the time or the inclination to deal with a 50 layer document that should really be a 7 layer, well labelled and organised pdf and so they reject it. Strangely, when the pdf is opened in Acrobat viewer on my Mac, the layers are there and readable but sadly not in Illustrator at the print shop. Sadly, after a few years of using the Affinity Suite and feeling like there’s finally an alternative, I’ve had to return to reality and subscribe to Creative Cloud because I need to eat. My last two jobs that were done on AD and rejected by 2 printers have now been submitted using Illustrator and printed with no issues whatsoever. I hope that Affinity can sort their PDF output out but I don’t remember having these issues when I was using V1.x.

YES! That's it. Thanks lacerto, that seems to work perfectly!

Damn! So the only way to achieve this is to cut the shape out using subtract, if pdf export is the final destination?

Still need the edibility of the yellow rectangle, not just the shape destructively cut out of the larger rectangle! It looks like using the the Erase blend mode is not recognised / unsupported by the pdf conversion but can't be sure

oh wait, there's no yellow rectangle with an erase mode anymore! That's cheating!!

Woohoo, YES! How did you do it??

Anyone tried to export to pdf?

Hi all, I'm trying to use a mask (instead of Subtract shape) to make some labels for a client which have a metallic (foil) substrate and various cutouts to show the metal underneath using the 'erase' option on the blending mode dropdown. Its all working quite well until I export to pdf and then it all falls apart. I've done a VERY simple AD document (attached) that shows what's happening. Can anyone tell me how to get around this issue please? The doc has 2 layers and I need both of those on the pdf and be able to turn them on and off in the pdf layers panel just like in AD. Right now, it doesn't work at all. Im using pdf 1.7 and including layers on export. Any help would be appreciated as this is forcing me to head back to AI, which I absolutely want to avoid.. test.afdesign

This doesn't seem to work with AD..

This is still (jan 2023) not available. Please make this happen

Thank you Thomaso! That fixed it!!

Hi, Should have said that its a V2 file. I did import it into Publisher to do a table but never touched the artistic text tool. I actually just imported it back into AP and its the same in there - no background for the text but it still shows a background. I can't really show more of the artwork as its client artwork and there are maybe 30 layers in the layers panel. Not sure what this would show! What is a 'ADe' file?

I'm working on a document for a client and all of a sudden, when I create some Artistic text, I get a white background to the text. I have no idea where this came from and if you look at the attached pic, the background is supposed to be clear! This happens EVERY TIME I create artistic text but ONLY for this document! If I create a new, blank document and insert more Artistic text, it's all good and the background colour setting is obeyed. For now, Im having to create the text in another blank doc and then importing it into the original document - not a great solution but I just can't figure out where this is coming from. Any of you guys have any ideas?

oops, I found out how! Oh, just saw the reply, thanks!

Hi fiolks I installed a bunch of junky styles in AD just to see what they were about but now need two remove the ones that I don't need. How to I remove them from the program?

Tbh, I’ve never had an issue with jpgs in CMYK. Printed a zillion labels, catalogues etc. Using V2 the first time on a label and this happened. Will try again