[Automation on Affinity Publisher]

For everyone (like me) looking for this in the future: There's now a built-in solution called the "Data Merge Manager":

https://affinityspotlight.com/article/populate-pages-in-an-instant-with-affinity-publishers-powerful-data-merge-manager/

[AFP+AFD: Repeat last action shortcut key]

On 8/16/2019 at 5:43 AM, Amitashi said:

Ctrl+J

https://vimeo.com/110124748

https://youtu.be/EHQkqsTHy14

I was wondering, why this thread is continuing after this answer here. Ctrl + J does exactly do what is requested (although its labeling with "Duplicate Selection" doesn't really show that it'll repeat the last action as well).

[Losing spot colour on export]

I think I found a fix for this, which got mentioned in a different thread:

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- Publisher considers spot inks as "unsupported features" when you export PDF. This converts all you vector works (external documents placed) with spot inks to images, even with PDFX 3 preset. Disabling "convert to image unsupported features" allows to export your linked vector files with spot inks.

 

I don't know if it works in the mentioned case above, but I had the issue of exporting a custom brush stroke with a spot color which always got converted to CMYK. The solution was like mentioned in the thread to set the Rasterize Option to "Nothing" during export:

[Fill color of object bleeds past stroke set to inline]

Thank you for your response! Although of course, really not what I had hoped to hear. This basically makes inline strokes unusable.

42 minutes ago, anon2 said:

This is a limitation of the rendering engine rather than a bug and it is found in many apps. It may be many years until the Affinity team come up with an improvement.

I have used different (both paid and open source) vector manipulation software in the past and none of them had this issue, but I guess it comes down to this:

45 minutes ago, anon2 said:

an inside-aligned (and outside-aligned) stroke actually being implemented as a separate filled shape rather than a true stroke

So why is it that way? I guess there are are plenty of good reasons to do it this way (and accept other downsides therefore).

47 minutes ago, anon2 said:

I would say export a super-sized (for example, 800%) raster image and then resample that to the 100% size; that will make the hairline artefacts unnoticeable. 
Unfortunately, that invokes a rendering bug which produces spikes on the inside edge of the rasterised pseudo stroke.

Thank you for this possible workaround, that's not usable in a professional environment though, I don't really want to trade one bug for another.

I guess for now I just have to avoid inline strokes completely...

[Fill color of object bleeds past stroke set to inline]

I noticed that when the stroke of an object is set to inline that the fill color of that object is clearly bleeding through behind the stroke. I don't think that's supposed to be as it would mean the stroke is not aligned properly with the border of the object. As you can see this also transfers to exports and is not just a visual glitch. In my example image I have a simple circle, filled with black and on top of that a smaller circle with a white fill and a black stroke set to inline. You can clearly see the white bleed on the border of the inner circle. The bleed also changes with the color of the inner circle's fill. Is there any settings I might have wrong to fix this or is this a bug?

[Affinity Designer - Create Scribble Effect?]

12 hours ago, v_kyr said:

fills would then have to be emulated in some other suitable and vector complient way

Are those examples somehow integrateable with Affinity? It looks like they are more web based solutions and I don't really want to code my graphics

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

I had a play around for half an hour or so and managed to come up with this in Photo

Thank you so much for your effort! I wouldn't mind using a different Affinity App (or really any other App) but I need to recreate pretty much the exact style I mentioned as it's part of a Corporate Design. So unfortunately I don't have much room for variations... really appreciate your help, though!

[Affinity Designer - Create Scribble Effect?]

@v_kyr I was thinking about the same thing, but that wouldn't work for fills or did I miss something there?

[Affinity Designer - Create Scribble Effect?]

@v_kyr Thanks for your reply, I saw this thread as well, was just hoping for a different result to this question after 4 years... 😬

[Affinity Designer - Create Scribble Effect?]

In the vector based image manipulation software I currently try to replace with Affinity Designer, there is an effect called "Scribble" which lets one easily style fills and strokes in a scribbled look. Length, width and all that are customizable and they allow to create elements like the one in the image attached. I couldn't find such an effect in Designer so far, so did I miss it, or is there a way to recreate this effect with different methods?