This was bugging me for a while too, but you can workaround. Select the path in PS (1), hit the button "Add Layer mask" (2) from the Path panel and then click the button for Vectormask (3) in the Properties panel and save the file as PSD or TIF. See the screenshot (unfortunately only in German).
most of the catalogs that I create have pantone colors as a background, how do you manage transparency with Photoshop even using PSDs without having huge files?
Using tif and flattened images with the clipping path I have on average smaller files avoiding saving psd with transparency (which moreover can give problems on pantones with unexpected results).
For this reason I don't think it is such an old method, in fact, in my opinion it is the best thing and there is practically perfect compatibility between the various programs ... apart from the AFFINITY suite
Hi @eric u,
Apologies for the delayed response here!
It sounds as though the following 'No Style' options are what you're looking for, these can be found on the Context toolbar -
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The two would be helpfull, and if the apps were able to retain those information, we would be able to have a new option to modify simples "Styles" that would be usefull, instead of creating a new one and trying to apply it at the object using the previous style.
It would allow the asked for feature: "select items using the same [Style"|Stroke|Background colour…].
Accoring to the use I have of DTP apps since the 90’, it's really usefull and needed, we use and do a lot of tricks to reuse documents or part of their styles to not create again the wheel each time, and it can be part of a giant puzzle.
The search and replace panel is the one I don't like because of the need to click on cogs to look at option in differents dropdown menus. ID's panel for this is more user friendly and fast to use. (But other panels are visuals and easier to access than ID's, like the Effects).
Since APub dupplicate easily the Text styles when you import a RTF/DOCX document — there's no way we can have perfect and similar Styles in the 2-3 apps —, and we can't use those imported styles without tweeking or adjusting them.
At some point, when you've created the perfect template with the perfect styles, you need to place/import or paste your RTF/DOCX text in APub, and you end up with all the styles duplicated.
I replaced them with Search and replace… it take time and was a pain. When I had to import again for a second book and do it again, I wasn't really happy about the process. Perhaps scripting will simplify those tasks, for those able to script, but a simple right-click delete-and-replace would have been a luxury and a good option (and we're used to this in QXD and ID).
I barely use "delete unused styles": if I create them, it's because they are needed, and it's not because a document won't use the Character style "italic" I created, that the next one won't need it. A template (there's few "one shots" in my work, we have usually many issues of a document) should provide all the needed Text styles, this way, if it's not the creator of the template that work with it, the coworker will find the needed Text style, without needing to create some that wouldn't respect the graphical chart of the document.
That's why you usually have more styles than used, and since you have before hand shown to the client different pages and options, differents master pages and rubrics and styles, "encadrés" (some colorful and specific text frames), the client has validated the principle, and you'll use them only in some issues, but they need to be kept in the template.
The only text styles you need to delete are the ones imported with the text, or dupplicated (after replacing them) by APub, or the ones you created by errors, it happens too .
I explained this above.
There's a lot of points where tha app isn't user friendly (like the unique Paragraph and Character styles panel, the contextual menu at the top that's unable to show all the options but sometimes hide them and need us to click on a button to check/access some options — no visual and easy step here —, some hidden options like the resized values of objects, no real Object styles we can modify with options like in the Text styles…), and can't provide a smooth workflow.
I play with it for tests and fun on my free time, but I wouldn't have been able to do the work I did in the last months in ID, in the allowed time that needed overtime to respect deadlines.
We don't always have time to work on a template for hours before doing the final projet, or you can have some designer else creating the template but not able to create it with the needed tips and tricks needed in real use.
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Managing Styles is important, and it should be easy, those options we ask are part of this. And better, at some point a table of concordances for importing or replacing styles would be good.
I am a Styles fiend and set them up for just about every document I do, but then I'll use the Eyedropper to quickly apply them around longer journals - particularly when I want to apply a Character Style on top of a Paragraph Style. I view them as two complimentary tools to allow me to complete the same process.
I must say though that I am very impressed that Styles come through on IDML imports - a huge time saver.
Holding Option while dragging (or Alt on Windows) is defined as making a copy and ignoring snapping. If you want to copy and still snap, i think you could use Cmd instead of Opt, as shown in the status bar.
