Gianni Becattini

Hello, I am trying to import a drawing from Illustrator to AD. I have tried and tried (previous versions, pdf...) but the shadows are imported always as a full black (see attach). Am I doing something wrong or it is just so? Have I to manually redesign it? Thanks

I am using version 1.8.6 and the problem seems still there. It seems that white or black it is the same (they make the effect apply). Only transparent make the effect not to apply. Am I doing something wrong?

I am sorry I was not clear. I fully agree and nobody asks that a Company supports its products for ever. But my case is different: I am using the original hardware and the original operating systems. Adobe does not make any longer possible the activation process that fails without a reason and says "contact Adobe" (that does nothing to solve the problem). According my opinion that is not by chance but a precise decision. For some of them I could find a pirate copy... to do what I payed for (and for a "perpetual license", by the way...) From my side, I decided to start canceling Adobe licenses in my Company.... I am evaluating if it is possible to use instead Serif products. Up to now I already switched globally to Affinity Publisher and will do the same for Affinity Photo. The only really missing function for us is "select subject". We will keep a CC license just for editing old documents. For Designer I am still thinking but it seems possible, because we never pass outside the documents that we use only inside our publications or inside PowerPoint. So the ai format is not critical in our case. Furthermore, when you can forget years of practice with Adobe, I find the Affinity UI in general more modern, logic and intuitive and hope that they in the future correct the oddities and the problems that they still have, so as Affinity products have also improvements that we too often forget.

I understand that this is off topic. Please ban me if you think so, but this question was really fun. I still have everything: CDs, DVDs and keys. My licenses are still on the Adobe site. I have the original boxes and invoices. Simply the products cannot be activated. You could say: what should it be for? They are old and cannot any longer be useful. Besides that that is a matter of mine, I am a little, stupid Mac collector. I own more than 30 of them and I should like to equip them with the original software that I expensively BOUGHT... At first they said that I had stolen the software. But how do you explain that I am on your web site as a regular user? Ehm, ehm... perhaps you... I had a very long interaction with them but at the end I... simply lost. In Italy we have thousand of laws but no Law and a legal suite against them would cost an unreasonable amount. The point is not my insignificant problem, but the fact that big software houses have no respect at all of their Customers and, albeit a newbie user, I think I feel that Serif/Affinity is somewhat different.

I understand the problems, however I sincerely appreciate Affinity products, especially for their spirit behind. I am a rather particular case: I am the managing director of a technology company. I am not a professional graphic designer but I personally manage all the graphics of my Company with some results. It is something like an hobby, started because no professional could meet what I expected from her/him. I have no budget problems for the software and I obviously pay the license for the Adobe suite. But since I have the Affinity suite, I try to use only that. And in some way, at the end of the day, I could do everything that I wanted. I understand that for a professional it can be in some way expensive to have a less powerful tool, but from my point of view Affinity has a very big potential and I believe right to encourage this Company in its adventure. Furthermore, every time I had any relationship with Adobe, I finished angry... I also have some old (payed) CS suite: they no longer work and no one in Adobe would help me.Not so important but... shows total customers contempt. On the contrary, any time that I need something about Affinity tools I place a question here and I immediately get a friendly, kind and competent reply. Not bad at all.

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I am trying to draw on the layer mask but as World View said "the rectangle doesn't appear on the mask. It gets its own layer, masking off EVERYTHING, not just the layer on the mask." In AI it is very simple: I select the mask and I can write on it normally. What am I doing wrong?

The method described by Diogo Junior did not work for me. I understand that AD was a nice dream to escape with a beautiful lover but now I must return home to my rich and cruel wife AI...

Thank you very much! Only for my curiosity: why adding the noise? someone finds it nice or it is for technical reasons?

Yes, the noise

Sure, thanks! Senza nome.afdesign

I am not sure that "blurry" is the correct English word but I cannot understand if object styles must to be so ugly or if I have some wrong setup in the video section (I tried different setups with no change). See attachment please. Thanks!

Thanks also to you GarryP!

Thanks!

Can I warp a text box as e.g. I do with a rectangle (add knot, move knot etc.). With the rectangle I use "Convert to curve" and then use the white arrow. With text boxes it seems not to work in the same manner (as instead I can do with AI). Thanks for your patience.

I agree, why this silly grey? I have to change it every time I use the tool.

Wow, thanks!

I am trying to do something that is very easy with AI. I need to draw electric wires (see attachment). With AD I am not able to make the gradient to follow the line but only to consider the line as shape (see attachment). Am I not capable or there is a limit in AD? Thanks and forgive me if the question is stupid.

Wow, it works! Yes, it makes things a bit more complicated, but I believe that is a small price to pay for independence from Adobe... Thank you very much!

Wow, it works! Yes, it makes things a bit more complicated, but I believe that is a small price to pay for independence from Adobe... Thank you very much!

Sorry but I don't agree. If I have correctly understood, it works only when you have exactly the same text layout on all the pages. Am I wrong? I see also that 1.9 seems not to offer this feature...

In Indesign I have a layer for each language. When I want to publish in one language, I switch it on and the other languages off. In Affinity Publisher, it seems that layers have only a local scope in the current page, but I cannot have levels that are present in all the pages. Is it right? It is a pity, I am trying to pass to Affinity for everything and I succeed in everything but this. But that is a too big limitation. I really would to leave Adobe but I can't. Thank for the help from anybody.

I agree, not a good welcome for a new user from Photoshop. My first operation with Affinity and immediately a disappointment. I hope it is not everything so...