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pbasdf reacted to a post in a topic: Publisher text in a frame changing formatting
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MikeTO reacted to a post in a topic: Publisher text in a frame changing formatting
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Hi @R C-R I notice that the frame in question is identified in the layers panel as Shape Text, not a Text Frame. If (in AfPub 2.5.6) I create a shape and then convert it to Shape Text, it has the same problem - double clicking the blue dot does nothing. I'm not in the beta programme - @MikeTO could you check whether AF-4290 fixes it for Shape Text? Phil
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MikeTO reacted to a post in a topic: Is it possible to merge different text frames in a single text frame?
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In the case of your SVG import, you can merge the text into a single frame (in Publisher) by linking the frames, as follows: 1. Select the (art) text frames that you want to merge. 2. Right click and select "Convert to text frames". 3. Starting with the first frame in the sequence, click on the text-flow triangle on the right hand side of the frame. 4. Click on the next frame in the sequence. There is no apparent change, but the text is now in a single "story", flowing from the first frame to the second. 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to join frames 2 and 3, then 3 and 4, etc. 6. The text is now all one story, flowing from each frame to the next. 7. Delete all but the first frame. The text in the story will be intact, in the first frame, but it will overflow. 8. Resize the first frame to accommodate all the text. 9. Adjust leading or before/after spacing to get the lines in the right places. If you've got a lot of these to do, it might become quite tedious (or you might get into a rhythm...)
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Alfred reacted to a post in a topic: Artistic Text - What Have I Done to Change the Text?
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R C-R reacted to a post in a topic: Artistic Text - What Have I Done to Change the Text?
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One possibility - it looks like you might have swapped the fill and stroke colours: in the Context toolbar, the fill is showing as 'no fill', and in the Colour panel, the stroke is showing as black (and the fill as 'no fill'). Try switching them back by selecting the text and clicking the curved double-headed arrow above right of the two colour wells on the Colour panel.
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pbasdf reacted to a post in a topic: Affinity Photo macOS: restricting memory seems to have no effect on performance
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Ditto Bird reacted to a post in a topic: SOLVED: Colours Show Lighter On One File, Photo 2 - Suggestions?
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Having looked at the PDFs produced with different settings, I think the issue might be related to the dimensions of your page, ie. very wide. It looks like Affinity composes a single 'image' from all the images and then applies the Curves Adjustment to that one image. But I think that image is so wide it exceeds some internal limit (16384). The DPI is adjusted so that the 'image' is max 16384px wide. That's my guess as to what's happening. If it helps for your situation: if you apply the Curves adjustment to each image layer separately, then the result is seven separate images each at 150 dpi.
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4Candles reacted to a post in a topic: Exporting to PDF problems...
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Exporting to PDF problems...
pbasdf replied to 4Candles's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
You have selected 'All Spreads' in the 'Area' of the export settings, so APu generates a PDF in which each page is composed of a spread of 2 pages from the original document. If you change the Area to 'All Pages', your PDF should have a separate page for each page of the document. Sadly APu forgets this setting after each export, so one has to remember to change it every time. -
pbasdf reacted to a post in a topic: Reset text bounding box in Publisher?
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KLE-France reacted to a post in a topic: What is AP's WORKING color space?
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What is AP's WORKING color space?
pbasdf replied to KLE-France's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
This Spotlight article might be of interest: https://affinityspotlight.com/article/raw-actually/ In the paragraphs headed "Colour" it tells us -
amergin reacted to a post in a topic: Overlapping vector shapes create holes for some reason?
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Export to PDF file sizes vary
pbasdf replied to Gigatronix Pete's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Hi @Gigatronix Pete It looks like this is a consequence of the FX (Outer Shadow) applied to the 'PCB Connector' group that @carl123 has highlighted. I think what is happening is that the outer shadow is causing everything below it in the layer stack (which is everything except the title text) to be rasterised - into a single layer (hence the relatively small size of 28Mb). When you change the document size, the PCB Connector group is no longer within the canvas bounds, so it is not included and hence does not cause the rasterisation. Instead, all of the many layers that make up the 'Cables' group and the 'Connector Cable' group are included separately in the PDF. As there are many of them, and they are each quite high resolution, the file size grows to the whopping 228Mb. A quick fix would be to export using the 'PDF (Flatten)' preset (which will rasterise everything, including the title text). If that's no good, you could apply a similar Outer Shadow FX to the 'Cable Connector' group to cause that to rasterise independently of everything else (if you don't want a drop shadow on that group, just make the offset, radius and intensity all zero). Or you could copy that group (to preserve an editable copy) and then use Layer --> Rasterise. There may be better fixes others can suggest. -
Hi Steve, Difficult to tell from the video, but could this be a result of Publisher applying the same scale, rotation and relative placement to the new image as was applied to the old image? That's certainly behaviour that I experience and have to remedy. To save resetting them one by one, does this work: 1. Select the Picture Frame Tool (shortcut F) 2. Use Select --> Select Object --> Picture Frames (from the menu bar) 3. In the Context Tool Bar, select Properties and then set scaling and anchor for all the picture frames
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Might this work for your situation - leave the lines as black strokes, select them all and apply a Gradient Overlay FX? You can set the orientation to 90 degrees so the overlay is applied vertically. You can fine tune the FX on one line and then use Copy/Paste FX to apply it to all the others. There are a couple of downsides: 1. The "length" of the gradient is set relative to each particular object, so the "top" of a line will always be one end of the gradient and the "bottom" will be at the other end - even if the absolute height difference is much less than for the other lines. Even a perfectly horizontal line will have the top edge in one colour and the bottom edge the other (see pic). You might be able to finesse this with the scale and offset adjustments in the FX panel. 2. I believe using FX will result in rasterisation on export.