[How to make margins NON PRINTABLE on dartboard?]

hmmmm maybe actually let me play around with this and see.  If it works Ill get back to you thank you for your suggestion

[Can I make a designated area on an artboard where design elements CAN NOT be placed?]

Hello!

I want to make A4 size artboards, where a designated space, say, 10mm on the right edge and bottom edge of the page can NOT hold design elements, and therefore will print and export BLANK.

So if I place a design element over multiple boards, the element will split up between all printable areas, without entering the blank space in between. 

I have played around with margin and bleed unsuccessfully.

I will attach a photo below, where I have tried to do such unsuccessfully.

So you can understand, I want the A4 pages to be printed, and glued or cellotaped together to create a larger page size.

I have AF Designer and Publisher, but I am speaking primarily in Designer.  Happy to try in publisher if anyone knows a way to make this work.

 

Thanks!

 

 

[How to make margins NON PRINTABLE on dartboard?]

Hi Old Bruce,

 

Thankyou I think I was.  Ive changed to using bleed now, but the same thing is still happening when I export the image.  Design elements are being printed in the 10mm bleed area.  I will post a photo of my exported PDF 

[How to make margins NON PRINTABLE on dartboard?]

Hello.

I have margins set up on my artboards to 10mm bottom and right.  The blue guidelines show the margins are set up.

When printing, and/or exporting to PDF, the design elements that fall into the margin, still print.  

Does anyone know how I can stop this from happening?  I want any design elements that fall outside of the margin to move into the next printable area.

 

Pic of the exported PDF to show what I mean.

Thanks :)

[Align stroke to outside - help]

Hi,

I can't seem to get my stroke to align to the outside of my original lines, no matter what I try.  The original line is always centre of my stroke (as pictured).

I am trying to get a replica line 36pts away from the original line.

So I set the points, ensure the align to outside stroke is selected, expand the stroke, but its only half the distance I truly want.

Any help appreciated

[Make Blend tool]

+1 blend tool!

[Joining curves on an entire shape at one time - help!]

Yes!

[Using the blend tool to find a median line(s) ... as seen on illustrator]

Hi!  Im wondering if there is a tool similar to the blend tool on illustrator which will create a median path (or as many as specified) between two parallel paths ?

Such as seen in the screenshots of this YouTube video...

 

Thanks

[Joining curves on an entire shape at one time - help!]

Hmm yes this is similar to the best I have achieved so far also.  Im wondering, when you did this, how did you get the nodes to join on the first click.  When I select all my nodes, I have to first break them before I can join them, and even then they all join to random parts of each other

 

[Joining curves on an entire shape at one time - help!]

I believe so.  It isn't always perfect but it seems to follow a similar path to lines before it.

[Joining curves on an entire shape at one time - help!]

Hi I have a pattern piece and would like to join the gaps seamlessly in one step.  Can this be done?  On illustrator you simply highlight the piece and command J (Join) .  So far I have had to manually click the node on each point, then select break curve, then join curve.  And even so, the shape doesn't follow a similar path as previously, it simply give me a straight line between the two nodes.  Can anyone help?  I will attach an example of my image where I am trying to connect nodes, and an image from YouTube where they have successfully done this using illustrator.  

 

Thanks

[When joining curves, my strokes become thicker in some places. How can I edit the stroke so it is consistent all around?]

Hi, my original pattern was in 0.5pt width.  After enlarging I needed to join the curves.  When I did that the line as a whole became thicker in some places.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  I will post my example below.

 

Thanks