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Dave Harris

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  1. Dave Harris
    Export will convert the colours to the destination profile.
  2. Dave Harris
    The current Mac App Store version does now include previews in its Typography panel, and this now supports OpenType features for All Alternates and Stylistic Alternates. We still need a way to browse all the glyphs in a font, that works for all fonts even if they don't do OpenType; that will come in due course.
  3. Dave Harris
    Are you setting the language for Norwegian text to Norway? If you don't have Norwegian dictionaries, you can set it to None.
  4. Dave Harris
    If the laser cutter supports Illustrator 8, it may support EPS. If it doesn't support it directly, it's worth trying producing an EPS file anyway and changing the extension to .ai to see if that works.
  5. Dave Harris
    PDF is a richer format so will usually be better. It can support transparency and blend modes, for example, which EPS. Also, currently our EPS import converts text into curves, so they aren't editable as text.
  6. Dave Harris
    Yes. It's not ideal because it is based on Artboards; true multi-page support will be coming later. If you know you are designing for multiple pages, you would create an Artboard for each page at the beginning. Then there'd be no need to copy anything and the workflow is quite straightforward. I don't see how using groups would be better. How would we tell which groups were being used for grouping and which for pages? How would things like margins and bleed work?
  7. Dave Harris
    There is a spell checker. It can underline mis-spelt words as you type. If this isn't working, check that it is enabled (Text > Spelling > Check Spelling While Typing) and that the caret is not in the mis-spelt word (it waits until you have finished typing the word before checking it). Then check that the text language is set as you expect, at the bottom of the Character Studio tab. Imported text can sometimes get its language set to None, in which case it cannot detect spelling errors. You can also check the document in batch mode if you prefer, using options in the Text > Spelling menu. The spell checker uses the standard OS X dictionaries. Madame, what do you find disturbing about it?
  8. Dave Harris
    For basic stroke colour, fill, font face etc, this is already implemented. Set up the defaults as you like and then use Edit > Defaults > Save. These are object defaults rather than tool defaults.
  9. Dave Harris
    Neither of our apps supports importing text on curves from PSD files. The reason is that PSD is an under-documented format, and we've not been able to figure out how the path text is represented just from looking at examples. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but unless Adobe make their file formats public (or someone in our office has a brainwave) this is unlikely to change.
  10. Dave Harris
    File > Export should have a line saying whether anything will be rasterised.
  11. Dave Harris
    The only way to change the object defaults for new documents is by Edit > Defaults > Save. I take it that's what you mean when you say it continued with new projects. If that's what happened, then it is what you told it to do. There are no keyboard shortcuts for that menu option, and no other way of doing it other by selecting the option from the menu. Within a document, the defaults update continuously. If you create a rectangle, turn it red, and create another rectangle, it too will be red. Similarly if you create text and change its font. It'd be annoying to repeatedly have to set the font you want every time you create text, so Affinity remembers.
  12. Dave Harris
    We don't do smart quotes or similar yet. You get the characters you typed. It's something we will add later. Although we don't have a glyph browser either, we do support Stylistic Alternates and All Alternates with a preview, which may help with some fonts. Again, we're aware of the need and will add it in due course.
  13. Dave Harris
    It sounds like you changed the object defaults. Edit > Defaults > Factory Reset will restore them to a sane default. There are other options there to set them from the current selection, to store them for new documents and to reset them to what you last stored.
  14. Dave Harris
    Does it have a big embedded document? We had enough bugs with exporting embedded documents that we reverted to the Mac App Store behaviour of rasterising them.
  15. Dave Harris
    Do you have the leading (either per-paragraph or per-character) or the space above/below paragraph set to a large number?
  16. Dave Harris
    No. We plan to do that eventually, but not soon.
  17. Dave Harris
    It's a bug, recently introduced. The path text doesn't have a proper frame to carry the handles. It'll be fixed in the next beta. Path text created since the bug was introduced will need its path tweaked with the Node tool to get the frame back.
  18. Dave Harris
    Illustrator appears to be getting confused by the SVG viewBox and the units somehow. I tried a quick test and got "stroke-width:20.83px" in the SVG, but Illustrator turned the width into 20.83pt. It also got the document size wrong. If I use Export > SVG > More and uncheck Set viewBox, then Illustrator gets both the document size and the stroke width right. I suggest you try unchecking that option and see if you get better results. The stroke Scale with object setting only affects how strokes are affected when you resize within Affinity. It doesn't affect export. As Bripmd says, I believe our SVG export is correct because other apps interpret it correctly.
  19. Dave Harris
    Thanks. In the next beta, the layer name should paste as intended rather than appear blank and break PDF export.
  20. Dave Harris
    Could you elaborate on that?
  21. Dave Harris
    Thanks. This should be fixed in the next beta.
  22. Dave Harris
    The PDF should look the same as in AD, and if it doesn't that's a bug. If you can attach or send us an example file we can look into it.
  23. Dave Harris
    Bleed marks (and the bleed area itself) is currently only for printing and PDF export, not for screen. We'll add on-screen support in a future update (which may be after Christmas now).
  24. Dave Harris
    The current beta supports layers. Your document became one big image for a different reason, which has now been fixed in the 1.3.5.14 RC4 beta.
  25. Dave Harris
    What do you mean by "layers"? Photoshop users sometimes use that word to mean any kind of object, and some users use it mean a particular kind of object used for grouping and structure. I think you intend the second meaning. In which case, the Mac App Store version of PDF export does not preserve layers, but the current beta does, if they have names and are visible, and the version of PDF you are exporting to supports them (which is all except PDF 1.4).
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