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Dave Harris

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  1. Dave Harris
    It does look like PDF export is badly broken, I'm afraid. It's not getting its colour profiles right. As a result it either uses a default CMYK profile (even if you are trying to export to RGB), or else (for PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4) it just crashes. Either way isn't really usable. If you are crashing, then CTRL+runup with Clear User Defaults checked will reset the dialog so it doesn't open on the PDF page so you can at least export as something else. You can still output a PDF by using File > Print > PDF > Save as PDF..., albeit without any of the new features. I'm very sorry about this. We'll get it fixed in the next update.
  2. Dave Harris
    File > Export supports embedding profiles in PNG; it's one of the extra options you get if you click the More button. You can save this as a preset if its something you always want.
  3. Dave Harris
    I'm afraid that's not going to happen this year. However, the current Customer Beta does support global/linked colours, which should help, especially if you are able to create your characters using linked colours in the first place. The Customer Beta is available from here.
  4. Dave Harris
    One way is to right-click on an object and use Add to Swatches... > From Fill as Global. Another is to use the Swatches page, click on the to-right hamburger menu and use Add Global Colour. They are applied as normal colours. Currently the Add to Swatches method does not change the colour of the object you clicked on, so you probably will want to immediately re-apply it.
  5. Dave Harris
    At the moment printing does not try to place one artboard per page, as you might expect. Instead it outputs a single large page with all the artboards at once. You can see this if you enable "Scale to fit". Does that explain what you are seeing?
  6. Dave Harris
    Yeah, that's a bug we'd noticed. For now you should be able to select the artboard itself and give it a white fill. It's not quite right (blend modes will interact with it when they wouldn't with a document background) but it may help. We plan to implement multi-page documents, which will include two-page spreads, facing pages and the like. Artboard aren't really that. You can re-arrange them yourself if you want to.
  7. Dave Harris
    It's supposed to work now, for PDF using Whole Document. I just tried it and it did work for me. Do all your individual artboards export OK? Perhaps there is some other PDF export issue not related to this.
  8. Dave Harris
    The GPL covers plugins. Basically, what we would want to do is exactly what the GPL doesn't want people to do.
  9. Dave Harris
    In today's Customer Beta (1.3.5.7), the Typography panel has been improve to show all available Stylistic Alternates (and Access All Alternates, Swashes and a few others). Also, it the options it offers are now specific to the characters currently selected, and there is a preview of what the alternates look like. The Customer Beta is available to those who have the full Mac App Store version installed, from here.
  10. Dave Harris
    The Inkscape licence is GPL v2. That means if we incorporated their code, we'd have to make Affinity open source too, which we don't intend to do.
  11. Dave Harris
    Pantone and spot colours have some support in the current Customer Beta, but it's still a bit buggy and incomplete. The next beta will be a lot better, and hopefully not many days away now. The Mac App Store version should have this by Christmas. It will also include PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, but not scripting. Until then, if you have the Mac App Store version installed, you can download and use the Customer Beta from here. Please do! We would welcome the feedback.
  12. Dave Harris
    In Acrobat Pro, under Edit > Preflight, it is one of a long list of scripts
  13. Dave Harris
    Are you exporting to a CMYK colour space? How are you checking for overprint? I just tried this myself, using "List page objects, grouped by type of object", and my box does have "overprint: on" for its stroke.
  14. Dave Harris
    Lojza, I just tried copying and pasting ĚÊ from your post into the current Photo beta and both displayed correctly. This also worked with the Mac App Store version. I was using Arial. Perhaps there is an issue specific to a particular font?
  15. Dave Harris
    You can use Select All and change the stroke scaling for all objects at once. You can also change the default for new objects, and new documents.
  16. Dave Harris
    We hope to update the Mac App Store before Christmas this year.
  17. Dave Harris
    We're reluctant because the apps have a lot in common, so there would be a lot of duplication across the forums and it would get harder to find stuff through having more places to look.
  18. Dave Harris
    Use File > Export > PNG > More, tick the Palettised box and select the number of colours you want. It seems to have a bug getting a blue background at the moment, which we'll get fixed, but it is part of the core functionality already.
  19. Dave Harris
    Thanks. I see what is going wrong. I'll try to get it fixed for the next beta.
  20. Dave Harris
    That's what the Centre Align button does. It's in the middle of the text context toolbar. You can also use Text > Alignment > Align Centre, or CMD+|.
  21. Dave Harris
    Hopefully before Christmas.
  22. Dave Harris
    We also have a lot of openness through our customer beta programme. Often you can see the state of a new feature changing as it gets developed, months before it hits the Mac App Store.
  23. Dave Harris
    This is a known bug that will be fixed in the next beta.
  24. Dave Harris
    No, there's no progress on this. It sounds like an Affinity Publisher feature.
  25. Dave Harris
    It turns out that this is what the font's OpenType implementation does. It works in Pages because Pages doesn't use OpenType for this. We also have our own implementation for when the font doesn't support Small Caps, but if the font does support it, I think we want to use its implementation without meddling, rather than try to second-guess what the font designer intended. I can only suggest you remove the Small Caps feature from the capital letters by hand.
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