Dave Harris
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I doubt its documented anywhere yet. Currently it causes gradient fills and transparency groups to be rasterised, and text with a stretch and stroke to be converted to curves. If we come across other issues with other apps, I'll probably add them to the same checkbox.
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That checkbox was added in the previous beta, and if you had checked it then, you'd have got the error message then. I'm guessing you didn't, because I didn't highlight that the checkbox was added then.
The checkbox is to work around limitations of Illustrator. You should only check it if you are creating PDFs to be used directly for printing, or for Acrobat or some other app that understands PDF correctly. Then it will produce smaller, better quality output. But if you load those files into Illustrator, Illustrator will issue warnings and/or render them wrongly. We can't fix Illustrator; we can only simplify our output until it understands it.
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That's something I'd like to do, but I don't know when I'll get time to do it. It'd have to be an option, because changing the colour space would change the appearance of the embedded document.
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The checkbox switches off the PDF features that Illustrator doesn't understand. Currently that means rasterising fills and transparency groups, and converted the text to curves. If we find other limitations of other apps, I'll probably put them on the same checkbox. So yes, if you check it you will get the warning messages back.
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The current Customer Beta will export embedded documents as vector, as long as they use the same colour space as the host document, and have a transparent background. You can try the beta now, or wait for the next Mac App Store update in a few months.
I just tried it with your sample document. All the documents use sRGB, but I had to make the embedded backgrounds transparent. That step isn't necessary for documents that are inserted with the beta, but is for documents inserted with older versions. With that step done, they did export as vector.
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If you select the symbol in Font Book, copy it, then paste it into Affinity, does that work?
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Matt, it would be useful to allow individual, per-color overprint, not just limit it to black... Also it might be good to have that set up via the swatches palette as well... awesome work!
We plan to do that. The UI wasn't ready for this beta. However, we felt that overprinting black by default would be a useful feature in addition to per-colour black, and it happened to get completed first.
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Thanks for overprinting anf spli view support!!
Overprinting is only for black, currently. The UI for other colours should be added soon.
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Why do you want text that you can't see?
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Art text that is both stretched and stroked isn't imported by Illustrator correctly. As a workaround you can convert it to curves yourself, either manually per-object just before exporting, or else by setting Embed fonts to Text as Curves. In the next beta it will be converted to curves automatically (unless Allow advanced features is checked).
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Just downloaded the new beta. It crashes when importing a PDF file. The current version opens it normally. I cannot attach the PDF file because of copyright, but I send it to support team if necessary.
Thanks for the file. This crash will be fixed in the next beta.
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Hi, Christen. Welcome to the Affinity forums.
I'm afraid we can't currently export text as text to PSD. This will take us a while to add. It's hard to ensure that PhotoShop's placement of text exactly matches ours.
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Hi Jens. Welcome to the Affinity forums.
You can convert any shape into a text frame, but it will lose its stroke and fill. You can duplicate the original shape first if you want to keep them.
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Is this with the customer beta? The Mac App Store version doesn't support PDF/X yet. The beta does, and it should handle transparency correctly.
Actually PDF/X3 doesn't support transparency natively, but Affinity will rasterise any transparent areas so the document looks the same. PDF/X4 does support transparency and may be a better version to use if your printer supports it.
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It depends on whether the text stretched. If you look in the Character tab, the Movie Magic text has a Horizontal Scale of 95%. If you change it to 100%, Illustrator can cope.
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Wow. The stroke being put to the bottom is an Illustrator bug. It just doesn't handle stroked text well. Even normally, it splits the text into individual characters, and then splits those into separate filled and stroked layers, making it hard to edit as text. If the text is also stretched, it draws the stroke in completely the wrong place. It's all in the PDF as a single object and there is no earthly reason for it to draw stroke and fill in different places.
I think the only workaround for this is to convert the text to curves in this situation. The old, Core Graphics export didn't need to do that, but I notice using that Illustrator gets the stroke weight wrong.
The other issues are our fault. They should be fixed in the next beta.
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We support thin strokes. If you enter 0.001pt, the user interface will display it rounded as 0pt, but it uses 0.001pt internally and if you zoom in far enough (x500,000%) you should see the line being drawn. (In the next release, you will be able to the decimal places used for points so it displays the 0.001pt too.)
What format are you exporting to? In SVG we restrict the precision to 0.01px.
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Text is edited with the Art text tool or the Frame text tool. Select either text tool and click on the text where you want the I-bar to be.
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The JPEG options have a checkbox for Progressive, just below Quality. This is available both from the Export persona, Export Options tab, and from File > Export > JPEG > More.
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The intent of Small Caps is that capital letters remain large, and lower case letters become small. So the first letter will only be larger if it is a capital. Are you using a mix of capital and lower case letters?
If so, then the second thing to check is whether you have All Small Caps selected instead, which does affect all letters the same. If you are using the Typography panel, this has a separate option. If you are using the Character tab, then having both Small Caps and All Caps selected will produce All Small Caps.
Finally, if the font supports Small Caps directly, we use its implementation, and depending on the font it might have got it wrong.