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  1. Fixx
    Because it does not show Affinity previews?
  2. Fixx
    I am not sure automation would produce good results in this kind of problem. I would prepare the template to accommodate reasonably long names/lines, and if there are lines that exceed prepared space I would correct those manually – to achieve good typography in those cases would require some creative design solutions any case.
  3. Fixx
    As you try to select an object onscreen you end up selecting the whole group. When objects are in layer-layer they can be selected simply by click or drag.
  4. Fixx
    Umm... as I fight one Designer project right now I notice grouping objects to a layer-group severely limits how I can choose objects within a group. So using a "layer-layer" makes them behave better but it has its own issues...
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    Swatch generated noise has a problem that you cannot adjust the cell size in any way. So at 300 dpi it tends to be rather unnoticeable. I guess it is meant more for onscreen works (72 dpi). If your artwork allows you could most as vectors (text, shapes) to keep it sharp and use lower document dpi so noise would be more apparent. Alternative is to do custom noise with noise filters (I guess you can up the cell size?).
  6. Fixx
    Different PDF tools handle this differently. I have apps that create OK paragraphs, with simple copy paste. Now, hyphenation is worse problem... that must be corrected with search-replace one by one (replace all would remove also rightly used hyphens).
  7. Fixx
    It is in the preferences. (Now I do not remember if you can toggle it live with modifier key?)
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    In Designer layers palette is more like list of objects. In Illustrator layers are organising tool. You can somewhat simulate Illustrator behaviour if you group sets of objects as a "master layers" and use those for organizing (turn on/off as needed... hmm is it possible to lock a parent layer?)
  9. Fixx
    Gotta say I do not much like the way eyedroppers and swatches palette function. I feel lost all the time.
  10. Fixx
    I would try XnConvert – https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/
  11. Fixx
    I print some art pieces prepared (mostly) in Affinity Photo with Epson 3880 (A2 size, Canson Edition Etching Rag 310 g/m²) with great results and outsource printing 70X100 cm size to bigger Epson SureColor SC-P9500 (with Hahnemuhle German Etching, 310gsm) with not so sure if great results (I think better definition in detail should be achievable..). I have to admit I do final adjustments in Photoshop.
  12. Fixx
    Problem is that Publisher can read IDML but IDML support was not introduced in InDesign until CS4. So you should open you INDD files with newer InDesign and export to IDML. Possibly you could install new CC trial and use that to open old files and export to IDML. You could use Peter Kahrel's Batch Convert script to do all files at one go.
  13. Fixx
    I think Voikko is not compatible with Affinity but read this thread, see if you can download right Hunspell dictionaries:
  14. Fixx
    Sure. Question was about Affinity Photo.
  15. Fixx
    Cropping is document operation, masking is what is done to layers.
  16. Fixx
    I wish there was a way. I posted a request a while back: This routine would be a real timesaver in project that have large amount of images of equal quality (and those of differing quality can be corrected manually).
  17. Fixx
    I suspect that is not very politically correct feature...
  18. Fixx
    Affinity apps do not require really powerful machines (IMHO). As long as you have 16 GB or more RAM everything should run fine.
  19. Fixx
    So you say merge operations rasterizes to upper layer dpi, not to document dpi? I generally do not merge layers until in export which I think produces acceptable output (but I am not sure does it really uses selected resample algorithm as base document is not resized).
  20. Fixx
    I just (ok, 3 weeks ago) wrote a spec for setting text size for CAD documents... and CAD specifies text size as height of cap size, while office and typographic apps use typographic size which is the ascender - descender measure plus some leading space --- that means typographic size can be anything that font designer specifies for his/her font.
  21. Fixx
    I do not think variable path thickness is available in PDF, SVG or EPS format so it is always converted to a filled path.
  22. Fixx
    Filesize of afpub file or exported PDF? What kind of images you have imported to layout?
  23. Fixx
    If you have image layer instead of pixel layer in your document you have placed images to your document, as layers. If you have selected document resolution wisely it will work OK. In rasterizing image layer the resolution converted to that of document resolution (as I have understood), which may mean that detail are lost if document resolution is lower. If lower resolution layer is then manipulated it is possible to get a lower quality image compared to that if manipulations had been done to original image layer. Anyway, if document resolution is right there should be no problems.
  24. Fixx
    If you do it once a week it is ok. If you do it daily, automated footnotes would save so much time that rental might make sense.
  25. Fixx
    Generally there is no gain in resampling up if images are initially low res. Some exotic tools can invent detail to images but that is still more like art than science.
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