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Hello, I have a question regarding the afpub file size. I tried to include a afdesign document into the afpub (set as linked in the File Manager), but after saving the afpub file is still huge. Is the linked file always saved with the document? Is there any way how to exclude linked files from saving and shrink the afpub file size? Thanks Petr

When adding Gradient Map and clicking on gradient colours to edit them, AD crashes.

Hi guys, just a few issues with bleeds when testing 1.7.0.3: It seems that bleeds are exported only when exporting all artboards at once. When exporting individual artboard to PDF, bleeds are not preserved. Also I did not find a way how to enable/disable bleeds in Export persona > Slices settings. It exports always without bleeds. Thanks! Petr

Ok, will post this in a separate thread. Thanks

Hi guys, just a few issues with bleeds when testing 1.7.0.3: It seems that bleeds are exported only when exporting all artboards at once. When exporting individual artboard to PDF, bleeds are not preserved. I did not find a way how to enable/disable bleeds in Export persona > Slices settings. Thanks! Petr

Hello, just a suggestion for improvement. When I place an image to document with bleeds so it is overlapping artboard and then rasterise the image, it is cropped to the edges of the artboard. It would be better to rather crop the image to the edges of bleeds not to the artboard. It makes problems when exporting PDF with bleeds and the image is therefore cropped incorrectly. Thank you! Petr

Yep, below are my Export settings: And here is the PDF Output Preview (no bleeds, no spot colours): Thanks Petr

Hello, my client wants to print certain image in one spot colour only (no CMYK colours at all) and I would like to find a way how to do this in AD. I tried to create Gradient Map Adjustment layer and create simple gradient with spot colour on one side and white on the other. But when I export it to PDF, the spot colour is gone, only standard CMYK remains. Also I noticed that when I add on top of all layers an object with spot colour, it is converted to CMYK as well even if it sits on top of all layers and should remain as it is. Another odd thing I noticed when using Gradient Map Adjustment layer is that bleeds are for some reason ignored when exporting to PDF. Attached is a test file with all layers and also two exported PDFs. First one is exported when Gradient Map Adjustment layer is enabled: spot colour and bleeds are missing. The other one is with Gradient Map Adjustment layer disabled. Bleeds are there, also spot colour for the text on top of the image is there, but of course the image itself is not toned to spot colour gradient. As Gradient Map Adjustment layer does not seem to be an option, is there anything else I can try to achieve spot colour only output? Thank you for any suggestions Petr pantone-test.afdesign pantone-test-1.pdf pantone-test-2.pdf

Sounds good, thanks Walt!

Hello, just a suggestion – it would be great to somehow indicate that the text overflows the text frame especially when the "eye" icon is enabled to hide the overflowing text. For example make the "eye" icon red when there is more text that is hidden. This can be useful as I don't need to double check if all lines fit into text frames. Thanks! Petr

Hello, small feature suggestion - when moving object, sometimes the numbers showing the distance are not visible. It would be nice to solve this by offsetting the text a little bit. Thanks Petr

Thanks Matt for looking into this. I have about 800 font families installed.

Hi Matt, just to let you know, the issue with file permissions when you drag & drop file to AD window still occurs in RC1. When you drag the file to app dock icon, it works fine. But if it's just me having the issue, you can safely forget about it

Hi Matt, I tried that but the issue is the same. Cheers Petr

Hi Matt, Yes, I do have a lot of fonts installed (around 850). But disabling them (I left only System fonts enabled) did not help to resolve the issue though. I still think it has to do something with regular file permissions. Notice following behavior: 1) Open AD (1.5.5 or 1.6b11) 2) Drag .afdesign file onto the app window – error message appears: 3) Drag the same file to app icon in dock – the file is opened 4) Save the file with different filename and close it. Don't close the app. 5) Drag this file name onto the app window – now it works fine and the file is opened. 6) Close this file without saving and and try to drag and drop it onto the app window again - now it does not work for some reason You can download the test files I am using to recreate the issue here: https://cl.ly/0y1f072m2M38/test-files.zip