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Oh I missed that, now if only the transform panel was a bit more intuitive. I also got the guides working too by enabling snapping in the export persona. At least I now know what I wanted to do can be done. It would be helpful if the measurement could be set to what we want and also being able to duplicate slices.

I've done some more testing and instead of creating multiple artboards I just created 1 that contained the artwork, then in the export persona I created slices and exported them as PDFs, that worked BUT when creating slices they only work in pixels and not any other measurement That is no good for me, I need to work in a specific measurement. now I did try putting guides in the document at the spacing I needed but once in the export persona you can't snap to them. We are getting there though. It would be nice if we could create Slices in any measurement & be able to snap to guides. @DWright

We use PDFs for export our files contain vector & raster images, the banners are for a major supermarket. At the moment we are using illustrator where we can use multiple art boards without copying the image multiple times, the pdfs are then imported into another file that has the cutter and camera dots for the cutting machine, they are then saved as a PDF for the printer. it’s probably not the most efficient way of doing things but it’s they way I’ve been shown. 🙂

Affinity Designer Is there a way to export a large format banner say 16000mm x 2000mm into 16 panels 1000mm width using artboards without copying the image into each artboard? I've tried but keep getting blank artboards. Thanks

I don't use In Design so can't comment on that, it would be helpful if the layers where preserved when opened in Illustrator.

When exporting a file From AD as a PDF and opening it in illustrator, the layer structure is not preserved, even if the Include Layers option is ticked. Is there any way of preserving the layer structure of the file?

No, no way to cut straight from Affinity Designer yet. You can design in AD the save as an svg or pdf then use a program like Sure Cuts A Lot for the cutting.

+1 for me too

I use this feature in illustrator everyday at work so this would be very helpful for me and also to be able to set the document size / Artboard to selected object would be nice too.

A strange bug I've found 1. Create a square 2. Shift Alt click the square to duplicate it and move it to the right keep the shift key pressed but let go of the Alt key and snap the square with the first square. 3. Whilst still pressing the shift key press the right arrow twice to move the second square. 4. Press shift Alt on the second square and move it to the right as soon as you start to do this the second square will snap back to the right edge of the first square. See video below. Snap_Back.mov

Kaffeeundsalz It can be difficult to change peoples habits if all they have known is Illustrator, I mean I keep mentioning it to my department manager but he just can not see past Illustrator. but i do keep trying. MattP I just opened an AD PDF in Acrobat and it opened perfectly so yes it is Adobe that can't make things standard across their apps. So carry on nothing to see here

If our client needs changes to artwork and we send them a pdf to pass off that we made changes to in AD then they won’t open correctly in illustrator. If PDF is an interchangeable file format then surely it should open up correctly in all applications.

The text is not behind the blue rectangle take a close look at the bottom left of the art board in my screen shot I have clicked on a type layer and the text is in the bottom left corner of the art board. If you zoom in and drag it away from the corner & scale it up there is no text and it cannot be edited.

I work for a print company and I am testing AD in the hope that we can replace Illustrator with AD, Now I set up a file as we do in Illustrator in AD and saved it as a PDF when I opened the file in Illustrator the text did not show up as shown in the image below, If you look closely you will notice we have a code in the top right corner of each artwork that is text but the main text is not showing. The text is not outlined. Artistic Text Tool used. I opened the file on our RIP station and the text showed up ok so I assume it will print correctly. In illustrator I highlighted the a text layer you will notice it has dropped to the bottom left of the artboard but I can not do anything with it. This happens in the App store version and the Beta version. Set up process We have a cnc cutter file (PDF) set up with camera dots on 1 layer and cutter lines on another, We then drag and drop artwork into the document and align it to the cutter lines then save the file as a PDF to send to our Vutek printer.

Hi I have just noticed when I drag a PDF from the Finder and into an open document the PDF doesn't respect the actual size of the PDF it opens at a smaller size. If I use the Place option then the size is correct. Also if I open the PDF then select the PDF and Copy and then paste it into another open document the size is again smaller than the original size. This happens with the Mac App store version and the latest beta version. Any idea why this happens? and can a fix be found? EDIT.. Attached a video of what happens it also happens with .afdesign file too. AD_Placed_Image_Problem.mov