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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from ronnyb in Does anyone use Designer for doing basic layouts?
Well, you shall inform the printer what you've done. Sometimes I use the same workaround even I use InDesign. :)
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Petar Petrenko reacted to MikeW in Does anyone use Designer for doing basic layouts?
The only time I use a larger page is when I need to use a larger page for 100% scale...
There are some things I create when I need to manually place fold and cut marks and this cannot be gotten around. But even placing those in AD manually isn't difficult and if I was limited to a single vector design software, I would do so.
But for an application billing itself as professional software, work-arounds for bleed guides are a hack that in the 21st century should not be necessary.
Mike
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Petar Petrenko reacted to AuthorAuthor in 100,000 Beta signed up?! Phenomenal!
I just want to congratulate everyone who is making this maiden launch into the Windows market all the success in the world. It must surely say something about Windows designers and their craving for a fast, feature-rich, and affordable professional level program.
During the beta cycle, I have already intrigued several fellow artists and shared my "secret" with them. They might be beta testers now, too! :)
Here's an example of what got the gang in my social circle fascinated by the program. The biggest question was, "How did you do that?"
I was easy. And you people are instrumental in great work by others to shortly follow!
Get the Gold Version out soon, eh?
My Best,
Gary
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Patrick Connor in Affinity Designer Public Beta (RC2) - 1.5.0.26 (Windows)
You may say that, but I couldn't possibly comment ;)
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Bri-Toon in Create Tiles/Pattern Repeats?
Another method for creating a seamless tile is the replicate option. First, hold Ctrl/Cmd while dragging the tile to create a duplicate. Then press Ctrl/Cmd J dozens of times to make dozens of duplicates. The replicate option can also create a scale difference. See my example.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Alfred in Does anyone use Designer for doing basic layouts?
In Affinity Designer, choosing 'View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas' (default shortcut '\') toggles the visibility of everything beyond the edges of the canvas.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to gdenby in GOLD color definition
Peter_MK
Your question intrigued me. I tried to come at the question as a physics question. It appears to me that from a full spectrum of light, colors bellow 570, nanometers, blues thru greens are only slightly reflected. Between 570 and about 630, the reflectance increases almost to an average of 90%, w a rapid shift above 600. There is complete reflectance above 700, which is red.
In normal daylight, which has a strong blue component, this means pure gold reflects a slightly orange yellow. In fire light, it might appear more orange, or even red. The average color I could find from various reflectance charts seemed to be a hue of about 51 in the HSL model, and a luminance of 45, saturation 100.
But there are many other things to consider. Most gold is not pure. In manufactured objects, it is usually mixed w. other metals to make it harder, which also modifies the color. 18K gold might be part silver, or part palladium, both of which reflect differently. And the light environment changes everything. Since gold reflects almost no blue, under a blue light, would gold look like a dull grey?
Here is a story that might interest you. I went to a symposium where one of the presenters was demonstrating a method of photographing antiquities under very low light levels. He had started out making pictures in ancient Hindu temples, where the mural pigments were too fragile to be exposed to bright light. Often, the murals had gold leaf on them. He found a method to produce very long exposures in an area that was almost pitch black. He demonstrated his method using a medieval manuscript. 1st, he made the photo under dim room light that would not damage the antique document. The gold lines on the document appeared a dull yellow green, some almost brown. The other colors were much like one could see. Then, he reset his camera, closed the door to what he needed as a demonstration, and had every one leave. He stopped the process at 90 minutes, and we came back when the film was developed. The ordinary colors were a bit more saturated, but the gold was glowing as it should have been. So, what gold looks like depends an awful lot on ambient light and how the recoding device works, and how well burnished it is.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Alfred in GOLD color definition
OK, try these:
C=18 M=37 Y=81 K=06
R=194 G=145 B=33
H=41 S=70 L=44
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Nana in Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.5 - Beta 6)
Hi KipV,
To say that you are forced into using the 1.5 Photo beta is gross misleading. The disclaimer for file incompatibility between 1.4 and 1.5 versions of both Designer and Photo has been there since the initial beta realises. Serif staff have been very upfront about it, again, from the beginning and subsequent forum discussions especially after the release of Designer 1.5 beta1 (I remember Photo 1.5 beta was delayed).
Also there are discussion in the forum that Serif is releasing 1.4.4 MAS version of Photo to have backwards file compatibility with 1.5 Photo beta and also for interoperability between Designer 1.5.1 and Photo 1.4.4 MAS versions. My suggestion is that you carefully read the release notes that accompany very beta release (and also MAS releases) as they have good and informative details about the software.
I must also disagree with you that the beta's are unstable. I have been using the betas for production work mostly without any issues (apart from an earlier issue with exporting to PDF in Designer 1.5 Beta1 which was fixed in Beta2) knowing the risk with the file incompatibility. If you have been a beta tester for other software companies (try being a beta tester for Adobe), you will take your hat off for the Serif staff.
Please let's support them make a great software even greater and better that the Adobe chains of subscription will be removed from even more people.
Nana
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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from ronnyb in Does anyone use Designer for doing basic layouts?
Maybe you will find this article interesting. Please, read it to the very end:
http://www.dpiphoto.eu/dpi.htm
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Petar Petrenko reacted to MikeW in Does anyone use Designer for doing basic layouts?
As much as I like that web page and have referred others to it, there still is a couple points of misinformation on it. But in general it is a good page to refer others to.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Kelps Leite de Sousa in Affinity Designer Public Beta - 1.5.0.24 (Windows)
Nice list of fixes. Getting closer and closer to release. Great work guys and congrats on the 1.5 release for the Mac. I'm here crossing my fingers that the Windows release is also almost there, and also hoping it`ll be available in the Windows Store as well as Serif's site. I can hardly wait for the final version and the beginning of the beta for Affinity Photo :)
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Petar Petrenko reacted to MEB in Photo?
As soon as Designer is stable and ready for release...
Seriously now, there's no eta defined. I'm sure you know what happened with Affinity Publisher and how users reacted to the delay...
Hope you understand.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Mark Ingram in Draw an arrow line
How is that unbelievable or unacceptable? There are lots of features in 1.5, and they were prioritised higher than arrow heads. If we had added arrow heads at the expense of another feature, chances are, other customers would be calling it unbelievable or unacceptable that their favourite feature wasn't implemented.
We are trying hard to add useful features that our customers suggest, but they all take time, and as such some things will be done before others. Sorry you're disappointed.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to deva in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5.2 - Beta 1)
You folks are really setting a new standard for customer service!
I so appreciate that AD and AP came along and answered my needs so I could leave Adobe. Reading the beta forum, makes me even more glad!
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Petar Petrenko reacted to My Strawberry Monkey in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5.2 - Beta 1)
I Love how open and honest you guys are...Despite any challenges that come along, it builds confidence in you and the software knowing how quickly you fix those pesky bugs and how accessible the team is. And that you genuinely want to create something amazing and wow your customers with each and every single update.
I know a tremendous amount of effort is being put in to keep Affinity ahead of the game and to keep your customers happy. Keep up the great work.
Allan
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Bri-Toon in Affinity Designer is not Affinity Photo
I'm looking forward to it as well, but as promised by the Serif team, the first beta will come to Windows as soon as the Designer betas are complete. They estimated that it will be done before this year is over. That's soon! :D
I can understand your struggle. I've been in an art/software slump for years, and I've been experimenting with various programs, and I just couldn't get into any. Then I realized Designer was on its way to Windows. What a shock that was. The point is, time, although is my weakness, is a very precious thing. Photo will be here before you know it. ;)
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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from Clara Montseny in Affinity Publisher
Yes, I totally agree with you. IDML is used to convert all new InDesign file formats to the previous versions. So, if implemented, all InDesign documents would be easilly converted into Publisher.
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Seneca in Affinity Publisher
Same here. Never heard of VivaPublisher before Oval mentioned it on this forum. Even iCalamus escaped my attention in spite of me being in the publishing business for donkeys years.
I have subscribed to their (VivaPublisher) newsletter, asked for more information about its Scripting engine, which pricked my ears when I read about it, and guess what, never heard from them since. So, they either don't care or have a very small team and cannot cope.
But I concur with what Petar is saying. I hope that the Affinity team is willing to test all these programs and make their own stamp on all these features when working on the Publisher.
Regards
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Jens Krebs in Affinity Publisher
Another almost unknown layout software is Ragtime, also developed in Germany. For some reason, german companies seem to have issues with their marketing and with getting their, mostly excellent, software out there.
Another example that comes to mind is Photoline, a pro-level competitor to PhotoShop that almost nobody knows off, they also have been in business since the 1990s.
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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from Jens Krebs in Affinity Publisher
The one-and-only was Calamus (Atari, PC) https://www.calamus.net/calamus/features_rip.php, not iCalamus (MacOS). The main idea of the (i)Calamus team is to build main application and then wait for third party software developers to make plug-ins for them. The main app is not so expencive (cca 100 EUR), but with plug-ins the PC version is 2000+ EUR. It is all-in-one app: bitmap, vector, DTP, even soft RIP [ Calamus SL owns a very save technology for output of complex publishing documents: SoftRipping®. This way Calamus prepares each single dot of each single page in your Calamus computer. Output is not controlled by external PostScript RIPs in your laser printer, typesetter or a digital RIP in China. Screen output and print output in Calamus uses the same engine (with different output hardware resolutions, of course). So Calamus offers real WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) in the physical resolution of your output machine or even higher resolution. This garanties a new quality in production.]
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Petar Petrenko reacted to mac_heibu in Affinity Publisher
I know Calamus very well, because I worked with it for many years. Calamus was, and in many respects still is, a unbelievable piece of software. But I wrote here – and I ment it so – about iCalamus, engineered from (partially) the same team, what in my eyes is a highly sophisticated and powerful publishing application. The iCalamus team never ever has been waiting for 3rd party extensions, its a fully featured, easy to use publisher with professional intentions.
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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from Clara Montseny in Affinity Publisher
It would be very nice if the Affinity team decides to include some of the VivaDesigner features.Some of them are extremely nice abd usefull.
vivadesigner7-comparison.pdf
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Petar Petrenko reacted to Oval in Affinity Publisher
Hm, what is wrong with others like VivaDesigner? :(
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Petar Petrenko got a reaction from Bikerbudmatt in Affinity Publisher
Yes, I totally agree with you. IDML is used to convert all new InDesign file formats to the previous versions. So, if implemented, all InDesign documents would be easilly converted into Publisher.
