simoncox
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simoncox reacted to DGee in Affinity Photo 2 for macOS - (2.4.2)
why is it always so complicated to check the release notes.... it makes no sense
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simoncox reacted to patricr in import svg from lightburn
Nope, the upper left worked since that is the the home and origin of the laser. I never thought that was the problem, even after years of dealing with Postscript and image setters!
So slick to take a wood inlay file I want to make a proof of, out of LB and into Designer where I can add wood captures in Styles right into the proper areas of the design. Thanks to all for the help. Sample below.
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simoncox reacted to jweitzel in Can anyone recommend an acrobat pro alternative?
Hello Mike,
many thanks for your information! I will be a very happy person, if you are right – and my experiences of the last over 30 years have actually grown wrong. I remember little Adobe at the times of Quark 3.1, I remember humble "Quark killer application" Indesign 2, I remember the outrageous end of unmatched Aldus Freehand, I remember "postscript *clones*" like the Hercules RIP and others, which always ailed to be not an original Adobe ...
For me there remains the question of the theme starter: Why there are no professional PDF editors/prepress PDF utilities or alternatives - except those as expensive as Acrobat Pro ...? (but also: good work justifies a decent prize!).
And I'm happy, as long Serif has the things and qualitity of their great solutions in its own hands - from starting a layout 'till the printing plate. yeah!
Johannes
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simoncox got a reaction from Nazario in Affinity Publisher for macOS - 1.7.3
Still no straight through PDF placement though.
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simoncox got a reaction from risottodirk in Affinity Publisher for macOS - 1.7.3
Still no straight through PDF placement though.
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simoncox reacted to Joachim_L in Setting up a greyscale document is ...
... a mess. I like Publisher, a lot. But setting up a greyscale document is (right now) a catastrophe ... to me. But maybe I am too stupid, so here is how I start:
1. File New, Colour = Grey/8, Colour Profile = Greyscale D50.
2. Typing in some text and creating a rectangle.
3. Nice there is a Greys Palette (Swatches panel), so apply Black to the text and rectangle.
4. Export PDF for Print and opening with Acrobat Pro.
Result 1: What is meant to be BLACK is C83 M67 Y51 K95! Sending the file to a print service will end as disaster.
5. Too bad, my fault? Going back to the document having a look at the colour panel. First shown is the RGB slider with values 0,0,0.
6. So I use the CMYK slider having black only with 100%.
7. Repeat Step 4.
Result 2: What is meant to be BLACK is C74 M63 Y50 K89! Sending the file to a print service will end as disaster+1.
6. Too bad, my fault? Going back to the document having a second look at the colour panel. Picking up Greyscale from the pulldown.
7. Seriously? The value of 0 at the slider means 100% black? Value 70 means 30% black and value 0 means white? So why not.
8. Repeat Step 4.
Result 3: See Result 1.
Final conclusion: If I ever want to send a greyscale document to a print service I have to set up the document as CMYK. From my point of view this should be fixed. While you (Serif) are at it, please give "colour management" a re-design = Switching between colour spaces (spot to cmyk to rgb to spot whatever) + Iconize the colours to make it visible what colour space they are + A colour manager before export or print like in Indesign where you can define aliases for spot colours for instance or some other helpful settings. I do know this is BETA, but a stable Affinity Designer 1.65 has the same problem.
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simoncox reacted to MikeW in PDF import issues
One uses the Place command from the File menu.
But note that placing a pdf is really the same as opening a pdf at this time. That is, it's not placing a pdf the same way as InDesign, QuarkXPress, etc becuase at this point in time there is not the capability to "pass the pdf through" to a new output format.
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simoncox reacted to 000 in Appreciation post for the Publisher team
Hi,
just wanted to let you guys know how incredibly impressed I am with how Publisher is developing -- I am really happy with you adding some extra features and having a really long beta cycle rather than pushing out a software that cannot compete with others. Love the reworked master pages, the search--replace enhancements (RegEx, RegEx, RegEx!) and the new pinned objects!
It's about time that Adobe gets some competition in the pro market (there's lot's of semi-pro applications out there with tons of templates and flashy features, but nothing except Quark Xpress that can actually do what InDesign does).
Thanks for your hard work!
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simoncox reacted to MEB in Supplied PDF's with embedded fonts
Hi randomjames,
Yes, we do intend to add support for embedded fonts at some point.
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simoncox got a reaction from md_germany in File place - missing fonts in PDF
Now we have the first edition out is there any movement on this issue? I also publish magazines and pull advertising PDFs into the layout - want to get off Quark as soon as I can but this is a big issue.
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simoncox reacted to A_B_C in Show Invisible Characters
Go to Text > Show Special Characters at the very bottom of the menu. This menu point is not available in Designer, but only in Publisher so far.