MikeW

My suggestion? Export the art--the certificate--sans names and use an application that supports merging.

Hello Dave & Crew, Any chance of supporting descriptive names in stylistic sets? I can send an updated version of the font you have of mine if you would like one to test if you desire. Mike

Oops. You are correct. I un-archived those jobs and I used an Excel function to do it. Sorry...Mike

I like it. Well designed. Out of curiosity, what needed done in Illy? Mike

I have mainly done QR codes for merged business cards & static advertisements. And at that, only a handful over the years. QR codes never lived up to their hype. For static designs--one off designs--any on-line generator is easy and ubiquitous. For a company's business card design where there are a ton to do at once, having it as part of ID's merge process made sense. For that, one just uses a formula in the spreadsheet that concatenates and fills in the field info. It's not a request I have had very often. I think there are more important fish to fry. This is certainly true for AD and for several iterations of APub. Like tcarisland, I use fonts for other codes (for product labels, part bins and the like). Perhaps unlike tcarisland, I use paid for fonts that do not need any intervention but the numbers for the code.

Swatches are fundamentally different in QXP and ID. And it makes sense for them and believe this to be true for the eventual APub. It would be a disservice to APub if it carried along the swatch model of AD. But for a design application such as AD where colors can be done ad hoc (and ought to be able to be done this way), the solution really is to include the select options from Illy. (That doesn't mean that I like the swatch options in AD. I don't. A swatch simply ought to be what is called in AD a global color.)

Hello Alex, How would a computer algorithm (that works) do anything but that behavior? In any case, I do think we are talking at cross-purposes. We evidently have a fundamental difference as to what Successful means. Which would have been nice for you to explicitly define. Gawd knows I'm slow on the uptake sometimes. Best regards, Mike

Define "successfully." Because most of what you wrote is incorrect.

Ah, thanks A_B_C. Hadn't noticed the thread's intent change.

Fractional coordinates are allowed in OpenType fonts these days. I forget what FL5 does with them in its latest/last revision, though. But rounding the coordinates of a letter that is roughly 12 points in size that has roughly 500 to 1000 whole coordinates in its width and more in its height is hardly an issue.

As regards font design, I don't believe this would ensure valid curves nor consistent design. As for general design, I also don't believe it would aid me. It is still a valid request.

That doesn't work to restore the rgb vibrancy.

As far as I know, no there isn't. It may be possible, depending upon the EPS file, to hack it so that AD can understand the color model used. Otherwise we need to await a fix for this. Serif is aware of the issue. Mike

There is nothing different in the two ICC profiles that should account for a difference in viewing, assuming same viewing conditions on the same device and applications. Mike

While the "platform" tag in the car image should mean nothing, if you are using a Mac perhaps Apple's CMS does take it into account even though it shouldn't. It is set to Microsoft (Windows). On Windows none of the Apple platform tags mean anything and the spec also has it as a read only tag. I would have to look inside the Whacked RGB profile to see what it is set to.

I got the WhackedRGB image from Gary Ballard's web site. Rather than upload it here, go to the link and review his information. The WhackedRGB image is about halfway down the page and for the browser you can move the mouse over the image and back off. http://www.gballard.net/photoshop/pdi_download/ Mike

Mine is...gotta check. I think it is sRGB on the laptop, but it is a calibrated one on the CRT desktop. Both display properly. There is nothing special about the display profile embedded in the image, other than the white point alteration and subsequent color adjustments to color correct it back to yellow. It us a version 2 profile. The whole point of this and other images of its ilk is to see color management in action. I have another image as well somewhere here. I'll upload it in a bit.

That might be because of AD forcing CMYK color conversion on EPS files.

This is when you inform the customer to supply a better version. Preferably vector, but if a bitmap (which is all that EPS file is) to provide a higher-res version.

I don't have Google Chrome installed. Neither Edge nor IE are color managed. Vivaldi: Firefox 51.01 (which this installation says is up to date)--and I did nothing special to its configuration:

A character style by nature is an override to a paragraph style. Nothing, no application, has an override button. The paragraph settings made no sense in a character style. They are being removed. Which was my main point.

I would suggest that something about the browser is amiss, R C-R. That it worked the first time but not subsequent times is odd. If you download the image, does anything in your system display it properly?

Really, it is only scripting that could make sense of the exporting as regards time savings. How about making the proper-size artboards for each glyph as you are designing? Guidelines for the baselines, x-height, cap-height, LSB/RSB, that sort of thing. Then at least the position would be proper (evidently...maybe. I don't use FF anymore than I have to). There is a method from InkScape -> FontForge, though. Got 13 minutes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP20E7fr_YQ Mike

Not that I am aware of. How well does copy/paste work with FF? (Or, does it even work properly between the two?)

Nor does APh offer all that Photoshop does...nor has all of what PS had back at PS 6 (not CS6) in the year 2000. Don't try to wow anyone--it'll come across fake. Do speak with the exuberance you demonstrate here. Leave the hyperbole for Serif's marketing team. They're, er, good at it. Like was mentioned above, talk about how it aids you in your image processing. Learn as much from the videos Serif has to offer concerning your image retouching needs. Admit you are a beginner with it and are learning even as you are presenting. Stay away (for now) from the videos that do not represent your needs. Drill into the basics until it is mostly rote by the time you present. Don't try to wing an answer to a question that you don't actually know the answer to, but instead admit you don't know and offer to get back with them.