Jason Ramasami

This is very strange - I tried this both ways and this works exactly as you say. I am certain it wasn't happening earlier in the week. The .clr file (see below) was what WAS exporting before. The newer 'from IOS' file is what I exported this morning. Thanks for your persistence and help. Jason Rama Maps test.clr Rama Maps Updated again from iOS .afpalette

That's the problem here - the desktop version doesn't speak the same format language as the iOS app. This needs changing or it will be an annoying workaround

Thanks for helping - much appreciated. @DM1 I have tried that Import Palette option and the files remain greyed out in the iCloud panel. @walt.farrell i attach one of the pallets below for you to look at - it was exported using desktop Publisher. Rama Maps.clr

Thanks @walt.farrell - the assets tip works a charm. Unfortunately the colour palette file is not recognised at the iPad end of things sadly. I know I can likely recreate things but I want a quick way just in case I need to import a few colour palettes in the future.

Hi (and thanks in advance) If I have set up my Mac with everything - Pallets and Custom Assets - is there a simple way of migrating all of that onto my iPad without it being a tiresome grind? It might be obvious to some but I can't see how. FWIW - I am mainly using Publisher v2 and piggy backing all my work on Designer through that. Jason (I was hoping that this process would be taken care of in some automatic background sync procedure... but I guess this was too ambitious a hope.)

I should add that the new suite are wonderful - I am definitely not intending to pile-on as some miserable old git who has nothing better to do. I love this software and feel deeply grateful for its existence. The Mac/iPad combo is a brilliant one.

Just to confirm - with the new suite of apps - this issue is still persisting. Looking forward to this being resolved as it really limits what you can do with external drives.

This is so frustrating. I have a file on an external drive that I use often. After updating to Ventura at the weekend I can't access and change it without the entire drive being ejected. I transferred the file to my internal hard drive and it works fine. There is some communication error between Publisher under Ventura that is causing some issues. Hopefully this will be solved soon.

Has this problem been solved? I am finding the same thing on Mac today.

Brilliant - it works perfectly - thank you for your answer!

I have a multipage document set up in Publisher on my Mac - I want to import to iPad and do some quick drawn edits on different pages using Designer. Currently it looks as though I can only see the first page appearing - what is the workaround that you guys are using? Thanks in advance. Jason

Thats the one - simple but opaque to me (until now). Many thanks Jason

I can't find this anywhere - feeling a little dim - how do I turn this off (permanently and temporarily) so I can judge appearance without these blue boxes in the way? Thanks in advance

I wrote such a mega long process post about my adventures developing kinetic infographics that I broke it into two parts: 1. https://saamvisual.com/process/2020/6/13/kinetic-infographics1-learnfromnotape 2. https://saamvisual.com/process/2020/6/13/kinetic-infographics2-enhancingmotion I hope some of this is useful. Affinity was present throughout.

That actually explains this pretty well.

I have mentioned this before when exporting an infographic for printing (and I don't know if it has been covered - so please excuse any unnecessary repetition). Below is an infographic I made at the weekend. It consists of numerous layers that are drawn on my iPad Pro and then organised/grouped on my Mac. I have discovered a number of times that Designer rasterises layers (presumably to cope with erase layers and various levels of complexity?). This means that when I go to a print bureau I have to export the file as a larger high res-jpeg to avoid rather artefacts. This is an unfortunate workaround. Any thoughts? better test export.pdf

I have had to subscribe to Adobe because of After Effects workflows etc. I am discovering that there are some issues with importing Designer-generated files into Illustrator. This is a sad day because I spend a lot of time making art in AD and I would like to be confident about one moving efficiently to the other. Image 1: the end piece completed in Designer. Note that it has 'erase' layers in it. It also has some imagery that is working with 'multiply' as a layer blend mode. Image 2: this has now been exported as an SVG file into illustrator: Some notes on this: a. I had to go into the layer settings and re-assign 'multiply' transparency to the shading layers. To have to manual reassign this is a pain - if there was a way of assuming that the work invested at the Designer end could translate into vector as easily as Affinity Photo does into Photoshop that would be awesome. b. Note that the life-changing 'erase' layer modes don't appear to exist within Illustrator. Am I wrong on this? Unfortunately - at the moment the only way to maintain the work is to export it as a bitmap. I hope that I am wrong about this. As I start building some After Effects rigged characters I would like to have relative freedom designing from the AD end of things rather than base my entire workflow around Illustrator etc. Any thoughts?

Mainly a bit of fun - I recorded a timelapse-with-hints process video making this image. It isn't exhaustive but it gives a structure. http://saamvisual.com/process/2020/1/15/vector-process-folding-scissors Any feedback very much welcome.

Mainly a bit of fun - I recorded a timelapse-with-hints process video making this image. It isn't exhaustive but it gives a structure. http://saamvisual.com/process/2020/1/15/vector-process-folding-scissors Any feedback very much welcome.

Thankyou.

Here you go. lost box draft v21.afdesign

Hello and thanks for reading this. Here is an infographic I have been working on. The gradient on this file renders like this (see red circle) when I export it as a pdf. Also see the bottom red area - not a gradient but something is up. But here is what it looks like while I am working on it on the Mac and iPad. This is how it renders as an image. Any thoughts? Jason lost box FINAL.pdf

No doubt others have weighed in on this topic but once I get into a bigger piece of work, being organised is absolutely essential - especially when it comes to making those tweaks and adjustments. At the moment my best method is to be very careful about grouping sections of work wherever possible and naming them - this is a lot easier on the Mac than on the iPad. I am just wondering whether there has been much thinking done on how to do this most effectively? Occasionally on my latest piece of work - in spite of being pretty careful about how I do things - I got lost a few times trying to track down things I can see in front of me. Any thoughts or helpful comments?

Further details are documented here. Blessings to you all - and thank you Affinity for a lovely piece of software.

Thankyou.