benged123

Oufti, fantabulous!! It would have taken me forever to find that. Very much appreciated. I will be using it tonight.

Wonderful responses gang! Very helpful. I'm thinking I might just find some symbol-like text from the Times New Roman of the main body. These are just markers for the chapter ends. But if I use these ... which I probably got in 'symbols' and I SEE them in the output PDF ... any chance they might disappear on the way to the printer? I'm planning to embed all fonts/symbols in the PDF. I think it's already happening automatically as that's the way I set up the document (everything embedded).

There is only one thing coming up when I check the preflight before outputting. It says there are missing characters ... only the characters are there in the document, I can see them. What might this mean? What should I do?

Thank you Alfred, I'm going to study this for a bit. Very thorough ... and very much appreciated.

Just wondering -- if I want to keep the final file/format as a vector format ... is there a particular format that doesn't rasterize the image, but that can be brought into MS Word?

Love it! Thank you David. 'understand the difference between Masking (raster) and Clipping (vector)' ... this was the clue I needed, ha, and what I've been trying to understand this last day or so. Distinctions. Very much appreciated. I'm going to take a break to unfry my brain, then I'll try it.

Thank you David in Ruislip. Intriguing. Will contemplate. This may be a bit beyond my skillset (eg. 'nest the shape into the clipping position' is like a foreign language to me). I think I'll have to do some Googling to be able to follow your directions. But I will....

Aha!! Thank you kindly thomaso. I've got it now. Do you know if there is a way to keep a record of the colours chosen? E.g. in Pages, or even in Affinity Photo I think, wherever one selects a colour there is an included drop down that allows one to save a colour. So, in this case, when I'm trying to match the fill with the stroke gradients ... I don't have to copy down numbers, but can just choose with a click a previously chosen colour?

Hey Thomaso, I'm trying to use your 'assign gradient to fill and to stroke' method. I can easily get the gradient to fill on the text ... but I don't know how to 'assign' the gradient to the 'stroke'. I can't quite figure it out by your graphics. My setup seems slightly different, or I'm not understanding how you did your graphic? See attached for my setup.

I used Affinity Photo to select object in image and then remove background ... that's where i'm getting the jagged edges (on the object). I don't know how to NOT get those jagged edges. Or how to smooth them after-the-fact. In Affinity Design I can automatically work in Vector Mode ... but I've never done any editing (or selecting or removing backgrounds). Don't know if one can edit photos in Vector Mode.

I don't know if this is possible, but I selected an object in a photo, removed the background, and want to bring the object into another photo... and want to be able to do it so I don't have jagged edges? Is this possible? I'm also working with AfDesign ... so I could ostensibly work with that too. See attached example. This is the object I want to move into another photo ... but without jagged edges.

Yo thomaso, Okay. I'm just starting to try this now. Two things: would your way allow me to export without rasterizing? And ... can I output some format (that is not rasterized) that can be read by MS Word? Or PowerPoint? I think they are working in Word and mastering out as a PDF. Ben

Lovely movie anto. Zing zing zing! Terrific. Am using the technique this morning. With thomaso's suggestion I now have 3 ways to do something I thought would be impossible to do. I'm a really happy camper. Thank you anto and thomaso!!

carl123 ... got it ... this will be a totally new file. Thank you. So all is cool. And my first try with the Designer. I use the other two apps quite a bit, more so as time goes by.

I'm up in Canada. $94 CDN I think. Totally worth it. Going to get it now. Thank you for your help RC-R, really very much appreciated. Going to follow up now.