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I do recall something about it taking a major re-write to get rid of the annoying back-ground white ghost line between vectors of the same color. I suppose that might be something delaying release. As far as dimensioning, myself, I'd rely on a dedicated app, such as a CAD package, or something like SketchUp. (btw, dimensioning lines didn't show up in that for several years, tho' at 1st the app was meant for casual users, and cost $500.)

You can also use OnyX.app. Freeware, but be sure to get the version for your OS. It is also a good system maintenance app As far as the re-sizing, you can batch process w. Preview. Open a bunch, select all, go to tools/adjust size, and change the resolution. save

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Hi, jamiesameefje, The pen tool has 4 modes, only 1 of which makes a single from 2 clicks. The other modes, as you've just learned, continue drawing until the shape is closed. Or- you press escape. The next click will draw a new pen stroke. This is hand if you are "sketching," making lines w. no fills, only strokes.

This topic was interesting to me, so I spent a few hours searching around. Nothing very good to report. I found just one other image with that letterhead. It was equally useless for manual or automatic tracing. Tried to find an old "specimen" book. There were 2 at the internet archive. One from the Cleveland type foundry c. 1890, and another from the American type foundry, c 1910. Neither had anything quite like the older US Patent Office font. A few were close, out of hundreds of examples. But no match. Check out the "Boston Black" from the Cleveland Type Foundry, pg 221. It may be possible to interpolate the good quality scans of that w. the patent office banner, and make a hand trace. Evidently, the old blackletter style was no longer common by then. From what I've found at other times, I suppose the example was from a one off design the Patent Office used for a few years. I didn't find today, or see any other time, embellished Caps like those. Any skilled calligrapher was supposed to make embellishments on the fly. Another possible guide:

! Fine work. I checked out the "staging" page. Well documented. I admire how you could work within the task constraints, and keeping within you time budget.

Didn't see the earlier postings. Scooped 'em right away. Thanks to both!

I can snap rotation centers to guides, simply by dragging it to the guide! OK, my hand must have been a mess yesterday. It was raining, and my arthritis was off the charts. Every time I dragged the center to the guides, it would end up just slightly off. Guess I couldn't even manipulate the mouse. Worked fine this morning. Checked in the transform dialog, and it was accurate to 2 decimal points. Thanks for correcting that Aammppaa.

Hi, Igull, Don't worry about the annoyance. Lots of people trying to move from AI to AD show that. Usually it is mostly a matter of learning new habits. I doubt Designer will ever work the same way as Illustrator. Basic differences in how the shapes are made and modified. There will disruptions in routine. But, you a quite right. There isn't any way as far as I can tell to snap the center of rotation to guides at present. From my experience, AD has features that AI had after 5 - 10 years. A few, well beyond that. What you describe was once nothing AI could do. Believe me, Illustrator after 10 years of admittedly ground breaking development was still not faster or easier to use than a drafting board and Letraset press ons. IMPERATIVE may have taken 30 years. If you have to have some features, at the moment it doesn't seem you have many options other than the Adobe ecosystem. Myself, the $$$$$ are not an issue. Its the subscription model, and the apparent necessity to be connected to Adobe network. Referring to an attributes picker, Designer does allow copying layer "styles," which are a combination of stroke and fill attributes. Those can be pasted as a style, just as easy as using the color picker.

Iv've tried similar things, and w/o a vector warp tool, it was fairly laborious. A classic hand made approach be to drop vertical lines, similar to the white ones in the cap. Reproduce the cap curve four times at the appropriate position for the label. Then co-ordinate the vertical hashes w. the dropped lines. Squish the numbers to fit within the

Hi, PMV, Switch your view mode to pixels, or pixels (retina) if you are on a mac. You will see the actual pixel rendering of the vectors is quite jagged. At the least, the banner will have anti-aliasing artifacts. I looked into the file a bit more, having tried saving it in various formats, and noticed the when saved as .svg, and opened in Firefox and Chrome, the letters "The Hidden Costs..." rendered clearly, while the others did not. Likewise the orange enclosing shape was a blurred mess. The letters that were blurred were still as text, while the others were vector curves, and surrounded by an fx outline. The orange line enclosure was also formed by an fx. Both were being rasterized. Change the orange vector to have a thick stroke, and give the" Data.." letters a stroke instead of the outline, you should be able to export as .svg, which all contemporary browsers support, and have something as cleans as can be expected. Both .jpg and .png will look better too, tho' have the inevitable anti aliasing artifact that are caused by converting to a pixel format.

Hi, Tinakr, Describe what you did. The post may come up in searches from other people. This topic comes up every now and then.

Hi, jimmyplaysdrums, This is an interesting thread. Of the last set, my preference is for row 3. I've looked at tarot decks, but never used them. I've only known 2 people who ever did, so I don't know if the effort on row 5 would have much response. My only divinatory use for cards is a couple rounds of solitaire in the morning to tell me if I should drink some more coffee, or maybe just pile back into bed. A suggestion. Some decks have the pips within a border. A border could be made variable, and thicker/thinner to show top and bottom. Likewise, if you wanted to inject some color beyond red & black the boarder could have that.

I recall that Corel had a feature in its vectorizer that did centerline, but the few vectorizers I've worked w. in the last few years just do outlines. That would just repeat the situation, no center strokes that can have different widths.

What I did in the last minute, just redrawing it. Easy-peesy. Drawn.afdesign

See the keyboard shortcut for your OS in the menu Select/Select All

I looked at the photologo site. Everything in the gallery was the same. A very striking photo behind a pure white and very well hand written signature. No script fonts! Most of them had the word photography on them. Without that word, most people would not immediately think "photography is what this is about." Maybe w. so many clients, the audience now responds to that without much thought. Something like that is not going to translate as a favicon. At least not easily. No photos I know if can be compressed into 16 px squares. But they do have a very fine set of initials. Essentially, this is what used to be called a monogram. The classic is Albrecht Dürer's. I have a friend who is a practicing printmaker, and it only took him 10 years to come up w. one he liked. Considering current style, is there a way you can write your initials in something like hand script, but really really smooth?

Hi, Nic727, I looked at various works from the same source. Noticed the same brush swipe w. different watercolor fills. Saw another logo that had what seemed to me to be 3 swipes of the same shape, but different sizes and different watercolor floods. Did a quick search, and found what i expected. Watercolor samples packs w. different kinds of brush work and wetness. My guess is that there is a base circle swipe being made, which can be filled by whatever watery sample may be available. I tried using a donated vector brush from the "CD-E3-Water" set I found early on in the Resources section of the forum. Gave that a blue hue. Made a pixel layer, and used a few different spray paint brushes. That I used as a mask to below for the curve shape. Wasn't very watery, so I duplicated it a couple of time, did some rotations and shape tweaks, added opacity gradients to the layers, and messed about w. the blend modes. Didn't really replicate natural media, as the spray paint pixels were not very watery, but I'll show the results.

Hi, ajharok Using designer? Select one stroke/object, and copy. The select others, use "edi/paste style." One can also select an object and "edit/create style," which will appear in the styles panel for use on any object for any document.

Hi, Boolean Games, Hang on! You dipped your toe into the pool, and now folks are pushing you out to where you'll need to tread water, or at least bob up and down. Relax. It will be fun. SunRayes.afdesign

Hi, iTosaf, AFAIK, the dimension input requires decimal fractions. 1/8" = .125. Bit of a fuss for those of use who have used rulers w. fractions.

hi, exurbanite, I just turned 68, and think I know some of what you are feeling. Can't tell you how many thousands of hours of work I've lost to dead programs, dead platforms, programs that suddenly required learning a whole new language. To the problem. Large numbers of people posting here are trying to migrate out of the subscription model. If you can save your files of as .pdf format, it is likely you can use them in the Affinity apps. So maybe you old files can be continued. I'm semi-fortunate. At this point, my hands can do computer graphics as well as going back to pen and paper. Which I avoid, because what I could once do makes what I can now do look childish. That aside... If you are scanning, some things. Work on nice smooth paper. I recently scanned a 45 year old pencil drawing that was done on whatI recall as a paper called 80 lb Bristol board. A hot pressed, coated piece of what was called tag paper. It was still nice an smooth, so the scan ended w/o any shadows from paper texture. Make your sketches as high contrast as possible. No smudgy pencil. No semi-tranperant marker. Pen or brush, and India ink. Removing flaws from those in the digital file is vastly easier than trying to find and remove a bunch of erased pencil lines. Scan at the highest resolution you can. Affinity does not have a built in vectorizer tool. There are lots out there, some free, others inexpensive and easy to use. They can often give very good results when working on clean, high contrast images. Depending on the application, smooth grey scale areas will also render well as distinct grey areas. When these are brought into Affinity (I've always used the .svg format) every area will appear as individual curve layers, as defined by the grey level. B&W, everything will be a blob for black.Grey scale, the areas may float on top of each other from lighter to darker Every detached dot or stroke will be its own layer. These can be selected one by one, or in masses, and assigned different fill colors, and strokes. Not easy-peezy, I tend to go off on tangents, unlike when I was younger, and 6 hours a day of focus was the base line.

Yes, you can. If you click on the rotation center widget in the context bar, looks like a target icon, the rotation center can be moved to the center outside the shape. When you have an item selected like a thin rectangle, one can then duplicate the shape, duplicate it, rotate, and then repeat duplicate till the arc of the rectangles is what you want.

Note, you can type in any number of cog teeth, not just what the slider allows.

Mu guess is that there are 2 nodes sitting one on top of the other, and when 1 gets the corner applied, it yields a really weird stroke moving on to the same spot.