[Adjusting bezier handles and won't snap to pure vertical or horizontal]

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[Adjusting bezier handles and won't snap to pure vertical or horizontal]

MEB,

Can you put this down as requested feature? I depend on this feature in AI and it is a little frustrating not being able to do it in AD. If others have a workaround I would love to hear it.

 

Thanks as always,

Chris

[Adjusting bezier handles and won't snap to pure vertical or horizontal]

Hi,

I placed my points for my shape and then adjusted the curves with the node tool. After that I highlighted the curved nodes that were broken and I clicked "smooth" button to rejoin the handles. I then wanted to adjust some to pure horizontal. Typically in the past, I just held the SHIFT ket and it snaps to the horizontal plane (or the vertical if I needed it to). When I try to do this it snaps to some obscure angle and I can't get it to snap to either 0 or 90 degrees. Any ideas? Bug?

 

Thanks

[Some more pixelation issues...now with shapes]

Just an update - FIXED!  Andy emailed me (very quick response btw) and said my problem was I had my graphic layer (the bat) set to "Normal". He said it needs to be set to "Passthrough" and that fixed the problem. No pixelation!

[Some more pixelation issues...now with shapes]

Hi MEB,

I will send a link and the file to that email address. I rendered the Pdf with no Fx applied so that is why I am so confused. I added the AD file above so anyone who wants to check it out can.

[Some more pixelation issues...now with shapes]

I created this graphic utilizing shapes (mostly ellipses) and the boolean tools (Add, subtract, etc...). I rendered it as a PDF and it is very pixelated. I am lost and don't understand what I am doing wrong. I understand that the Fx will give me pixelation until the PDF export is improved but why just plain shapes. Is it the boolean operations?

 

I've attached a screenshot, a jpeg, the PDF I exported, and the AD file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Tribal Bat_AD.pdf

Bat Graphic_ChrisP.afdesign

[Mask causing issues??]

I figured it out...Instead of using a mask, I just copied (Cut actually) the White text and Pasted-Inside the long oval-ish banner .

[Mask causing issues??]

Hi all,

I rendered as PDF and got these weird artifacts (in the dark text) and pixelation. I then removed the masked layer from the render and it looks ok. Any ideas what is going on or what I am doing wrong? I enclosed a screen shot also so you could see how I made it (if that helps).

 

Thanks

 

[Advise on workaround]

Hokusai,

My mistake then because I did not know that the drop shadows in AI or iDraw are rasterized. I was going by the resulting image that looked crisp so I thought it was a vector. 

I've used the workaround in AD of duplicating the shape or text and placing behind, then making it black and changing the opacity.  As for the dpi, in iDraw I have used 72 dpi and still got crisp drop shadows, but I always use 300 dpi for print.

[Advise on workaround]

No problem MEB. I know AI uses the Adobe PDF but I wonder what iDraw uses.  

 

Thanks again for response. I look forward to the new export code being implemented.

[Advise on workaround]

Hi,

I really like designing in AD, so much more than AI, but the PDF export issue is becoming a problem. My clients want the PDF mostly and I can't use drop shadows or other effects without them getting rasterized. AI does not do this. Even iDraw doesn't do this - it exports PDFs as clear and sharp as AI.

 

In a few cases, they said just send us the .ai file. :(    So then I have to import....etc... and bottomline...... keep AI and CC subscription ;(     Some want to .svg or .eps, so not much of an issue with AD export there. It's just this PDF thing is driving me a little crazy.

 

Any ideas how to get a crisp AD PDF where I use effects? 

[Image Fill Opacity..why it look so?]

I saw this post and I was curious about this too. I compared your pic in AD, AI, and iDraw to one with 50% opacity and I got the same results as in AI. Meaning the 50% opacity in AD and iDraw looked the same as when done in AI.

[Problem with divide and add functions]

Thanks Singuy. It seems we shouldn't have to do all that for it to work properly. Hopefully they will figure out what is wrong.

[Problem with divide and add functions]

Thanks Hokusai. I see what you mean but I don't see why it shouldn't work the way I was doing it (I've done this before a lot in AI - divide to subtract a section and then add the rest back as one shape). It seems that the Divide function does change the bezier handles ever so slightly to cause the lines. 

 

I just recreated each shape from scratch with a minimal stroke (1pt) and then used Divide, then deleted middle shape, then Add all remaining shapes, and it seemed to work and there are no gaps. Seems having a stroke is the key.

[Problem with divide and add functions]

I am creating this "leaf-like" symbol. I started with a teardrop shape and duplicated it twice, one rotating 20 degrees to the right, the other 20 degrees to the left, and it gave me the shape I wanted. Each shape was converted to curves. I then selected all the shapes, used the "Divide" function so I could delete the middle most part. Then I selected all the remaining parts and used the "Add" function. It looked ok but when I changed to a darker color I saw the gaps. I thought maybe it was just a screen artifact so I rendered a jpeg and PDF and the gaps are there. Any ideas??

 

Thanks

[Do all effects and gradients get rasterized?]

Thanks for the info Matt!

[Do all effects and gradients get rasterized?]

Forgive my ignorance about vectors but will there ever be a time when the effects will not be rasterized, say in a future update, or is this not possible (technology-wise)?

[Do all effects and gradients get rasterized?]

I was just going to say the same thing. The linear gradient layer I have has a transparent fill in one end and it got rasterized.

[Do all effects and gradients get rasterized?]

I'm playing around with some flames where I have 3 layers. Bottom is an orange color, middle is only an inner glow of a reddish orange and top is a red gradient to give base of flame some more color. Every time I render a PDF I get pixelation.

 

When I turn off the inner glow middle layer I only get pixelation toward the base where I have the red gradient. When I just render the bottom orange layer alone, everything is crisp. So my conclusion is most, if not all, effects and gradients will get rasterized on PDF export. Am I correct? If I am, is this a PDF export issue or is it something that has to be refined with AD?

 

Just trying to trouble shoot this so I know how to build things, or render things, in the future.

 

Thanks!

[Points not joining]

I checked thise links...Thank you. It seems to happen when I transform the line segment. When I don't rotate it, it seems fine. So I'm guessing its a bug.

[Points not joining]

I created a curved line, duplicated it, mirror, and repositioned it so both points line up. Snapping is on. After, I select both "snapped" points and join them. When I go to move the point I see they are not joined and I am only moving the top-most point. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[Anyone else getting this (marching ants)?]

Good point. I am using AD 1.2 bought in the Mac Store. I was not switching between the Draw and Pixel Persona - I was only in the Draw Persona. The Cmd + D did the trick. Not sure how it happened but it's gone for now. Thanks Hokusai !

[Anyone else getting this (marching ants)?]

This happened before on a project. I work on an element (in this case a simple line with a stroke applied) and then after I moved on, I get the "marching ants" border. I close the project and re-open but as soon as I start to work again, it reappears and won't go away. Has anyone else had this problem?  If not, it's probably a bug. I'v attached pic and AD file.

TeaTime_v01.afdesign

[Adding additional strokes and/or fills]

Is there a way to do this to an object or text (like offset path type of thing)?

The workaround would be just to copy layers but I was wondering if this is built in with an offset function.

 

Thanks

[Pixelated PDFs still]

Figured it out....couldn't figure out how to delete post. Sorry