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Bryce

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  1. Acrobat Pro DC won't display or process more than 200" in a single direction from the top left corner. AI is limited to 216" or similar, but will still get cut off in Acrobat to 200". Corel, Affinity can all make PDF's much larger, which sometimes we need. 

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    This was a sample that made to be 300" long and it can't work with Acrobat. Preview sees it fine.

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    Our RIPs can process them just fine. It's just Adobe that won't adhere to the ISO PDF standards. I've put in feature requests for Adobe to fix this but it seems to fall on deaf ears.

  2. 9 hours ago, MikeW said:

    callas pdfToolbox. callas' preflight, etc, is licensed to Adobe for Acrobat.

    I will check that out. I'm trying to watch a video but the resolution is only 144p and can't make anything out.

    For imposition and numbering I would have a hard time switching as Quite is extremely powerful for cut stacks, and just numerous other things, banner labeling, and more.

    Hopefully pdftoolbox does not have the 200" limit that Acrobat has been laden with even though the PDF standards had that changed to unlimited over 10 years ago.

  3. 53 minutes ago, juliandracos said:

    Because it doesn't really answer the question.  The tutorial are common things that people who have not used the software would need to know.  As a list of topics, nothing seems new compared to PagePlus.  Previous versions of PagePlus would list the new things a new version could do that the previous versions could not. 

    My assumption, although I could be wrong, is that there are people who used PagePlus who have now used Affinity Publisher.  So that someone can point out something that Affinity Publisher has that Pageplus does not, or vice versa.  Or ideally, someone from Serif would make a nice list of things that its software offers that other software does not and post it up on the Affinity Publisher page like they did with PagePlus and its new versions. 

    First and foremost is it is a native Mac application. Pageplus was never designed for MacOS. That is huge! Artboards, multiple strokes, Studiolink, infinite document size (I haven't been able to max it out), and very smooth operation (best on Mac because of Metal).

    I had Pageplus since about 1992 (vs 2.0 I think) and it was a great product for it's time. By 2000 it was clearly dated and not keeping up just as Aldus Pagemaker was not, and it moved towards the MS Publisher way of doing things. It had unique things that I really liked but the work coming out of it was just not what prepress and printers could use without serious modifications in the PDFs.

    If you liked wizards you probably won't like Affinity Publisher or Designer. Affinity is truly for creatives who want complete control and not a bunch of templates where it inserts your information on to whichever "design" you like.

    If you like having an amazing amount of control over the entire look and feel, then Affinity is right for you.

    If you have specific tools that you want to know, just ask, and it will be confirmed for you.

     

  4. Depending on the screen you are in Black and the gray category shows up differently - and separates differently. 

    You can see here that I have 15% black selected in the "Gray" swatch. I noticed that it always uses CMY&K when in the color sliders studio when it should be just K. Now if I make my own swatch Black stays in K. If I go to edit any of the colors in Gray it shows the correct percentage in black, even though the studio shows it's not.683446578_ScreenShot2019-07-01at6_25_13PM.thumb.jpg.c47f0beb2c8bc7b8b64eae0d3924cfdb.jpg

     

    The document is in CMYK - which is what we always work in since we are a print shop. We can easily fix the problem by making sure we do not use the "Gray" pallet and just use our custom colors, but it is a little annoying knowing I can't use gray. Just having it show up two different ways in two of the sliders is puzzling.

    Can a swatch internally be listed as RGB even though it's got CMYK sliders and the document is in CMYK/8 in the setup?

    What's the answer here other than to delete the gray swatch and recreate it?

     

  5. On 6/29/2019 at 3:35 PM, gdenby said:

    New in 1.7, the ability to add multiple strokes and fills to a single curve w/o expanding stroke, or duplicating objects to layer fills one on another.

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    I use the appearance studio quite a bit but I'm wondering how do you expand the stroke so you can do the editing that Padura did? Everytime I expand the stroke so I can edit it, I get one or the other stroke, not both. You can't seem to cut the strokes at angles nor do the gradient fills line up if you just slice the line.

  6. I have found the same problem. If I crop a picture the transparency tool no longer works on that image. 

    If I do anything in the Photo Persona to the image that when they come back are labled "pixel" in layers, I can no longer use the transparency tool in Publisher or Designer persona. 

    I can still use the layer transparency but that's it.

    Pictures inside frames also do not allow the transparency tool to work as intended. 

    You can see the line with the dots showing what it's supposed to do, but it doesn't work. I think this might be a bug.

     

    I could show a video if need be.

  7. I'm working hard and heavy trying to find if Publisher is going to work for us. I'm having a problem that if I go to crop a picture I lose the stroke around the frame. This is only when the stroke is set to the outside of the frame which I think must be a bug, but maybe it's a feature. If I set the stroke to align from the center of the frame the stroke becomes half size which I don't think it should but that's only because I'm coming from the Adobe world.

  8. For most booklets/books we are using Indesign but this past week we did our first 4 page newspaper spread in Publisher just to try it out. Ran into a few things here and there but overall is succeeded nicely. 

    Almost all of our signage is done in Affinity now. 

    One thing I would like to see in Publisher, sooner rather than later, is Data Merge. In todays world data merge is extremely important for customized mail pieces.

  9. That is why it had named "inverted" in the selection. I tried placing, opening and both crashed Publisher. Opening didn't crash Designer, but it didn't open it either. It just kind of hung. I would click in the app and it wouldd just beep so I had to kill it.

    It is 12 years old logo.

    The way I got it to open was save it as an EPS but still have no idea why it would crash the program.

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    5 hours ago, Dave Harris said:

    Currently the best way is to switch on View > Show Text Flow, then scroll through the main view looking for text frames that have red circle markers on their left and right edges.

    I just spent a half an hour looking for the error on my file and when I finally found it, it wasn't missing anything. I moved the frame a little and the red dot went away. For people who have color blindness issues, I hope that we can get this changed to the program locating the frame with the problem rather than having to search for it.

     

     

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