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Bryce

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  1. I setup large artwork for a school building front glass for perforated vinyl. The way I set it up was each window was it's own box and I merged them together using the Add function:

    Screenshot2023-07-10at1_17_54PM.jpg.41bdd8feee6652ca9a29a7965176aab1.jpg

    Then I could work with the artwork as one piece in side the groups of boxes but it wouldn't show in between the windows at the frames or the bricks. I could also simulate the semi-transparency that the perforated vinyl looks like.

    Screenshot2023-07-10at1_19_04PM.jpg.5e1963cf6a2871af236b6846126de9b2.jpg

    I got the approval and the artwork a few weeks and was easily able to split the artwork using divide function. Each window then had the artwork as it's windows shown. I then could make each one have their own artboard by using the "convert object to artboard" and then each one could be named, exported and ripped and kept in order:

    Screenshot2023-07-10at1_34_36PM.jpg.ed36e019f0f28912a3e54fd0481875a1.jpg 

    It's been several weeks and I have the next set ready to go for printing. Either I have forgotten my steps or 2.11 is broken as the function of splitting them apart now makes each blank as if it doesn't have the artwork in it like this:

    Screenshot2023-07-10at1_36_39PM.jpg.7a0754f7264937eec287a381d01e42ad.jpg

    Is there a way to download 2.1 and try it again? Am I missing a step that I was doing just fine several weeks ago?

    thanks for you help!

  2. That is exactly what I needed. ctrl+tab in Affinity 2 does the same thing as command+` in version 1

    I'm on Ventura and don't actually see how to change this in Affinity because I would prefer to the version 1 method just because that's what I've done for years as the MacOS standard.

    @thomaso I have mine setup the exact same way. In fact, the only app this does not work in (that I have checked) is Affinity 2. I have to use ctrl+tab now. 

    If there is a way to change it in v2.1 I'll try it out.

  3. @_Th - yes that old trick always worked for ID. I still do it for Affinity and it seems to help but not much.

    @MikeTO - exactly. I started there and embedded files don't total more than 5MB. Here is what that looks like: Screenshot2023-07-01at8_36_24AM.jpg.3cf6c80da556fcb77cafd02276d0b3b7.jpg

    I've tried importing the document into a new file using "Document/Add Pages from file..." and it still saves as over 120MB

    Not sure where else to try considering the files just ballon so much. Other than that, everything runs great.

  4. We create a 12 page weekly newspaper and Publisher works very well. I really like the work put in on V2.1

    Each week before we start the layout pages we clean off the previous weeks ads (mostly created in Designer and exported as PDF), update the dates on the headers and masthead. We leave a few small things on the pasteboard such as writer pictures that recur. Then save as to "clean up" the file like we did in Indesign before we switched in 2021 and it would reduce the file size. The only thing that are embedded are a few writer pictures which are about 100kb or less.

    In V. 2.1 the file sizes don't get smaller, or not much. It currently sits at about 500+ MB with nothing on the pages. All files are dropped in from Finder when we start the layout and all are linked from pictures to the ads.

    Just for reference a layout file in Indesign would be 15-40MB when completed

    AFpub 1 would be 200-300 MB range

    AFpub 2 is over 450-500 MB range and growing for each paper.

    The PDF files produced from Affinity are 35-50MB which is similar to Indesign

    Is there a "cache" in the files themselves that can cleared out? Anything I might be missing?

    Screenshot 2023-06-30 at 4.32.11 PM.jpg

  5. Pretty much it. The two bottles had the artwork placed in a square at different places to show different sides at the same time. Each of the symbols are inside a rectangle that has the warp group applied to it. This worked since the original artwork was all on one board.

  6. I have heard rumors that Adobe will finally address the warning in Acrobat this year. We'll wait and see. This is a very old restriction and the PDF standard was updated years ago but Acrobat, Indesign, Illustrator etc. have not been corrected as far as I know.

    The PDF is fine. Our RIPs recognize the data, even those that are imposed in Acrobat using Quite Imposing which is not restricted to the 200x200 size limit. They will throw the warning up and show the PDF cut off, but the data is there and it works fine in other PDF viewers.

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