[Adding ustom palette]

It only allows me to import Affinity file types, I think Affinity may not support this type of palette.

[Adding ustom palette]

There are versions for corel draw, and also adobe illustrator

[Adding ustom palette]

We print using a Roland VersaArt RE640 printer, which is driven by VersaWorks.

VersaWorks has it's own 'spot' colour library which has programmed colour values.

Currently using Adobe Illustrator, if we select the colour swatch RVW-PR21K, once we export the final artwork into Versaworks, we know exactly what the printed colour will be.

How do we get the Roland VersaWorks palette into Affinity?

 

Cheers

 

[Erase]

If I create a vector square, and then want to delete one of its sides, so that I then have an open path that I can join to another open path,

 

How do I do that? And how do I snap them closed?

 

 

thanks for your help and input.

[Erase]

View - Show Tools - Customise tools.

 

I have my tools in 2 columns on the left side of my workspace.

 

I want the Eraser tool in there. I can't find it anywhere????

 

Help.

 

Also, is there a way of having the 'Action' tools there, break curve, close curve, smooth curve etc. Can we not get that into the Toolbar at the top?

 

Thanks for any help

[Outlines Inlines and seperating]

I think I've figured it out. I'm going to spend some real time with it over the xmas shut down, and I'm sure I will figure out most of the answers to everything.

I'll post again once I get stuck.

 

Thanks again for the help, and quick replys.

 

Malc

[Outlines Inlines and seperating]

Is there a different process for outlining text?

[Outlines Inlines and seperating]

MEB 

 

Thanks so much for that. Really appreciated. Hopefully there will only be a few more things that I need help with, and I'm hopeful that a few days working with Affinity, and I will be flying.

 

Many thanks again.

[Outlines Inlines and seperating]

Cheers for the reply there.

 

I'm a little rusty, and quite ignorant with all of this. Desperately trying to get back up to speed with the designing side of what we do here.

 

I didn't even know that px meant pixels.

 

So, i guess what i need to find out is..........Is there away of specifying a distance measurement to an Outline or 'Inline to a path. And then 'ungrouping' the two elements, so they can be be dealt with indifidually.

 

Cheers

[Outlines Inlines and seperating]

Hi, 

 

Making a simple Recatangle as an example - 100cm x 50cm. I make this Blue (colour is irrelevant), I then go in to 'Effects', and i can see that i can add an outline to this. I also have the options 'Inside' 'Outside' 'Centre'

 

I'm interested in the Inside and the Outside.

 

However it only allows me to make a line maximum of 100px. 

 

I need to be able to do an inline, or outline to a specific measurement, lets say 65mm. But the 100px is nowhere near 65mm.

 

How can i achieve this Inside line, or Outside line to a specific unit of distance??

 

Further to that, If I can make the line to the right distance, how can i then make the 'Inside' line that I have created, become a new path that can be moved/manipulated independently of the original rectangle I have drawn?

 

Thanks

[Colour selection, quantity reduction, and management. Inline/outlines.]

Hi, total newbie to this software, and forum.

 

Looking at my xmas project being getting to grips with this software.

 

I've had a designer using Ai doing all of our graphic work over the last couple of years, and have been impressed with what she can do with it.

 

Previously when I was doing all of the artwork (which in the grand scheme of things is quite basic) I used a program called WinPCsign.

A pretty basic vector program, but it saw me well for a few years. Laterly I complimented that with a program called VinylMaster XPT.

 

Because of it's basicness, WINPC SIGN was really fast to use. Vinyl master, a lot less intuitive.

 

However, Vinyl Master had a fantastic, almost priceless tool........................

 

We manufacture 2 products that compliment each other, and are bought as a package. Half of the product is made using printed vinyl. and the other half is sublimated fabric.

 

We would design the whole package of products and once approved by the customer we would have to recolour to 2 different palettes

 

Our Artwork all gets reduced down to between 4 and 20 colours (we have 4 shades of - green, blue, pink, purple, grey, orange, yellow, a couple of browns, golds, reds, and Black)

 

So if we are working with much more complex designs, where there is lets say 10 shades of Blue, then we just simplify the artwork down to 4 shades of blue.

 

.........................the Vinyl master feature was great. If you marquee any part of the job and hit 'S' on the keyboard, you get a pop up in the centre of the screen and the box says 'Select object by colour'.

 

It then lists every colour in the portion of the job selected.

 

If we had just vectorised a piece of artwork and it picked up dozens of colours, we could then tick as many as we want and turn them all to 1 shade, select a few more, change those to 1 shade. This was great for reducing the number of colours right down. Unbelievably helpful, and helped eliminate many errors.

 

The other thing that was great about that feature is as follows (remembering we are outputting effectively to 2 final pallettes)

 

Our pallet was in 3 sections - section 1 was the initial artwork build............

 

Blk

Bl1

Bl2

Bl3

Bl4

Red

Gry1

Gry2

Or1

Or2

 

etc etc

 

Section 2 for sublimation looked exactly the same but with the letter S at the end of each swatch.

Section 3 for Vinyl printing looked exactly the same but with letter V at the end.

 

This feature made selecting all, of lets say, 'Bl2' - and then changing those elements to 'Bl2 V', or 'BL2 S', so very easy and quick and almost fool proof.

 

Can someone tell me if there is a feature like this in Affinity, and if not, how to achieve this end result easily.

 

Second, and last question for now is......In Win Sign, I have an inline and outline tool. So if I build a square on the screen 500mm x 500mm, I can easily apply an inline or outline of 100mm to that. Do I have both inline and outline in Affinity.

 

Thanks for reading, and any help on this.