[Can anyone recommend an acrobat pro alternative?]

Thanks for this highly interesting discussion. I am also looking for a Acrobat Pro replacement. Acrobat DC Preflight feature is the only missing link to me e.g. reliable color management and full support for ISO PDF standards.

Pitstop and pdfToolbox seems to be the only "real" alternatives for reliable print preflight jobs. However if you don't work a for a big print house, it looks like a bit over-size. PDF Checkpoint (Mac) offers some interesting but limited feature set. I am going to take a closer look at pdfToolbox.

Who's already using pdfToolbox? Any experience so far?

[Can anyone recommend an acrobat pro alternative?]

On 8/24/2019 at 10:04 PM, AffinityAppMan said:

https://pdf.wondershare.net

PDFElements is fantastic!

PDF Element does not support any preflight functionality.

[Using Callas pdfToolbox with Publisher]

I stumbled upon your highly interesting discussion while searching for a Acrobat Pro alternative. Pitstop and pdfToolbox seems to be the only "real" alternatives for reliable print preflight jobs. Both are products are used in print houses and big publishing houses. I have also tested Nuance Power PDF for Mac which is a nice but limited PDF editor. Power PDF focus is Office tasks. It lacks Preflight functionalities.

Acrobat DC Preflight feature is the only missing link to me e.g. reliable color management and full support for ISO PDF standards. I have spent so much money on Adobe CS and Acrobat DC is getting worse. With Adobe's Cloud subscription introduction, Adobe also dropped the price tag for the Acrobat DC. Adobe's Acrobat Pro 2017 single licence cost is within the same $500 price range. As I found out Adobe licensed parts of Callas preflight engine and their preflight menus look almost identical. So, pdfToolbox would be a ideal replacement.

I am going to take a closer look at pdfToolbox.

[Saving Interface Layouts]

I am also interested in saving my interface layouts.

[Affinity Designer for MacOS - 1.7.0]

Impressive release notes. Thank you. Excellent work

[Command + A Crashes Publisher]

Excellent. Yeah, crashes are gone using v.1.7.0.376 on Mac Sierra. Thank you!

[Automatically set color name based on colour value in AD]

Callum, thanks for your reply. 

Current workaround: Prior adding a new color, always delete the color swatch or rename the existing one. I don't think a checkbox would be required. If the color name has not been renamed, it should be updated based on current colour value. I hope this makes sense. It happened to me multiple times that I was using a previous color value.

Any chance that we can move this thread to the Feature Requests section?

[Automatically set color name based on colour value in AD]

I am looking for a way to set the colour name automatically based on colour value in Affinity Designer. When you change a colour value in a Indesign document, it automatically changes the colour name accordingly within the swatches window. It's a huge timesaver. 

When you add a colour to the swatches panel, Affinity applies the colour value name. However when I change a existing colour within the swatches panel, it shows the previously colour value. It looks like I have to manually change the colour value.

How can I do that in Affinity Designer or Affinity Publisher? 

[[Photo] How to activate/deactivate "simulate paper color" for Soft Proof]

I am also interested in 'Simulate Paper Color' feature. I have been using it all the time in Adobe Indesign to check how colour behaves on Yellowish oder uncoated paper.

We should move this thread to the Feature Requests section.
 

[APub and possibility of prepress checking?]

totally agree

[Affinity Photo: Trim to transparent or to a specific colour function in Photo.]

I can't agree more.

[Affinity Photo for iPad wins App of the Year 2017!]

Congratulations. well deserved 

[Polar coordinates and arcs]

I am also interested in a Polar Grid Tool implementation. 

 

 

 

 

[Looking for Polar Grid Tool in Affinity Designer]

Wow, thanks for your fast reply. Anyway, thank you for moving to the feature request section.

[Looking for Polar Grid Tool in Affinity Designer]

Hi there,

does Affinity Designer provide a Polar Grid Tool like AI? I’d like to create Polar coordinates. (see attached image). Currently the only workaround is to creating multiple circle and split and merge them.

 

Thanks,

[Affinity Photo Mac. layer is missing on PNG/JPEG/PSD export]

MEB: Thank you for getting back on my original question and your in-depth explanation. 

[Affinity Photo Mac. layer is missing on PNG/JPEG/PSD export]

MEB, thank you for your quick reply. yes, I have also uploaded both pattern layers as separate file.

 

Compatibility with Photoshop isn’t that important to me. I’d rather prefer using Affinity and export the final result. This time it was a very simple document, so re-creating the file in Photoshop wasn’t a big deal. However pattern layers should not be missing on PNG/JPG

[Affinity Photo Mac. layer is missing on PNG/JPEG/PSD export]

16 hours ago, MEB said:

Hi howdytom,
Can you please upload your afphoto document using this link so we can check the file?

 

done.

[Affinity Photo Mac. layer is missing on PNG/JPEG/PSD export]

Sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear enough with my original question. Due to tight deadlines I had to switch back to Photoshop. 

 

layer 2: it’s a bitmap (PNG file) which I attached as pattern. I’ve attached 2 screenshots. On export the pattern structure is missing

 

[Affinity Photo Mac. layer is missing on PNG/JPEG/PSD export]

Hi there,

 

I am desperately trying to export a simple 3 layer Affinity photo document.

 

• layer 1: logo
• layer 2: bitmap-pattern with 50% transparency (multiply) 
• layer 3: 100% fill color
•  

Layer 1 and 3 show up as expected. Layer is 2 missing. Looks like the export engine doesn’t support Alpha layers and are ignored. What else can I do? Is this is bug? Thank you for your help. 

[Always open images in 100% view]

I’d like get back on this topic. I am also looking for a default settings as süppel pointed out.

 

I'm not sure why they should always be opened at 100% as a default.

 

Sorry, I totally disagree on that. It’s kind of confusing that images show up blurry and pixelated as default.

 

Still, first reaction to me is what happened to the image quality? Using a keyboard shortcuts to switch the document view to 100% is an unnecessary step. If you’re working with multiple images you don’t want to do that on every image, do you? Images should be opened in the 100% view as default.

 

 

Do we already have a feature request for that?

 

[Media Browser Question]

Remove—removes the selected folder from Media Browser. The folder and contents are not deleted from your computer.

 

I used to be a Bridge user. The Affinity photos media browser is pretty responsive and useful for quick selections. I really like that, although it lacks a lot of feature compared to Bridge. Agree with Engine44, there should be a option to hide Apple iPhoto, Apple Photo collections or any predefined OS X folders completely.

[Affinity Photo: How can I trim a image to its size?]

R C-R, Thank for your in-depth and excellent explanation. I really like the Affinity Community. Great and responsive support.

[Affinity Photo: How can I trim a image to its size?]

 

 

This will destructively remove everything outside the cropped dimensions of the image.

 

okay, thank you. Question: Since Rasterize removes everything outside the cropped area, file size should also decrease, isn't it?

 

This is an excellent advice. My Affinity workflow is getting better and better. ;.-) excellent!

[Affinity Photo: How can I trim a image to its size?]

@R C-R

No, there’s no tolerance function in PS. It’s pretty reliable though and PS automatically trims it correctly. 

 

Indeed, color noise is an issue in low quality resolution images. PS trims to the nearby pixel on top, bottom, left and right, than it stops. In this case I am manually cropping the image file.