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You can.try and perhaps have better results, but each time I had, it was very frustating, the tool doesn't seem to take.in account transparency, like I said.

👹 Seems the evil "spread by default" option strikes again...

Hi @Tony Ennis Can you provide screenshots or a sample PDF to help understand the problem?

From experience, I found the result better when there's a solid background. If there's transparency, selection is a mess, adding/selecting more pixels than needed, and worste if the image was a JPG: you'll even select square area for compression artifacts that weren't present or visible before using "erase white paper". It's like transparency isn't taken in account.

Perhaps a Swiss symbol, but we didn't used it in France. At the time, I found funny the different symbols used for other currencies... Until € that wasn't even on our keyboards or in our fonts, and that's perhaps why we'd rather write the full name of a currency in text, keeping abreviations or symbols for tables, labels, etc.

Sorry, my internal translation app bugs sometimes, lol It should have been "landscape".

Yes, an occurences counter can be usefull, I often use this information to check if I've the same result as some earlier version. No need to search each pages.

As @Alfred said, you can begin working on a.portrait or paysage format, and once finished perhaps you'll resize, crop or modify your design to get it more interesting. Worging in AD with vectors will allow this easily.

For example, after year of proposing cover colors for a book, I found easier to propose more than one or two, to get a feeling aboyt which "color direction" the 4 clients in this project would agreed upon and accept. Using Pantone's palette of colors for the current year was simpler than looking at all the.previous publications and in the "Pantonnier" (Pantone color samples) to find new ones... Once a color/tone was selected, I propose again 4-5 colors near the one selected, unless everyone agreed unanimously for one of those first colors. Not really, but when I was drawing, I constituted some sort of "book" with full pages from magazines (mostly decoration), with again some interesting tones and color schemes. When I had a project in mind, usually with ideas about the colors too, I would check the book for an picture using those tones, and would begin with those. Today, you've got a lot of sites you can use to upload a picture/or with exsmples, and it'll give you as many colors for a palette as you need from it. Pantone, like Letraset were usefull tools (we keep on using Pantone today).

Yes, I reported the problem long ago, and.it could lead to errors when modifying tje original instead of the copy by error... and realizing this too late...

The problems of your logo are those 3 different level of text size. The baseline ("A great...") would usually be outside the logo, so it would be easy: to have a new one in few year to only use the logo when needed to use the baseline as title/header on flyers, etc. Now, with the baseline "out of the way", I would test going further... will people always call it "Breakaway Deli", or for short: "B' Deli"? If so, you can have a second version of the logo for small screens/business cards... with only "B’Deli" in the blue ellipse, and if needed or at first, the full text (Breakaway.... 1989) in the details of the app, or an "about us" page, etc.

I think you helped yourself 😁

Did you try keeping only the pages before/after this point and test again import in the apps? or copying and pasting those 2 pages in a new Word document, before importing?

Like you, I don't tend to use such feature -- and even disabled it to get "leading on full paragraph" in ID like I was used to in QXD --, but perhaps it would be usefull in a long 740 pages document where align to grid isn't essential, and I have to add last minute lines on some pages without disturbing the flow of the next ones. I usually resort to modify grid alignement and leading, tricks like different baseline shifts, until the lines are added and the page(s) visually "feel" like the other ones. But using this APub feature would need, like with the above tricks, some explanation (or margin comments) and setting rules with my coworker copy writer, so neither of us would be disturbed and avoid "what the hell is happening here???" when needing to modify more those pages later... I woudln't use it regulary, but in exceptionnal cases... if I remember the feature.

S'il n'y a pas la possibilité de l'éviter, il vaut mieux utiliser la méthode de @Joachim_L, sans oublier d'inclure un style de caractère sans césure ou de le faire manuellement. If you can't avoid it, use the mentioned method, and add no-break style around those characters too, or add it manually.

@design punch, It won't help, but nice poster!

And notice that all adjustement layers are already masks, you just need to invert them (or holding alt when adding them) and paint with white on the areas you want to affect.

And I'll add that spread PDF or printing is only usefull with rare and small documents, when the copy writer want to read and add corrections on paper where it's easier to find errors for him/her and for the layout operator to read (similar to screen rendering). But it's usefull (spreads) 1-2% times against 98-99% pages PDF in a year. When you export minimum 2-10 PDF a day, it's important.

@PixelPest And if the shapes are created in order, applying it to shape 5 would be good!

As said by fellow forumers, an interesting exercise If I had to redraw them, I would distinguish 2 ways of doing this: simple copy (like redrawing a bad logo send by a client, but I want a good result in my document): I would redraw the curves and add -- inside if needed --, other shapes with gradients or transparency to get the same result. It's a copycat work, no real brain damage... If I want to get a process and be able to apply it on other shapes, I would put my brain on it and search which features of the apps, which styles or tools can get the same result, or the closest... Doing this the 1st way can help for the second...

I also have a special partition for apps. Before doing what @emmrecs01 suggest, I would also export all my brushes, assets, etc. (I do this sometime, in case a new version cause havoc), and would do screenshots of my important export presets (mainly PDF ones), since we can't export them, and it's always a pain to loose them after a new update...

Interesting, this field is of no use for me, but it explains the problem.

+1000 At least, it should be save with the export settings, since we use them depending of intend.

That was the purpose of my comment: if the option is checked, any move, object seleted, etc. added in the history should be recorded, so it should ask it if it's not checked, I don't mind the app remembering my last click or move, whatever I did, if it doesn't modify the image or something important like layer orders, etc. the app shouldn't ask to save again (usual behavior with other apps). Yes, and I expect this behaviour in this case, since in the long run (sometime from a year later or more), the file memorizing the last name used in export or the last folder for this export -- and not the last folder for another unrelated document export --, is a time saver. This is different as proposing to save or save as in the original folder, but this feature is also important and asked. There are a lot of little improvements like those that we need, since in a productive environment, fewer clicks give you more time to do fun tasks like correcting/improving images, or simply working. Especially for features that take care of unecessary tasks or questions like: "I thought I save this document... but it's asking to save again... Should I save it again, was I doing tests and forget to close it withut saving?..." "Which name did I use to export this file? Damn, I'm again in the wrong folder... I need to go to the right folder, select an older exported file to get the name before modifying it -- carefull here, no overwriting by error --, save it, and send it..." Yes, and it should be save if those are modified, history saving or not, since export settings are important and need to be usually reuse next time, like export name for some of us. It seems I should have detailed more each point.

That's because Affiniy apps use 2 names for swatches, 1 for display in the palette, 1 for spot color.... Grrr It wouldn't be a problem if when adding Pantone swatches the display name was the Pantone one, but we need to rename them since it's a generic non-usefull name. Perhaps it's to avoid naming plates with wrong names for people using spot colors, and allow them to use personalized ones... The intend s good, but not practical in a workflow. ___ C'est parce que les appli Affinity utilisent 2 noms pour les/certaines (?) couleurs, celui affiché dans la palette, et celui d'origine du Pantone, par exemple. Ce ne serait pas gênant si en créant la couleur elle conservait son nom dans la palette, mis nous devons la renommer car ce n'est pas le cas. C'est peut-être pour permettre de personnaliser le nom des couleurs quand on utilise des références Pantone ou autre... Si l'idée est louable, elle est peu pratique pour un travail professionnel.