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On 9/29/2020 at 4:12 AM, Graphics Chris said:

I think we're getting a bit off topic in regards to the RIPS.  Basically there are a million and one things that can cause this issue in printing.  One person's PDF can be totally different from another person's PDF even if its the same Adobe PDF version.  The inside Metadata of a PDF and the postscript it creates will mean the difference between one working and one not working and that is all determined by many components software/driver related.

Getting back to the issue....it would be good if Affinity added the ability to rasterise a PDF dropped directly into Affinity Photo.  Apart from fixing some flattening issues, it would be good to make edits to an image created from a PDF.  I also sometimes drop a PDF into Photoshop if I need to add some complex content such as bleeds for photos or images.  But dropping a PDF into Affinity Photo CAN cause lines and boxes around text and messes with drop shadows - it makes the entire image useless to use within Affinity Photo.  And sometimes you just want to convert the whole image into a web based rasterised image.

Now it doesn't do this all the time, but will mostly do it if the text has some special text effect added to it such as drop shadows.

If you're not having this problem, lucky you.  But I experience it too many times.

I would like to cut my ties with Adobe, but this is stopping me from doing so.  Just hoping someone could tell me that Affinity Photo can drop in PDFs without incident by doing X, Y, Z.  

I totally afree

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7 hours ago, Polygonius said:

You are right. A tracer is not a tool i need permanently - and yeah, Inscape does it job great :-)

So, please keep your developing-ressources to much more "daily" stuff  

What is absolutely a "daily" stuff? For someone a tracer is not a "daily" stuff, for some other it's a "daily" stuff

For example i use daily a tracer and I would like to find it directly in Designer without need to open other programs, also if we talk about of the best tracer in the world.

Sure, if you can give to me a freeware, fastest and superb tracer, I could think to use it

I use Inkscape from the 0.7 ver. It's a great program but is really slow and unstable yet.

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On ‎30‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 5:43 PM, Hokusai said:

I do agree that it is a feature that Designer should eventually have but keep in mind that the coding required to do this is incredibly difficult. There is a reason that it took Adobe 18 years to add it to Illustrator. There are other free alternatives that you can use in the meantime while the developers work on it. It is a nice feature to have but there are other things that I'd prefer to have instead. 

 

Hokusai

Free alternative is not a solution but a placebo or excuse. I don't know why is so difficult when also Serif DrawPlus, Inkscape or other very simple programs have it.

Btw this should be a post to let Affinity know how much they are in favor of introduction of this function, not to justify their lack. This kind of comments make you lose interest

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Hi @MEB,

thank you and yes, I used Library Panel, as reported in quick guide of the free contents and as you said. You can see the Library Panel opened in my screenshot. From there I used Import Macros, but appear that error.

Can you help me also with the problem of brushes in design?

[Free Content included with 1.6 ('Till 16th November 2017)]

Good morning,

I bought 1.5 first and now the new 1.6 version of affinity photo and designer. I downloaded the new 1.6 with free contets directly from your website, but when I try to install the macros in Photo I receive an error (attached).

In A designer I import brushes but I can't see and use its.

How can I solve the problems?

Thanks

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+1 for me too