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GeoffM33

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  1. It would be great if Affinity Publisher had the option for slug lines outside the print area as well as bleed. That way you can draw folding marks to guide the print partner for finishing jobs like book jackets. To do this currently I have to put an oversized bleed on the affected sides, draw the dotted lines in there and put up with the trim marks being a long way off the page. This may not fit on the printing plate/sheet. See attached sample of a dummy book jacket made as a theatre prop. Thanks! Kokoschka book.pdf
  2. Thanks, everyone. This is all very helpful. Thanks for all the time and effort put into your replies. I have, in parallel, posted a feature request for separate horizontal and vertical gutters settings in the feedback section. Best wishes. GM33
  3. I've been trying to set up a data merge sheet for a typical Avery label template which only has vertical gutters but no horizontal gutters. I've got a work-around suggested by forum members, but it would be nice to be able to specify horizontal and vertical gutters separately. Indeed, it would be great to be able to do this on ordinary page layouts too. See attached for an example label template from Avery. GM33 Avery_L7160_WordTemplate.pdf
  4. I am trying to set up a data merge grid for Avery labels L7160 where there are vertical gutters but NO horizontal gutters. This is a very common label feature. The data merge tool only gives gutters in both directions. Is there a hidden setting or a different method? Am I missing something? This is rather crucial otherwise the labels will fall out of alignment across the sheet. Thanks.
  5. For a basic grid repeat like a sheet of business cards it looks like it could be faked using the data merge grid set up, and dropping your design into the first cell. It then instantly propagates across the page grid. But this is only in Publisher. And it's limited to a regular grid layout. I discovered this idea by accident whilst setting up some data merged labels. Might look into it further some time. But keep nagging Serif/Affinity to come up with something, chaps!
  6. Loukash. Thanks for your comments and the useful b/w settings values. I have made a preset of that. Also for your insight into Levels Gray and Curves behaviour. Best wishes. Stay safe.
  7. Whilst experimenting with alternate ways to make a black & white version of an image I tried the live curves adjustment layer and chose the grey colour space in the curves drop-down. Adjust the curve in the usual way and the image becomes mono (but we knew that). It can then be saved out as a mono pic. Good. I then looked in the Master curves drop down and found options for "intensity" and "alpha". Alpha does not seem to be relevant for this exercise, but "intensity" has some dramatic effects. You can get some really crackling old style black & white results by juggling Master and Intensity settings. Put a selective colour adjustment (or similar) layer under the curves layer and you can further modify/target the curves results. So why am I posting this? 1. To share it, and 2. to ask what "intensity" is and why it behaves as described above. What is its official purpose? Yours, intrigued, GM
  8. Been keeping an eye on this extremely long thread, and now want to add a comment. Somewhere way back in the conversation someone said that data merge is needed in AF Publisher, BUT done much better than Adobe InDesign. Quite right. InDesign's implementation works OK for me a lot of the time but what it can't do is double-sided AND multiple records to a sheet AT THE SAME TIME. It can do double-sided VDP if it just means repeating a single sheet for each record, and can plan up multiple records across a page, but not both at once. In the studio I work in we quite often get jobs requiring data merging small sized documents like vouchers/coupons/business cards etc. Sometimes the VDP needs doing on both sides. This needs some crafty work-arounds in InDesign to get the jobs done. We used to have a very expensive Acrobat plug-in which did all this and more, including conditional logic processing to place images and so forth. Sadly we lost this capability through system upgrades and incompatibility and cost issues. Oh well... I'm not suggesting AF Pub should have all the conditional variable data processing capabilities; that would be bloat, and best left to specialist software, but the double sided, multiple records to a sheet would be a winner. So when Affinity includes data-merge, a capable, well-implemented, but not over-complex tool would be great.
  9. Thanks. Experimented and found I can't replicate the unexpected "confirm" dialogue with the original document I first found it on. This was a "normal" document with no art-boards. Tried with another document which I'd made with just one art-board and If I chose "whole document" in the save dialogue I got the "confirm..." secondary dialogue come up, BUT if I chose "Art-board 1" (say) no extra dialogue appeared and the save happened as normal. Weird that my first art-board-free file produced the "confirm..." dialogue first time round, and no longer does. I had quit and relaunched Designer between these sessions, so maybe...? G
  10. Hi, Just noticed today when exporting a job I'd done in Designer 1.7 on Mac to PDF, I've started getting an additional dialogue coming up asking for confirmation to save multiple documents to the target folder. I'm only exporting one document with one page. What is this? Have I inadvertently changed something? I can't see what. I click OK and get just the one file saved to where I wanted it. Tried it with another simple test file - same result. A mystery. G
  11. NIK plugins Dfine 2 (noise removal) & Sharpener Pro 3 now work OK as mentioned, but I experimented with Silver FX b/w converter and got the 'updating fonts' message which locks you out, needing a force quit to recover. (I've not tried the various NIK colour plugins because I've found they are unusable due to the total inaccuracy of their preview window in AF Photo.)
  12. My NIK plugins crashed the app under .127, but seems OK now under .128, but took ages to load up at first try. Whole computer struggled. (iMac mid 2010, OS 10.13.6, 3.06 GHz Core i3, RAM 4 GB - will be installing more soon.) Felt like heavy memory pressure.
  13. Will the arty brush and pen strokes textures be available in the final version of Publisher? Or will that be accessed by jumping into vector persona, and not available in a stand-alone installation? G
  14. Is it possible to display hidden characters like carriage returns, new line/line break, tab strokes, various spaces, and so forth to aid control of text? This could also be helpful in Photo, though is less important. Can this be added if it's not already there? It's available in Publisher as one would expect, but... I see there is a discussion in relation to tabs, but a wider implementation would be great. Thanks, GM
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