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This is partly why I choose an RGB source document. At least you can then see what you will get for both colour modes by soft proofing. With a cmyk document you get the worst of both worlds, soft proof doesn't work and as you say export to rgb profiled documents is wrong except for pdf (which you can only see what it looks like after the fact). A workaround is needed by copying and pasting to an rgb document in order to get true rgb out.

I just converted the rectangle to a curve and then added an extra node to make it export as a path rather than a rectangle.

Oddly that's not what I first thought. It seems the issue is with Cricut, for some reason it doesn't like the rectangles for the "I" letters. Try the attached, I've made them as paths instead. Gemini-only-notice-sign.svg

I've seen AD do this kind of thing with SVG - it will for some reason take a single character and export it as a separate curve with a transform for positioning. If the reading program doesn't read the transform it can go awry. Can you share the svg file?

There are pros and cons to both. With cmyk source document you cannot accurately soft proof to see the rgb output ahead of time. If you want a surprise on output, use the rgb sliders to define your colours in a cmyk document then export to a pdf using an rgb profile

I tend to work in sRGB using a soft proof adjustment layer so I can toggle on/off the "what it would look like in cmyk" view. There are many other ways to go about it that might work better, it's quite a complicated area.

Like in Designer, where with the zoom tool you hold the mouse button down and moving the mouse left zooms out and right zooms in progressively.

You cannot have a CMYK png, I assume that Photoshop is opening it as sRGB.

It took me a while to reply as I've realised the error of my ways and decided to switch to Lynx as my web browser. 😀 On a serious note, do you know of any way/extension for InkScape to get "scrubby" type zoom?

It would preseve embedded profiles, but you didn't embed the profile in your export. Also, without seeing the Affinity document colour settings it's hard to know what else is happening.

What profile is your source Affinity document?

Exactly! Why have a massive panel show up with thousands of input fields when really what the user needs is to select the node tool to live edit?? - and yet that info is nowhere to be seen!! And then if you use the 'envelope distort' you get buttons next to the input fields for "edit on canvas" - no node tool required. Baffling.

It always amazes me how the people behind that can make such amazing functionality feel so painful to use. It does make me appreciate how frictionless Affinity is (in the most).

That's already possible. You can drag the stem of the central control handle or type a value into the transform panel. Edit: unless you want a non parallelogram.

Apologies for going off topic, just wanted to share the "from the source" details on this (and yes I am sad enough to have read a lot of the pdf spec). It's 14,400 "user space units", which is defined as: "(Optional: PDF 1.6) A positive number that shall give the size of default user space units, in multiples of 1/72 inch. The range of supported values shall be implementation-dependent. Default value: 1.0 (user space unit is 1/72 inch)." Prior to 1.6 it was fixed at 1/72 inch. So that 14,400 user space unit is actually very flexible and there isn't a hard-limit on "physical" page size in the actual specification (post v1.6). Support among the various readers/authoring software obviously varies, and I don't think it helps that the spec actually leaves the range unbounded.

It's a flavour of pdf that is for archival purposes. It's nothing to do with pdf-x.

PDF-X != PDF-A

Have a read about pdf-a

The latest digital presses from Xerox can do gold/silver print so you might be able to find a short run supplier to meet your needs.

This is a known bug. There's no fix for it yet. Have a search on here for borderless printing.

See what the guidelines from Amazon are. I do recall seeing a few questions on here about KDP and I think in general it can be quite a pain to deal with.

Printing to your own printer or sending off to a print company?

It's actually simpler than that. Use this approach, but once you have dragged the left edge past the right edge simply release the mouse then double click on the right hand control point.

Depends on your export format, have a look in the "more" options and look for the "matte" setting.

Or even open it in a modern browser. Avoid Windows Photo viewer at all costs as it's not colour managed.