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I have to sometimes make tables in AI with data taken from Excel, and AI does a good job of taking Excel cell data and populating it in AI, given they are in the same visual format. What I mean is if I have 2 columns of Excel data and I create a text frame with tabs then they show up correctly in AI. I tried this in AD and it didn't do it. Just curious to see if this is on anyone's radar. Seems like a long shot I know but never hurts to ask!!

I have a layered afdesign CMYK file that I needed to export as pdf then print but in every mode I chose the color was off. I tried for print, for export, probably every setting until I tried flattened, this seemed to be the right color. I am printing on a HP Laserjet 5500. The PDF actually is opened by default in Acrobat and then printed from there. Should I be prepping my file for print a certain way to assure the color is right? Just curious why this is happening and if I need to follow a certain procedure for printing? Should I leave the layers as is then export in Export persona or should I actually rasterize and flatten manually then export? There a handful of ways one can do this. Thanks

Is there text wrapping in Designer? I keep seeing people's vague posts about whether it exists or not, or workarounds that people have tried. Please set this straight, I mean even you refer to in " Frame text is for body text with long paragraphs that wrap; ". I would assume it exists. Also I saw a post where you actually relied to a poster saying that it will be a Publisher only thing, but my question is then, why even have Frame tool if its going to be so limited, no wrapping no columns (yet I presume)?

Thanks Dave. I went back and did my own typing in AD and it works fine. I had copy pasted text from another app and it doesn't spell check that way. Maybe in a future update.

Is there really a spell checker in AD? I have tested with misspelled words and the app doesn't seem to recognize them.

Here's a link to @PaoloLimoncelli he shared with me a while back, awesome guy this is! https://twitter.com/paololimoncelli/status/618347486625796097

If you have both apps, just go back and forth between the apps with the "edit in Designer" function. Make your text on curve there and bring it back to Photo.

Is the clipart in vector? If it is maybe an import into AD will allow full editing?

Keep waiting the red x is actually button to cancel the download. Confusing I know but if you see the red X your DL has started, then its all about your internet speed. Big files so they may take a few.

I have become an Affinity fanatic since last year but I can't help to look beyond even your software for something over the top when it comes to post processing. I have recently jumped over to Macphun software to see what that side's like, and I have to admit its pretty cool! And I can't help to wonder if Affinity would ever bring something like they've done to life? Imagine all the power you guys are developing plus post processing in presets! Wow what a suite you would have on your hands! I mean I would never leave Affinity for MacPhun but after all the editing is done, what's next? Well that's what Macphun is doing. Hopefully you consider adding a new persona or even a new app to compete with them, because they can't do what you do but it sure is fun over at Macphun!

I tried the drag and drop and it always gives me an error too, if you use the import styles from the hamburger menu then you shouldn't get an error.

Not sure why it would say that, try it again, I recently updated to make sure it did not have any issues. I just downloaded it and I had no issues.

You have already found all the controls there is at the moment with regards to user interface, we believe we will see more options in a future update.

Also Global light would be good.

You can play with the settings in filters>blur>depth of field blur. This is the filter called miniaturize in the extension on Photos. Switch to from elliptical to tilt-shift to get the right effect.

Looks like the stars circles are on a standard grid and the bunny's grid is isometric. That's what I see off hand.

Maybe I'm getting old but I don't see a difference. At least not in these screenshots.

Why does 12 pt text leading appear different in artistic text than when using the Frame text tool? I can't seem to make any sense of this. Also why doesn't leading override on character panel and paragraph honor point sizes smaller than the text size? Ex. if I choose 8 pt leading on 12pt text then the next line should land on top of the first line, it does change after changing leading larger than text size as expected.

If you think I'm gonna tackle 17 different patterns in my little video, you're mistaken! I'll let everyone else come up with those solutions!

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Huh?

My job requires a full res pdf and low res version of artwork for emailing purposes, is there a way to do this at the same time at the time of export? Two artboards? One high res, one low res?

I posted a short video tutorial on creating your own seamless pattern but in raster. Look at the post "seamless raster patterns" in the tutorials section. This may help for now.

There I just copy-pasted the star then with one right arrow key press the star moved over to the other side. In the beginning I set a nudge to be the same size as the doc to allow this to be precise placement of the stars on the edges.

Would be awesome to get these results in AD/AP layer effects. Looks like PS gloss contour is missing to help this happen, also a Satin effect would be a great addition. Texture is a good one too.