[Paragraphs being oddly divided across pages]

heh, I guess I do tend to write short paragraphs.  

Thanks though for the tip about space before/after, that works really nicely!

 

So much to learn... 

[Paragraphs being oddly divided across pages]

Ah! It was the Keep with Next that was tripping me up. Thank you so much!

[Paragraphs being oddly divided across pages]

I'm having a problem with paragraphs being split or moved to the following page when there's still ample room left on the previous page.

For reference the content was created in Mac OS Pages, exported as a .docx and then File>Placed into a text frame to flow through the document. Adjusting the baseline seemed to help a bit but there are still oddly split paragraphs and all my tinkering and Googling is getting me nowhere.

Thank in advance Obi Wan...

[Designer scaling & alignment problem]

Hi @Callum,

Thank you for reaching out. 🙂

Attached is my problem child, pasted into a new fresh document with the behavior following. I also don't know if it's related but it might be worth mentioning, unless it's just me (which it very well could be) but I can't seem to have the Move tool active and click down through the layers to select anything which has been weird and annoying. This drawing was part of another document (that I somehow managed to get huge dimensions of 52.963 in x 25.348 at 300 DPI, not sure what I did there)  where I was doing a lot of testing and learning with things like the Contour tool to make the extruded text effects I have in this so who knows what I did to break things?  😛 

Alignment Problem.afdesign

[Designer scaling & alignment problem]

It's where the blue curves stop meeting up with the red & orange curves after I do any scaling.

[Designer scaling & alignment problem]

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the idea but while setting the stroke to scale with the object worked nicely on the stars, neither that nor changing the grouping around seemed to have any effect on the alignment issue. I copied out a couple of the letters and the curves associated with them to a fresh artboard in the same document to test the groupings versus no groupings at all and so on, but got the same results as before. I've also tried creating entirely new documents both with and without an artboard and pasted it in and it still falls out of alignment. It's bizarre because none of my similar designs have had this problem. CLEARLY I've done something wonky (twice) but I have nooooo idea.

[Designer scaling & alignment problem]

I can't even Google this question 😛 

I'm having a problem that I've never had before with keeping scaled objects in alignment with Designer 2. I'm a total amateur so I'm sure it's something simple. *sigh*

For some reason, I have a group of objects/curves that when I scale the entire image up or down, they fall out of alignment whereas everything else scales as expected. I thought maybe it was how I originally created those objects but after completely rebuilding them, I have the same issue. 

In the two photos, the original is shown and the blue "rays" extending from the lettering (which has been converted to curves) is correct. But after I try enlarging the image, those blue rays start "drifting" as if (I guess) the space around them is scaling as well? You can see them falling out of alignment around the "e" "k" and "s" in the second photo but it's of course the entire image doing it. Everything else is good, the stars and their rays, the letters/curves and so on.

If it matters, it doesn't seem to make any difference wether the rays are grouped alone or with the letter/curves etc (grasping for straws there)

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance,

Eric

[Adding or merging eps files]

Thank you for this, I'll give those links a try.

 

I was sticking on the vectors as I wanted to be able to subtract it from the artwork so that the background/shirt would show through. It didn't even occur to me to try using brushes. See what I mean about being a noob?  😛 

Also, thank you for the information about the poorly parsed eps files, that makes a lot of sense and I'm glad to know that I wasn't missing something obvious.

[Adding or merging eps files]

Hi there, near total noob here...

I'm being duly challenged with eps files used for textures and I'm guessing there has to be a better way than what I've been trying. I've bought some grunge textures from creative market and wound up with eps files for each texture which consists of multiple groups with each containing hundreds, if not thousands of layers with one curve (like a single speck) per layer. Not exactly helpful for pasting into another drawing.

On the smaller files I can start adding the shapes together until I get to a single layer that I can copy & paste but for the larger files, Affinity can't seem to Add hundreds of layers/curves together, it just sits there when I click the Add button. It's not totally surprising as trying to manipulate hundreds or thousands of items at a time would choke just about anything. But trying to add them together a few dozen at a time is just way too arduous to be of any use. My end goal is trying to use these eps textures as cut outs to apply textures like simulating cracked or distressed tee shirts.

Is there a better, simpler way to make this work or do I need to lose hours trying to merge all those layers and groups? If that's the case I'd probably give up and deal with the wasted money as it's just *that* bad.  😛 

Thanks in advance!

[Overlapping curve for 3D effect?]

Thank you v_kyr! I think I found a solution with breaking the curve at certain points. This after the fact that I went ahead and made multiple separate shapes as a workaround. 😛 

[Overlapping curve for 3D effect?]

Is it possible for a single curve to overlap itself to create something of a 3D effect? In my example I've got this curve (drawn with the Pen tool) that loops and overlaps itself. Thanks to a different post, I've learned about the Layer Fill Mode > Winding (non-zero) which takes care of the cutout but the stroke/outline is still a problem. I was going to give in and rasterize it in order to just paint out the unwanted lines but since I've filled the shape with a gradient, it doesn't blend in at all. I'm also resistant to rasterizing the shape since I won't be able to manipulate it at all later if I need to do so. Or should this be made of 2 or more shapes instead?

Many thanks!