woefi
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On 4/29/2020 at 8:45 PM, ashf said:
Like ODF that LibreOffice use, Adobe should make IDML a standard public format for page layout apps as editable one unlike PDF.
As I understand, IDML is a documented standard (not sure if there are any licensing issues, tho). The official documentation is downloadable at adobe: https://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/indesign/sdk/cs6/idml/idml-specification.pdf
It is pretty straight forward XML, and thus easy to read plain-text. I'm not a programmer, but I understand the basic structure and could tweak a doc in my texteditor...
So the main difficulty for 3rd party developers like Affinity lies in the function set of their programs. Everytime adobe implements a new feature which affinity does not yet have itself, they have to "interpret" it with their own tools. Which is difficult and error-prone.
Affinity already does a great job for my CS5 files, although sometimes lazy bugs occur, like converting mm to pixels (corner radius or shape). Cant speak about shiny new features of CC (2017...2019)
I think the main difference of IDML to INDD is easy to see in the Finder: The IDML is way smaller because it has no embedded thumbnails of the placed images and maybe other metadata to quickly relocate images and fonts. Unlike IDML, INDD is a binary format not plain text.
fun fact: It's a also good method to clean your documents if you notice strange bugs in decade-old and often re-used documents. (just export as IDML and reopen in ID)
- Petar Petrenko and ernst.w
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Hello, Diavel222!
As someone who never really got into doing webdesign in a program meant for imageprocessing (aka Photoshop) and primarily used Illustrator (with major pixel quality problems), I would recommend Designer for these tasks.
Of course this has much to do, how "modern" webdesign today looks like, as in the 2000s everything needed to be "pixel-perfect" but now it must be scaleable (aka all vectorshapes, svg).
The advantage of the Affinity file format is that you can reopen any .afdesign in Publisher or Photo and do specific tasks there. I sometimes use Publisher to "link" my placed images, as Designer and Photo can only embed them, although they are fine with such publisher-saved files.
On huge point for Designer in webdesign is its powerful Export Persona, with multiple output targets and -resolutions and -formats. Be it vector or pixel.
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shift-tab works for me. That means reverse but in the same _wrong_ order that tab works (latest beta)
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Wow, weird...typing or deleting Text is basic text editing and should not have to go through a menu-item. Sounds like an awkward hack.
I primarily use separated mode and I can recreate all these bugs on my machine. Although I never minimise document-windows, only Finder-windows.
edit: Just now AfPub even crashed, as I was messing around with these text decorations, like in your video. – I think it was on the seventh time I changed the stroke slider...
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I repost this Issue, as it was requested by @Patrick Connor as it has not been adressed yet:
I'm not sure if much Indesign-users are aware, that when placing a PSD or an AI, you can disable/hide layers (I use it mostly for white coloured logos with transparency).
So with my many documents I hope to bring over to affinity, I have the issue, that these disabled backgrounds creep back in my .afpub file.
This requires some extra-steps to either open it in AI and deleting the background and saving it, or convert the .ai to .afdesign (basically I'd be fine with that in the long run) but an option to choose the visible layers "on import" is still missing. (like you select the page of a multipage-ai)This is not to be reduced to a sole feature-request – I would say it is required to successfully convert an IDML to AFPub.
In InDesign CS5 you can select which layers are enabled/disabled (most useful for white logos with transparent background😞
In AfPublisher the background-Layer is "re-enabled":
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Good to know, but I just tested with the latest Beta619 (Release Candidate) and it is NOT solved yet.
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On 3/10/2020 at 2:57 PM, Gabe said:
Hi @woefi,
You forgot to attach the IDML file.
ins_SAMB_oevpzeitung_05b_rz_pr.idml
I noticed also there are similar problems with inside shadow effects, where the values are not being calculated correctly.
...btw, offset in fx is still displayed in "pixels", really? come on!
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6 hours ago, fde101 said:
I understand that the corners are not keeping the correct modes, but given that they are set to have all four rounded, if the top corners have a 1.1mm radius and the bottom corners have a 20mm radius, why is it that the top corners appear more rounded than the bottom ones in the screenshot?
I know it‘s a little confusing: the rectangle was rotated 180 degrees. 🙃
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42 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
You might: create a sample document, import your palette as a Document Palette, then export your sample as a .aftemplate file. Then start your projects using that template, rather than using a document preset.
It is always good to remember what oneself can do to improve the situation. I appreciate your helpful tip (I have to admit, most of the time I'm too lazy to create templates)
The thing is, one has to consider in which work environment you are operating:
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I have accumulated around 100 clients, of which, say, 3 to 5 have active projects that I am working on in this week. (projects=multiple documents of the same corporate design – print and screen/web)
- these projects take 1 week to 1 month, and then the client is happy for the rest of the year. Maybe one quick mini-job in-between.
- so at any time I have 3 different clients/corporate designs active, out of 50 to 100.
- you never know, maybe, after this year, the design for one client needs to change. So, do you make your templates after the job, when everything is nailed down? Or should you take the time in advance, and then update them everytime something is adjusted...
- For me, (and many workmates I met in the last 20 years) it was always easier (-> and safer!) to just take the last client-specific file you were working the year before and use it as the source of your new documents. It helped, that InDesign by default used only global colours. And Illustrator, messy but creative as it was, let you use a "clean-everything-up" script, or at least the native commands "add used colours" and "delete unused colours". There are sooo many bugs in Ai, but this always worked a ton for me.
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to compare: Ai's "add used colors" does it in the right color model, and links the object to the colour (it already knew it 1 nanosecond before)
- and as a bonus and absolutely important: if you copy this object to another document, the colour and the linking is transferred.
- bonus-extra-victory-round: If the same colour is already present in the target doc it uses the target's definition.
- this saves tons of time and lets me concentrate on the creative work instead. It reduces errors whether templates are up to date.
Affinity's apps are already the best candidate to replace the creative suite. Just fill the gaps in the basics and only then add new features.
Heck, I even wouldn't mind sacrificing stability! Adobe crashes so often, affinity is already way ahead (and auto-saves, fwiw).
- Dazmondo77 and Cealcrest
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I have accumulated around 100 clients, of which, say, 3 to 5 have active projects that I am working on in this week. (projects=multiple documents of the same corporate design – print and screen/web)
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28 minutes ago, Dazmondo77 said:
Would be great if it really worked as you would think, so if you have spot colours or any CMYK global colours it would create a document palette with just those colours
...even better if the automatically created colours would also be linked with the objects the colours were derived from. As it is standard behaviour in Ai since I can think of...
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1 hour ago, Dazmondo77 said:
Also thought I'd test out create pallet from document with a T-shirt job (two global colours) which just looked like it did a load of estimated RGB values then converted to CMYK, is this a bug?
I'm afraid to tell you but, this has never worked. I'm testing it with every new beta version since like forever...
It bugs me because all the affinity apps are really good to work with, but there are some showstopping gaps (esp. with cmyk colours and print ready pdfs) you can only scratch your head why it is not considered important. 🤨
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I tried it but could not reproduce.
In the video I see you are using your own "system-palettes" (with the small apple-icon) I also have one saved and rearranging does not crash my Publisher.
What is this overlay I see in your video on the left side in the middle? It is displayed while dragging. Is this some system plugin or only from the video recording app?
edit: I'm on Mojave. What is your system? There are some issues with catalina and 1.8release..
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I tried it with
exactly the same shapes(although I'm not sure if I had the same Z-axis hierarchy...) I can't reproduce it... for me it works. I'm on Mojave, fwiw.edit: It only shows, if you use a circle (mine had an ellipse)
So now I CAN reproduce it.
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Like @markw I can confirm, your Text isnt rasterized as I first thought, it is being converted to curves.
Hmn. Maybe a Font issue – but it happens to different fonts on your side... So maybe indeed an special issue with Catalina...
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I used your document and had no issues:
Sorry, my screenshot is in german. But it reads "only rasterise unsupported features" Do you have a screenshot of your settings? Maybe Your default ones are corrupted...
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Which export options did you choose?
Especially the setting "rasterise" should not be set to "everything" if you want text to be selectable.
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There is a known bug in the default settings. You have to re-set the value of "undo"-steps.
But I guess the 1.8.1 update should already be live by now.
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Maybe this has to do with this "undo-bug". Just wondering.
Have you already fixed your "zero undo steps"-settings in the performance tab of preferences which was introduced in 1.8.0.
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Thanks, ctrl-start did the trick.
Now, we only need the missing feature to save the panel positions (aka "workspaces") so I don't have to arrange these billion panels again on my second monitor...
(it's as if you come into your office monday morning and realize that friday afternoon the cleaning person swiped your desk and made one heap of stuff with your meticulously organised documents...)
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This has happened early in the 1.8 beta and had already been fixed.
Now, again, the preflight panel is missing.
Serious question to Affinity staff: Does anybody of you use separated mode at all? (It always seems like you don't care that much...)
Anyways, thank you for this otherwise awesome new release!
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I just tested the latest beta, (and release candidate) with various IDML-files I have and I am very happy of the improvements!
Even the radius mismatch of the rounded corners was corrected. For me, the values are now right.
What is NOT right, is if you have different corner SHAPES, please see screenshots:
IDML:
Publisher:
AfPub changed all corners to the same style, rounded, although I originally had only 2 corners rounded.
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Why do you "rasterise everything"?
Just a thought, but maybe it has to do with this setting...
(btw. your pdf looks exactly the same in my acrobatpro, with manually selecting coated F39)
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@Jon PIn case you mean me (which I'm not sure), here it is:
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@Jon P as a side note or maybe off-topic: do you know, why we cannot choose the PDF-X standard and PDF version independently? (Maybe adobe was doing it just wrong the whole time...😏)
(584) idml corner radius not quite right.
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I have to report: still NOT fixed in beta 1.8.4.651