Dale
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I'm being told that there is no application to open the document“Affinity+Designer+Customer+Beta.dmg.part”. This has never happened before.
That download is incomplete Jackamus, please try it again.
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I'm loving it, Dan!
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You could also try the beta, you can use it until your original trial period ends - it has improved SVG export...
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4128-affinity-designer-customer-beta-1021861/
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Where can I find more Swatches to Import i.e. Pantone or RAL?
They're not available to import that I know of twofourteen, but Pantone support is due to be added in a free update at some point in the future.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/842-affinity-designer-feature-roadmap/
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Thanks for the suggestions ronnyb, I deleted your duplicate post btw.
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Hi Jordan, this has been changed as you've described, you can check it out in the latest version downloadable via the beta section of the forums.
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I like this even more than seeing it on Twitter, bigger image means more to drink in. Lovely textures make this for me.
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If you deselect the object while transforming it, the power duplicate does not seem to remember the transforms. That could be it.
So select the first line, press Cmd+J, drag the copied object down and rotate it a little perhaps using the Transform tab - without deselecting the object - then press Cmd+J a few more times to reapply the changes to new copies.
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Power Duplicate could do this as a workaround for no Blend Jackamus. Create the first line, hit Cmd+J, make a tiny movement or rotation or both (maybe note the values before and after from the Transform panel in case you have to retry for better results) then hit Cmd+J repeatedly to make the duplicates.
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Power Duplicate (Cmd+J) makes a copy of an object or group that remembers the next transformation. After you transform the copied object/group, when you press Cmd+J again your transform will be repeated on a new copy of the selection. Keep pressing for multiple duplicates.
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Another stunner!
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Or another simpler way, join the 3 rectangles to make one editable mask applied to a copy of one of the triangles...
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How about this method?
The three weave regions are made using copies of one of the triangles, each has a vector mask applied. The vector masks remain editable.
Dale
<edit> I masked the more complex of your triangles, I could've masked the plain grey one for even easier layer structures but hopefully the naming I've applied makes it clearer anyway.
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How about changing how Arrange functions work in combo with locked objects in future to achieve this?
Lock the cutting path object, select it and the designed object group, centre-align horizontally and vertically; the filled object group moves directly over the static cutting path.
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The devs will know best but I think it's just that you have many hundreds of objects, in particular I think the top Layer 1 will inflate things unnecessarily as it contains many, many lines that you cannot even see.
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An A5 page at 300 dots per inch makes for pixel dimensions of 2480x1748, so a few hundred KB for a JPG is reasonable.
The file size differences you've reported are for 1) estimated file size of a JPG at your chosen size and quality settings 2) an .afdesign file on your hard disk, not a JPG and 3) the same .afdesign file on the web. Files on a hard disk take up numerous blocks of data so the stored file sizes can vary from system to system. And JPGs are also a very different file format to .afdesign files so those sizes will always be different however they are stored.
You can resize your document to make it smaller using Document Setup, and click the Objects will: Rescale button, or you can choose smaller output sizes using the File > Export dialog. For on-screen use, e.g. sharing online, the same A5 document at 96 dots per inch is only 794x559 pixels, so a JPG of that would be smaller than the 926KB you mentioned. However, I think the gradient fills you've used don't compress very well, so the lower res JPG file isn't as small as you might expect despite having far fewer pixels.
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I hadn't read that bit, d'oh. Yes, what Ben said!
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Yes it's easier than that, I'm sure. Forum member A_B_C created a clipping vs masking video here that should help, there are also similar Affinity-made videos around the subject on Vimeo called Layers panel drop zones, Creating a hole effect using Divide, and Non-destructive Boolean operations.
If you're still not sure how to tackle it, post your .afdesign file or some images to show what you're after and we'll all dive in to help further.
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I did a little experiment where I created a shape containing lines and a gradient.
Unfortunately I can't attach the file because it too large (1.2MB - Less than A5!).
Not sure what you're doing in your design, but I just made a 5 metre x 5 metre print document using CMYK colour model, filled with a complex shape that has conical gradient fill containing 7 key colours with beautiful smooth blends. I used the Mac App Store version of AD and the saved .afdesign file is just 111KB. Vector data is normally very small, are you adding bitmap images that are inflating file sizes?
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There is a "Scale with object" checkbox on the Stroke tab to achieve what you want there. Check it while your object is selected.
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Yes it will be in the other version eventually - that's the nature of the beta version Jackamus, testing new features, fixes, and improvements before they are released in the Mac App Store.
Smart Objects?
in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on macOS threads
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Scaling is non-destructive and I think embedded editable documents are there so far too.